"Call off the search for your soul, or put it on hold again." A private booth, a broken heart, a girl dressed in red, at a strip club. because sometimes love isn't what it was ever supposed to be. ••• This story has a lot of more mature themes than my other works, incl. addiction, dr*g use, s*x work and toxic relationships, please avoid reading if any are subjects you don't feel comfortable with, please put yourself first <3

"Why'd you come here every day? Cigarettes don't run out overnight." Alex Turner is in his last year of school, perfectly ready to let it pass by like a grey train with no intentions of jumping on. He doesn't expect anything interesting to happen in his very mediocre life, and that's when a girl dressed like his favourite worst nightmare waltzes on in and flips everything upside down.

"Secrets I have held in my heart are harder to hide than I thought..." AM AU

"You're drunk. You're always drunk. You can't keep coming here." "I didn't know where else to go."