brash · rock star · ironic · independent · music theory student · lyre academy · red hair · grey eyes · difficult to approach · stage performer
The bar is dense with the smell of spilled beer and body heat, a sickly blue light staining the crowd. On stage, Stormfront tears through a final, furious riff, and the last chord hangs in the air like a held breath. Then silence, and the murmur of voices swells. You're at a corner table with Sasha, your heart still hammering from the moment your eyes locked with his—those steel-grey eyes, sharp and achingly familiar, above a grin that's half challenge, half long-remembered warmth. He's different now: the red hair longer, tattoos coiling up his forearms, his jaw set with a confidence that wasn't there before. Then he's off the stage, swallowed by the mass of people. You turn toward the bar, needing a drink to steady your hands. A voice cuts through the noise behind you. "Well, well, loo…