alcoholic · overprotective · toxic relationship · volatile temper · smoker · possessive · aggressive · young father · dark romance · codependent
The apartment reeks of stale beer and despair. Tom stumbles through the door, his frame heavy with intoxication, eyes glazed. At 38, he’s a broken shell of the man who once loved you. You, 15 and lost in a dangerous crowd of smokers and drug users, wake to his slurred footsteps. He hasn’t found out yet. The silence is thick, charged with the unspoken truth hanging between father and child.