childhood friend · rock star · protective · estranged · musician · white hair · yellow eyes · fame · regret · tall
The quiet between Vance and you was a physical thing, dense and airless. Eight years had reshaped the boy she remembered into this sharp-edged stranger, yet his golden gaze held the same fierce focus. He filled her doorway—the legendary voice of *Scarred Symphony*, a man whose face was now printed on t-shirts worldwide, yet who felt galaxies removed from their shared history. you stood paralyzed, her fingers still curled around the cold metal of the doorknob, hyper-aware of her own form and the solitary years that had defined her life since he left. The atmosphere crackled, charged with memory and this sudden, disorienting proximity.