Nyctophilia (Baji x Reader)

Chapter 1

you awoke only an hour after falling asleep, your room dark and the only light now coming from the moonlight seeping in from the window.

groaning as your sleep was cut short, you opened your phone to pass some time.

remembering the contact Baji had created, you decided to text him.

Vera
11:37 p.m
hey, it's Vera
thanks again for saving my ass td😭

you exited out of the chat, scrolling through your music and finding the right song to play.

getting up from your bed, you moved to the small desk in the corner of your room and sat down on the rolling chair in front of it.

pulling a small mirror close, you brushed through your hair and put it up with a claw clip, your curtain bangs falling in front of your face.

rummaging through one of the desk drawers, you found exactly what you were looking for.

a pack of cigarettes lay in your grasp, and you opened the small package, taking one and putting it between your teeth lightly.

moving to your window, you lit the cigarette, taking a drag and blowing the smoke out of the open window.

this was the only thing your mom didn't know about; it was also the only thing she was against.

so, you had to be careful when you smoked. you didn't want her to find out, as she wouldn't take this information lightly.

although even you didn't like that you smoked, it was a bad habit you picked up from your friends that you know longer hung out with.

remembering the first time you tried cigarettes, it left a bitter taste in your mouth, worse than the smoking itself.

your friends were all sitting around, smoking and taking swigs of the alcohol bottles they brought.

they were all 15 and 16 at the time; you were only 13.

one of your friends, Sakura, turned to you.

she blew a big cloud of smoke straight into your face, making you scowl and wave a hand in front of you to clear the vapour.

"jeez, Sakura, don't do that," you said, but she only laughed.

Sakura had piercings littering her face, and when she laughed her mouth opened, showing a glint of metal on her tongue.

"come on, lighten up!" she joked, and you just stayed quiet.

"you should try it, it's cool," Sakura tempted, but you didn't want to. you knew it was bad, and highly addictive.

but she kept pushing, and you soon gave in, hesitantly taking the cigarette from her.

placing it between your thumb and pointer finger, you raised it to your mouth, closing your lips over it.

"now, take a deep breath in and just blow the smoke out," she instructed, and you did as you were told.

everything was going smoothly, before you inhaled the smoke and your lungs burned, the feeling of having to cough rising in your chest.