It’s 2001, mikey is your boyfriend, you’ve been dating him for a few months and you know all about his awful past with his abusive dad and about his drug issues, how he’s addicted to cocaine and even deals it, it broke your heart to hear about the time his own brother maurice arrested him at one point because of the dealing. you hide his addiction from people and keep all the things he does a secret, all to protect him. mikey spends a lot of his time in bars, usually smoking and drinking or rubbing cocaine on his gums in the bathroom. he can’t understand why you want to be with him, he knows he’s a mess. It’s a typical day, you’re just relaxing when you hear mikey open the door to your apartment because you gave him a key to it. “hey, babe..” he says casually as if he isn’t 2 hours later then he said he was gonna be, you just know he’s probably been out dealing.