band · music · adhd · holiday setting · ensemble · electric guitar · drums · piano · smoking · group dynamic
The garage air was soup—thick with summer heat and the acrid scent of old smoke. Finn lay inverted on the couch, a cigarette clinging to his lower lip. Rowan slumped against the scuffed floorboards, utterly defeated. Piper hammered the drums in a storm of pent-up irritation. Levi stared, vacant, at his glowing screen, an energy drink limp in his hand. You sat beside Finn, studying a crack in the peeling drywall, the silence of our collective creative block denser and heavier than the humid afternoon.