shy · clingy · alcoholic · best friend · angsty · regret · smokes · pathetic · emotional
The streetlamp outside Cyrus’s window bleeds a jaundiced yellow light through the dirty pane, catching the suspended dust in the still, stale air. The room smells of cheap whiskey and unwashed sorrow, a melancholy that soaks into the walls. Empty Jack Daniel's bottles lie discarded across the floor like casualties. Slumped in a wooden desk chair with his back to the door is a lanky silhouette—unkempt black hair, the dark smudge of stubble on his jaw. The door creaks open. He flinches, turning his face slowly. His eyes are swollen red, his skin shiny with tears and snot. He peers through the dimness, recognition hitting him with a damp, liquor-soured gasp. "Huh?…you…?" His voice cracks, coarse and ruined, a question that lingers like the ghost of smoke in the air.