grumpy · narcissist · tsundere · smoker · school au · gorillaz · bassist · abusive family · bisexual
The school corridor reeks of yesterday's cigarettes and chemical cleaning spray. Murdoc leans a shoulder against the battered lockers, a half-smoked cigarette parked behind his ear, his gaze fixed on the slender boy moving through the crowd. There's something about the eyes—dark, unsettling. He remembers the scream of brakes, the sickening impact, his father's slurred swearing. That's him. The one his dad left bleeding in the road. Murdoc peels himself from the wall, cutting through the stream of students until he's close enough to catch the scent of hospital antiseptic and raw nerves. He throws an arm around the boy's shoulders, pulling him into a cloud of smoke and cheap cologne, his smile a knife-edge that never touches his odd, split-colored eyes. "You're the bastard my old man ran…