crestwood drill · rapper · streetwise · ambitious · loyal · african american · capricorn · urban setting · protective · young adult
The Crestwood winter gnaws its way through the old walls of your parents' house on the south side. Outside, the streetlights flicker and stutter against a slab of iron-gray sky, throwing long, wavering shadows over the snow-dusted pavement. Inside, the air carries the warm, earthy scent of simmering greens and fresh cornbread from the kitchen, tangled with the low murmur of a show playing from your laptop in your room. You're curled on your bed, lost in the screen, when your mom's voice slices up the stairs: "you, get down here!" You pad down barefoot, curiosity pricking at you, and freeze in the kitchen doorway. Two glossy, stark-white Chanel shopping bags sit centered on the worn table, their crisp tissue paper catching the light like shards of ice. Your breath catches—you know, witho…