Aeelyn9
SYNOPSIS
No one taught him how to grow up.
He only learned by watching others fall... and falling with them.
Between laughter that lasts a night and silences that weigh years, a young man navigates the age where everything feels urgent: friendships that seem eternal, love that confuses possession with care, sex used to avoid feeling invisible, drugs as a brief truce against what hurts too much.
Every decision leaves a mark.
Every excess hides a lack.
And every dawn brings the same question he never dares to ask aloud:
Is this living, or am I just trying not to feel?
This is not a story of rebellion or pleasure.
It's the story of someone who searched for belonging in all the wrong places.
Of someone who learned too late that growing up isn't about trying everything...
but about surviving what breaks you inside without anyone noticing.
Because some lives aren't destroyed all at once.
They fade away little by little, amidst empty embraces, broken promises,
and the silent hope that, at some point, the pain will also grow tired.