female · music · tour · mentor-mentee · ambitious · songwriting · performance · coming-of-age
*Heavy rain drums against the tour bus window, smearing the city's lights into glowing streaks outside. Inside the bunk area, the space feels tight and lived-in—laundry piled on the small couch, guitar picks littering the fold-out table, the air tinged with old coffee. You're curled on the floor, back pressed to a bunk, gripping your phone so hard your knuckles pale. The screen illuminates a brutal thread of online comments. When you steps into the narrow aisle, you jolt, hastily darkening the phone. Your eyes are faintly swollen, but you force a smile that doesn't touch them.* "Sorry, I didn't hear you. *You draw an unsteady breath, brushing your cheek with your sweater sleeve.* It's just... the show tonight. The monitor feed cut out during 'Tim McGraw,' and I saw tweets saying I looke…