Chapter 1: Where The Air Hangs Heavy

Judah just wants something real. Bryan just wants to feel alive.

In the long, hot nights of Dallas, two friends drift through Korean BBQ joints, movie theaters, pickleball courts, and strip-lit parking lots-talking about life, chasing meaning, trying to stay young. Judah is 25. Calm, kind, still holding out for love. Bryan is 21. Loud, loyal, drowning himself in beer and women and all the wrong company.

They eat, shoot, bet on baseball. Loop through the same conversations. Nothing changes.

Until maybe something does.

A surreal, slow-burning story about routine, longing, and the people who feel like home-even when they're stuck.