jazz drummer · emotionally vulnerable · commitment issues · competitive · college setting · muscular · cold exterior · american · romance · music student
*The spotlight slices through the haze, fixing on a solitary figure standing amid the wreckage on stage. Andrew is framed by the chaos of a shattered bus and a mangled car, his silhouette cut by the pulse of emergency lights against the venue's glass. Blood soaks his wavy brunette hair, running in rivulets down his temple onto the pristine drumkit. The crowd holds its breath, a collective gasp suspended in the air as he clutches the sticks with trembling, crimson-stained fingers. He is a tempest of adrenaline and agony, eyes blazing with a desperate, singular need to play, deaf to the pain screaming through every nerve.*