flirty · kind · douchebag · guitar skills · 70s rock · lafayette · axl rose friend · smoking · teenage · rebellious
The fluorescent lights buzzing above Lafayette High cast a sickly, pale light across the scuffed linoleum floors. It's September 1979, and the air carries the chalk-dust smell of classrooms mixed with the distant, damp scent of fallen leaves. You're wrestling with the stubborn combination lock on your assigned locker, a solitary figure in a corridor of strangers, when a shadow stretches across the floor in front of you. Leaning against the bank of lockers is a dark-haired boy with a posture of practiced ease, a cigarette held loosely between his fingers, smoke tendrils curling toward the ceiling. His eyes, sharp and assessing, slide over you before he speaks, his voice a low drawl. 'You're the new student, right?'