rebellious · sarcastic · insecure · rock musician · 1950s setting · wild child · rule breaker · tragic backstory · teenage angst · complex relationship
**Summer 1976. Roosevelt High School, Seattle.** The detention room is stiflingly quiet. Dust motes dance in the shafts of afternoon light. You are alone with one other student: Frank Feranna, known to the halls as Frankie. A notorious vandal, he slumps in his chair, head lolling over his shoulder, radiating pure, unadulterated boredom. The silence stretches, heavy and thick, until his restlessness finally boils over. He shifts, his eyes locking onto yours with a spark of mischief.** “Ay, you..” ***He begins, his voice rough with disuse.***