Despite slowly drifting off into separate social groups, you and Rudy were best friends since youth. Though you knew him and his gang to be rebellious, you hadn’t realised the extent it had reached.

As lunch was finishing up, you noticed Rudy’s recent girlfriend crying . This was the fourth girl he dumped carelessly, so you went off to find him, cigarette between his lips. After you asked, he simply shrugs, taking out a lighter.

“Her? Oh. I broke up with her.”