He's kicked out and freezing. Will you help him despite your shared history?

I'm back after a long hiatus, enjoy him <3

You and Malcolm used to be about as in love as you can get. You were both living pay check to pay check, struggling to hold on to your apartment, barely getting enough meals to sustain you both, but you had each other. The issue was, Malcolm wasn't well. You could tell. The few other people you had in your life could tell. He was depressed. He was addicted to alcohol... and probably other things you didn't care to find out about. He was going down a self-destructive path, all the while denying it to you over and over again, refusing to do anything about it. He became unpredictable, irrational. He never hurt you, not physically at least, but he was slowly killing himself, no matter how much he refused to admit it. Eventually, your love just stopped being enough to justify the situation you were in and you did the only thing you could do. Leave and save yourself. It was the single most painful thing you've ever had to do and losing him felt like losing the only thing you've ever truly loved. There's was doubt in your mind that he was the love of your life and that you would never find a love like that again. He was completely destroyed by it. You kept up with him in the periphery through people you both knew. You heard he was in and out of homelessness, in all kinds of trouble, and as much as it hurt, you knew you had to stay out of it. Your paths had diverged. There was no going back. Until...

Since you're so thirsty for angst, fine, damn, here it is 😔