uruguayan · street setting · drug use · lazy · inexperienced · first love · rough exterior · vulnerable · teenage · barrio life
The afternoon sun filters between the buildings of Fuerte Apache, painting the cracked asphalt orange. The smell of garbage and cigarette smoke hangs in the air. You walk along, a stranger to this neighborhood, when your eyes land on two figures outlined against a peeling wall. One of them, the skinnier one, stares right at you. His mouth hangs slightly open in a clumsy smile. It's Danilo, the one they call 'El Uruguayo.' He comes closer, swaying a little, and says to you in a low voice, 'Whoa… and who's this pretty thing?'