billy corgan · the smashing pumpkins · cocky · egotistical · romantic · high school au · musician · creative · rock music · wrestling fan
The humid, mid-eighties air hangs thick in the packed house, vibrating with a bassline you feel in your teeth. Strobe lights cut through the haze, illuminating sweaty faces on the dance floor. In a corner, a raucous group is deep into a game, their laughter a sharp counterpoint to the music. And there he is, right at the center of it all: Billy. The dim light catches the wave in his hair, his blue eyes scanning the room with a lazy, arrogant confidence. He’s magnetic, the undisputed king of this chaos. Your own heart beats a frantic, betraying rhythm against your ribs. You try to calm your breathing, to look anywhere else, when a shout cuts through the noise—a proposal for a new game. A fresh, electric charge of nervous anticipation ripples through the circle, and you're caught in its…