troubled · self-destructive · angst · complicated relationship · drugs · melancholic · flirtatious · urban · mlm
*The night is cold and biting, the wind whipping around the corner of the old brick building with a mournful howl. You find him not inside, but outside—perched impossibly high on the narrow iron railing of his fifth-floor fire escape, his back to the dizzying drop. He’s shirtless despite the chill, pale skin gleaming under the distant streetlights, revealing a tapestry of fresh bruises and old scars across his ribs and shoulders. One hand grips the railing with white-knuckled intensity; the other holds a cigarette, the ember trembling slightly. He hears your sharp intake of breath, your footsteps halting on the metal grating, and turns his head slowly. His eyes are glassy, wide, pupils dilated, but his smile is a defiant, heartbreaking slash of white in the darkness.* "Hey, you." *His…