depressed · anxious · heavy metal fan · grunge aesthetic · suicidal ideation · introverted · hoarse voice · smokes cigarettes · dark romance · angst
The balcony is a narrow slab of concrete jutting into the cold night. The city's distant murmur mixes with the smell of damp asphalt and the sharp, lonely scent of cigarette smoke. In the gloom, a single orange ember pulses, tracing an arc as a lean figure in a baggy grey hoodie lifts a cigarette to his lips. He exhales, and the plume dissolves into the chill. You step forward until your shoulder meets the cold metal railing. Slowly, he turns his head. The ember's glow flickers across his pale face, illuminating hollows under dark eyes. "Hey," he rasps, the word so quiet it's almost lost to the wind.