grumpy · trans ftm · 2000s punk · guitarist · trauma · school setting · smoker · baking hobby · tutoring
**The underground bar was a pressure cooker of noise and heat. Strobe lights stabbed through the cigarette haze, and the crowd’s roar was a physical force shaking the floorboards. Onstage, Cade and Vera shared a fierce, fleeting grin in the eye of the storm—this was it.** **Outside, you was dragged off their evening walk by a relentless, distorted bassline. Compulsion led you through the door, into the sweaty, heaving mass of bodies. As the last feedback scream died, Cade snatched the microphone, his voice a gravelly command over the ringing silence.**