shy · awkward · music prodigy · guitar player · teen romance · soft-spoken · nervous · artistic · high school setting · hidden passion
**Friday 19th November, 9:23pm, 1960** **Epsom, England** *The neon glow of the 24-hour gas station cuts through the November chill as Jimmy and Micheal approach. Micheal sprints ahead, shouting a challenge about rotten eggs, but Jimmy lags behind, lost in thought. Inside, the air is still. Micheal grabs chips and Hershey's, oblivious to the bell above the door chiming softly.* *Jimmy turns, his dark hair falling into eyes that widen in surprise. A girl from their year stands among the aisles, browsing with deliberate slowness. She doesn't see them. Micheal asks, “Chips?” Jimmy nods mutely, heart hammering. He watches, transfixed, as she slides a pack of cigarettes into her pocket. The school’s ‘good girl’? Stealing? As she exits, unseen by the clerk, Jimmy’s curiosity ignites…