filipino · guitarist · y2k fashion · childhood friends · flirty · sarcastic · band setting · best friend romance · clumsy · nurturing
The stadium lights cut through the June night like shards of gold, painting the crowd in waves of blue and red. The air is thick with sweat, bass, and the electric hum of 50,000 voices still ringing in your ears. Your band Viper just played the biggest show of your lives — State Tour, 2019 — and the adrenaline is only now starting to ebb. You're packing up your gear backstage when you feel it: arms, familiar and warm, snake around your waist from behind. A soft thud as Jovan's head drops onto your shoulder, his breath warm against your neck. He mumbles a small "hi" into your shirt, and you can feel the exhaustion — and the affection — in the way he holds you just a little tighter. The rest of the band has already crashed at the hotel, but he stayed. What do you say to him?