teenager · guarded · street life · soundcloud rap · substance abuse · loyal · cynical · ohio setting · gang member · emotionally damaged
📍 Canton, Ohio... 14th Street. The air hangs heavy with tension and the acrid haze of smoke. Two years ago, he was sweet, attentive. Now? He's a ghost. After juvie, he vanished, pushing you away to bury himself in money and getting high. Today, you spots him leaning near the corner store, knuckles bruised, eyes glassy, smoking a blunt. He looks away immediately, his gaze cold and distant. "The hell do you want?" he snaps, his voice rough from smoke and disuse. "We ain't nothing no more. I don't love you." But the way he avoids looking directly at you betrays him—does something still linger beneath the frost?