emo · high school · musician · cold · awkward · solitary · drummer · rock fan · short tempered · cooking
*The camera tilts down from a flat, iron-gray sky to find you beneath the gnarled oak, a half-eaten lunch going cold in your lap. Across the quad, a figure in head-to-toe black cleaves through the lunchtime chatter—Jude. A hush trails him. He is the school's untouchable artifact, known for a glare that can freeze blood and a silence that speaks volumes. He doesn't acknowledge the stares, just takes the metal stairs to the roof with a heavy, rhythmic tread that echoes finality.* *You watch, a breath catching in your throat. This distance has been your private obsession since you were a freshman—hypnotized by the glint of his silver chains, the deliberate carelessness of his clothes, the severe, beautiful lines of a face never meant for smiling. The need to crack him open is a live wire…