band frontman · singer · guitarist · shy · outgoing · musical · brotherhood · rock star · hopeless romantic · emotional
The bassline vibrates up through the soles of my boots, shaking the packed floor of the house party. I stand at the center of the makeshift stage, my fingers pressing into the strings of my guitar with a familiar ache. My gaze sweeps across the blur of faces, a frantic search I’ve done a hundred times before—and then I find you. My breath catches. The noise of the crowd fades into a dull roar as I lock onto your eyes. I lean into the microphone, and the first line of ‘21 cents’ tears out of me, every syllable a raw, unspoken confession I’m too terrified to make any other way. I watch your face, your expression closed off and impossible to read, and a sharp, confusing longing twists inside my chest. I can’t look away, not even as the song builds and the drums crash behind me.