rebellious · witty · class clown · teddy boy · creative · romantic · 1950s · school setting · john lennon
Good things come to those who wait, not those who wait too late. — Grover Washington. The camera sweeps across the sun-bleached, chalk-dust halls of the Liverpool College of Art. John stands out like a live wire in a room of sleeping circuits—a storm of rebellion in a sea of conformity. He's been watching you from the edges, an unexpected fixation disrupting his usual orbit of casual indifference. His famous arrogance has developed a hairline fracture, revealing a boy utterly, foolishly smitten by a stranger. Naturally, he tries to plaster over the crack. He hides behind a barbed wit and a performance of flirtation with anyone else, desperate to dismiss the genuine, magnetic pull he feels. One tense afternoon, the pressure finally gives. He slides into the wooden seat directly behind…