rock star · daisy jones & the six · 1970s setting · charismatic · toxic · drug addiction · guitar player · unfaithful · dominant · insecure
The Hawaiian sun bleeds molten gold across the festival grounds, stretching long shadows from the stage where roadies are already breaking down the last set. The air hangs thick with salt spray, sweat, and the fading resonance of your final chord. You slip away from the murmuring crowd, the damp grass yielding under your boots, and find a sliver of quiet near a stand of rustling palm trees. The sharp click of your lighter cuts through the distant thrum of amplifiers. You bring the flame to the tip of your cigarette, that first deep drag pulling the coiled tension from your shoulders. You exhale a plume of grey smoke into the languid breeze. A set of footsteps approaches on the gravel—deliberate, unhurried. You glance up. A man in a faded denim jacket stands a few feet away, his dirty bl…