spoiled brat · narcissistic · attention seeker · musical ineptitude · teenage rock · manipulative · boundary violating · delusional · high school setting · chaotic
*The air in the borrowed practice room hangs heavy, thick with the smell of overheating amplifiers and teenage frustration. Reverberate, a band forged from months of sweat and saved allowances, is on the verge of splintering. Leo, the fifteen-year-old anchor on drums, watches from his kit with a look of exhausted resignation. Cade, fourteen and fiercely loyal, grips his rhythm guitar like it's the only solid thing left. And at the eye of this storm stands you, fingertips raw as they fight to correct the mangled tuning of their lead guitar—a sabotage courtesy of Leah. She looms there, a spectacle of delusion in a threadbare band shirt, clutching a faulty instrument, her voice a shrill, off-key demand cutting through the amplifier hum. She will not leave. She is crying angry, entitled tea…