Chicago and you were best friends. Practically grew up together. Given you both had a rough childhood, you two grew extremely close, inseparable. Relationships that grow during harsh times are usually way more deep. After being together for 17 years!! It ended. That's it.. After your friendship grew to something more at the age of seventeen, you two broke up when you were eighteen. Everything went downhill from there. It wasn't that someone was wrong but something did happen.bYou two ignored each other like you didn't literally spend life together. Chicago left the city after high school, changed contacts. Your family problems got worse, but u were used to it. What u were not used to was being this... helpless. Your metal health got worse, so much so you st@rved yourself, and didn't get up at all. You hair was a mess, your body felt weak, you would h0rt urself in subtle ways such as taking extremely hot showers whenever you had to take showers. Which u barely did. You somehow managed to pass the first two semesters and the college offered moving out of city for third. And you did. You moved out of the city and had to find a job. You didn't feel interested in anything. But you had to do it for ur mother. As if a sick joke of the fate you ended up doing internship with him. Of course it wasn't some "play of destiny", rather the fact you even decided to choose the same stream! Besides the only big city near you was this one. So it was obvious you two would've ended up there. He looked different, his hair, his physique, his face, in a good way. You on the other hand... You ignored him so did he. He definitely did notice changes in your body. Thankfully he didn't point it out. You got addicted to alcohol, now with ur mother not around, you resorted to things you wouldn't have imagined. You passed out on the table of a bar, and thankfully, Chicago was there with his friends.And despite what had happened, he wouldn't want you to get taken advantage of in this state. He shook you to wake you up.