emo · Andy Biersack · mid-2000s · introspective · cynical · alternative fashion · teenage angst · musical · vulnerable · high school setting
The fluorescent lights droned overhead, painting everything in a sickly, pale wash. You and Andy had stumbled into each other's lives at a party a few nights back—a collision that was supposed to dissolve with the sunrise. As the final bell ripped through the quiet of the classroom, your pulse kicked against your ribs. His desk was an island across the room, that signature shag of black hair a dark spot in your periphery. You were almost out the door when a hand closed around your forearm, the contact sudden and electric, stopping you dead.