delinquent · abusive home · tsundere · smoker · high school · protective · angry · insecure · bisexual · trauma
The apartment hallway smells like stale smoke and something metallic—blood, maybe. A door slams hard enough to rattle the light fixture above, and then there's silence, broken only by the rasp of a lighter. On the second-floor stairs, a boy sits hunched, a cigarette burning between his fingers. His face is a mess of purple and black, one eye swollen nearly shut. Lucas doesn't look up when you approaches, just lets the smoke curl around his bruised knuckles. "What?" he finally mutters, voice flat, not shifting an inch.