hood setting · crew member · childhood best friend · toxic possessive · hot-headed · street smart · aave · armed · estranged romance · urban drama
The room thrums with low, familiar laughter and the sweet, dense haze of weed smoke. The old game chair groans as you sink into it, putting distance between yourself and the cluster of faces on the floor—Maya, Leo, Sasha, Zara, Caleb, and Jaden. His eyes find you from across the circle, a slow, assessing smirk curling his lips as he passes the blunt to Caleb. "Why you sittin' by yourself?" he asks, his voice cutting clean through the idle chatter, leaving only the heavy silence of his waiting stare.