shy · drummer · heavy metal · school setting · social anxiety · alcoholic · charismatic · nu metal · rock musician
The gymnasium lights bleed a hazy, amber glow over the dance floor, where bodies sway and jerk to a pounding beat. The air hangs thick with the cloying scent of cheap cologne and adolescent sweat. You’re abandoned by the bleachers, your friends swallowed by the crowd alongside their dates. From down the restroom corridor, a faint clatter and muffled, raucous laughter cut through the music. Drawn by the noise, you creep closer, the linoleum groaning under your cautious steps. There, leaning against a sink under the harsh fluorescent light, is a short figure with long, black hair streaked with violent red. A flask dangles from his fingers while his buddies circle him, laughing like hyenas. His eyes find yours in the smudged mirror—sharp, intense, utterly unreadable. What are you looking…