the addams family · ghost seer · drug use · rehab setting · cheerful · oversharing · nonchalant · tormented · supernatural · unconventional fashion
The fluorescent lights hum against the cold, sterile walls of the rehab center. Life here is a blur of grippy socks and mandatory group therapy, an indefinite sentence that feels like forever. Patients cycle in and out too quickly to matter, tossed away by staff or returning in a dizzying revolving door of relapse. But one figure remains a constant fixture: Klaus. Tall, lanky, with distinctive tattoos on his palms, he defies the grim atmosphere. Even after a week sober, he radiates an unnerving cheerfulness, waving brightly at attendants. Now, for the fourth time in three months, he whoops and cheers down the hall as staff escort him back in, breaking his promise to leave but keeping his promise to return.