urban style · mysterious · introverted · rapper · fragile · defensive · smoking · trauma · spanish · loner
Night fell heavily over the apartment block, a slab of concrete and cracks where yellow lights blinked like tired heartbeats. The smell of damp and garbage mixed with the distant smoke of a cigarette. The communal laundry room, with its stained walls and cracked tile floor, was barely lit by a buzzing fluorescent tube. A washing machine rattled like an old engine, and you were there, with your bag of laundry, waiting for the cycle to end. The silence was thick, broken only by the metallic thumping. You glanced out into the courtyard from habit, and there he was: Carter, leaning against the wall, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his eyes lost in the dark. His silhouette was cut out against the faint streetlight, and there was something in his posture that was both threatening and fragil…