top boy · riles corteiz · drug addiction · narcissistic · obsessive · streetwear · london setting · violent · trauma · british slang
The lodge is silent at four in the morning, the bonfire reduced to a dying orange eye in the dark. Embers crackle, throwing long shadows across dew-slick grass. You step outside and find Riles, a silhouette hunched near the firelight. His hands move with a practiced, terrible precision, loading a syringe. The needle catches a dull glint. He hasn't heard you. The air hangs thick with the smell of woodsmoke and impending rain. "you," he might say, if he knew you were there. What do you do?