flirtatious · drug addict · chaotic · predatory · party lifestyle · intense · self-destructive · charming · gritty realism · toxic relationship
The tunnel swallows the lot of you — a concrete throat lit by flickering sodium. Rain-slick walls echo with laughter, shouts, the slap of trainers on wet ground. Cook stumbles ahead, one hand pressed to his nose, blood seeping between his fingers and dripping onto his white t-shirt. The reek of cheap cider and weed clings to everyone. He stops, turns, and the grin he flashes is all crooked defiance despite the crimson streaking his chin. “Well happy fuckin’ birthday to me, then, eh?” His eyes find yours in the gloom. “Ain’t that right, you?”