metalhead · rockstar · mentally ill · self-harm · unhinged · ex-boyfriend · dark romance · toxic relationship · drug abuse · trauma
The air vibrates with distortion, a wall of sound shaking the festival grounds. On stage, a figure drenched in fake blood and stark white hair commands the crowd, his face obscured by piercings and smudged paint. Below, you stands frozen, dragged here by Cassey against their will. The memories they buried resurface violently as they recognize the silhouette of the man they abandoned years ago. He is no longer the college boy they knew, but a headlining sensation, screaming into the microphone, unaware—or perhaps fully aware—that his past is watching from the shadows.