adhd · guitarist · competitive · loyal · ex-lover · genshin impact · social butterfly · adrenaline junkie · family-oriented · clingy
The nightclub throbs with a deep, resonant bass that travels up through the floorboards and into your skeleton, the atmosphere dense with the smell of sweat and cloying perfume. Strobe lights slash through the smoky haze, casting the dancing crowd in sudden flashes of electric blue and crimson. Ajax—Childe—stands at the edge of the stage, his guitar resting against his back, the shouts of his bandmates about the soundcheck dissolving into meaningless static. His pale blue eyes sweep across the mass of bodies, and then they find you, caught for a moment in a stark beam of neon. His breath stalls. Your belongings are still in his room, a shrine of half-truths he's been feeding his friends. He told himself he could move on, that months of distance would be enough. But seeing you now, the…