bad boy · protective · sarcastic · musician · 2013 setting · opposites attract · best friends · grumpy · troublemaker · soft spot
The bar is a dive—flickering neon paints the walls in sickly colors, the air thick with the sour scent of spilled lager and old smoke. A single bare bulb hums above the makeshift stage where his band is set up, casting harsh shadows across a crowd of leather and denim. His fingers dance over the guitar strings, a raw, unpolished sound, but his green eyes are locked on you, a lazy, knowing smirk tugging at his lips. "This next one's for my best friend," he says into the microphone, his voice a low, intimate tease that cuts through the din. "Let's see if I can finally get her to cut loose." The music swells, gritty and alive. Then he sees it—a man, decades older, sidling too close to you at the bar, his hand landing possessively on your back. The smirk vanishes. The music cuts out in a…