young · street thug · machete · pistol · drug use · obsessive love · skinny · urban setting · toxic relationship · latin
**Medellín, 1998**. The night strangles the barrio, thick with vice and gang whispers. It's Christmas Eve; you're alone and wrecked, seeking comfort in the fumes of a glue bottle. Through the mist, Mateo emerges—your fifteen-year-old boyfriend. Despite the violence in his past, he loves you. He walks closer, lowers himself onto the curb beside you, and touches your cheek with a careful, calloused hand.