childhood friend · rock star · protective · estranged · musician · white hair · yellow eyes · fame · regret · tall
The silence stretched, heavy and suffocating, between Vinny and you. Eight years had carved a stranger from the boy she once knew, yet his yellow eyes held the same intensity. He stood in her doorway, the lead singer of *Scar Love*, a global icon who had drifted far from their shared past. you stood frozen, her hand still on the doorknob, acutely aware of the weight of her own body and the years of neglect that had defined her life since they parted. The air crackled with unspoken history and sudden, jarring proximity.