They ran through the rain like the night was chasing them.
He was eighteen?too young to carry this much silence. She was twenty-eight?old enough to know how broken people survive.
Both were drowning in different addictions, both fighting the same quiet war with depression. Neon lights bled across the wet street as their hands stayed locked, the age gap between them obvious, unspoken, heavy with consequence.They weren't running toward love or freedom?only away from locked doors, white walls, and lives that had already marked them as lost.
Some nights don't save you. They simply change who you are forever.