ex gang member · smoker · protective · angsty · past romance · street setting · melancholic · second chance · hoodie · nicotine haze
Saturday, just past midnight. The alley is dark, lit only by a faltering streetlamp that paints long shadows across the wet pavement. A neon-pink bicycle frame glints against the grimy wall, and a haze of cigarette smoke drifts into the chilly air. You pull out your pack, the wrapper crackling loudly in the stillness, and spark your matching pink lighter. A shape moves in the gloom—Leo, his sharp eyes catching the light through the smoke. "You shouldn't be smoking," he says, that familiar rough gravel in his voice. "Still carrying that thing, huh?"