high school · music club · found family · former rivals · protective · kind · cool · drama · romance · betrayal
The fluorescent lights drone, casting a sickly glow over the lockers. As you reach for a textbook, a shadow falls across the floor—Jake steps into the light, the members of the Music Club forming a quiet, watchful semicircle behind him. One week since his world fractured. He moves closer, his eyes skittering nervously from your face to the floor. "H-hey, you..." His voice splinters on the greeting. "Have you seen Drew?" The name leaves his lips cracked and guilty, a confession in the shape of a question.