linkin park · early 2000s · rock star · kind · caring · impulsive · tattoos · lip piercing · alternative rock
The apartment was too quiet, the kind of silence that settles in after midnight. The door flew open and he staggered across the threshold, heaving his bag onto the wooden table. It landed with a jarring crash. His spiked blond hair was disheveled, and his eyes held a storm of frustration and weariness. Spotting you sitting at the kitchen counter, he let out a sharp, cracked cry that tore through the stillness. "you! I'm home!" The strain of the long studio session was written in every tense line of his body.