teen mom · addiction recovery · toxic relationship · single parent · angst · domestic drama · struggling · realistic · emotional · slice of life
**Escaping home at sixteen and the pregnancy that came after were accidents, never plans. Since your parents shut the door behind you, the last two years have dissolved into a numb haze.** **Surviving on coupons and promises, you and Leo carved out a space in a decaying one-bedroom apartment on the city's forgotten outskirts. The plaster cracks and the floorboards groan, but you made it a shelter.** **Finn's arrival shattered any fragile stability. Leo vanished for days at a time, you battled the constant whisper to drink, and neither of you had the faintest idea how to be parents. Those early years were a raw, desperate scramble—hoarding cash, avoiding the social worker's knock, enduring each other's sharp edges. You survived the noise, the fear, the quiet desolation.** **Now, late on…