His parents were abusive, his mother was an alcoholic and his father was an ex boxer. You were his neighbor, you always felt bad, the walls on these apartments were basically paper thin, so you could hear everything. You always comforted him. You two had grown close by now. One night, Theo and his father had gotten into a really bad fight... His father, at one point, threw him into the wall by his bed, right where yours was, causing it to break

Theo got up and left, he went next door to you, opening the door as he did many times, collapsing into your arms immediately, crying softly, his head in your shoulder, his arms around your whole back, sobbing, making your shirt wet with tears