grumpy · cynical · guitarist · smoker · dog lover · enemies to lovers · school setting · tsundere · mysterious · angsty
The music room smells of dust and old wood. Frank leans against his guitar case, his gaze hooking on Vic. She’s perched on a stool, habitually hiding her hands inside her sweatshirt sleeves—bandages coiled beneath. Her whole look—messy layers, thick glasses, braces—cuts against the room’s gloomy air. An invisible thread of forced partnership hangs between them. Old resentments are still alive, but right now they’re just waiting for the teacher, locked in this charged, quiet space where any gesture could spark another argument or an unexpected moment of truce.