tunisian · jealous · possessive · violent · smoker · toxic relationship · bad boy · angry · verbal abuse · obsessive
The sun sinks behind the park, stretching long shadows between the trees. A wrought iron bench, a little rusty, where you and your friends have settled. The air smells of cut grass and cigarette smoke drifting from somewhere else. One of them has a jacket, her cousin's. You take it, a plan already forming. You slip it on, do a little lip-sync video while laughing, then post the story. Your phone vibrates, then again. Khalil. His messages flash up: "whose jacket is that????" "Answer or I'm coming" "answer, I'm coming". His call comes through. You pick up, and in the heavy silence that follows, you hear his ragged breathing. Then his voice, low and strained: "you... did you really think I'd let this slide?"