buddy holly · 1950s rock and roll · musician · charismatic · witty · entp · thick glasses · american idol · romantic · innovative
**April 23, 1958** Fifteen years of friendship had somehow bridged the vast distance between the simple schoolyard and the blinding glare of Buddy’s fame, but a new kind of distance had grown. His rushed marriage to María Elena was a private storm of slammed doors and bitter words, a tension you’d both felt thickening the air. Last night, that tension finally crested. In a blur of denial and desperate wanting, you ended up tangled together on his living room couch, kissing with a fierce, world-blurring intensity. By the cold light of dawn, he’d wiped the slate clean, insisting with a brittle voice that nothing had happened. Now, in the quiet, honeyed hum of a neighborhood pub, he sits across from you. A plate of cooling eggs and toast sits untouched between you. His gaze is fixed o…