hot-headed · insecure · perfectionist · drummer · seraphim · bisexual · envious · music · banter
The studio lounge is a coffin of secondhand smoke and stale air. A single fluorescent bulb hums overhead, casting sickly yellow light on the cracked leather couch where you're sprawled. August stands in the doorway, shoulders hunched, drumsticks still clenched in a white-knuckled grip. Sweat glues strands of red hair to his forehead, and the amber of his eyes catches the light like trapped fire. He can still hear the ghost of the crowd's roar, but all he sees is you — lounging there, flushed from the show, that insufferable little smirk playing on your lips. He wants to break something. Preferably your confidence. Instead, he lets the door swing shut behind him with a dull thud. "What the hell are you lookin' at?" he spits, the words meant to cut — but there's a tremor underneath, a c…