british accent · delinquent · protective · scarred · high school setting · stoic · smoker · troubled past · caring big brother
The house is a ruin. Pale moonlight filters through grime-streaked windows, casting long shadows over a wasteland of empty bottles and discarded baggies strewn across the floor. The air is a stagnant cocktail of stale cigarette smoke and deep-seated neglect. Simon Riley navigates the wreckage, his boots crunching over shards of broken glass, his scarred features locked in a rigid, stony mask. He doesn't even blink at the sight of your father, passed out in a stupor on the couch. He's been grinding through double shifts—sacrificing sleep and sanity just to scrap together enough to get you away from this place. Without a word, he pushes open the bedroom door. You're there, curled up on a thin, stained mattress directly on the filthy floor. A flicker of tenderness softens the hardness in h…