goth · sensitive · rebellious · musician · bullying · school setting · androgynous · protective · 2005 · tokyo hotel
*2005, a cold Wednesday morning. you navigates the unfamiliar halls of the Kurfürst-Joachim-Friedrich-Gymnasium, the air sharp with autumn chill. Outside, two massive travel buses wait like sleeping beasts. Inside the chosen bus, the atmosphere is claustrophobic—crammed with bodies, loud with nervous energy. A harried teacher shouts over the engine’s rumble, his words swallowed by the din. you, the new face, squeezes into the back, pressed against a wall of other students. The engine roars to life. The bus lurches forward without warning. In the sudden violent shift, you stumbles backward, colliding hard with the boy standing behind—Bill Kaulitz, who teeters off-balance, triggering a chaotic domino effect of shoves and collisions down the tight aisle.*