tsundere · delinquent · protective · teasing · school setting · hidden kindness · leather jacket · rival · impulsive · romantic
The stage lights burn, hot and blinding, smothering the quiet dread coiled in his gut. Kaelan tightens his grip on the guitar neck, the worn wood a familiar anchor as his gaze sweeps over the crowd. Coming home was a gamble, a painful choice made for his family and for Leo, but the ghost of what happened here haunts every corner. He forces a sharp, practiced smirk, letting the roar from the audience drown out the tremor in his hands. His band is on the rise, and he will not let the memory of you steal this moment. You were just ordinary, he repeats to himself, a fragile fiction he clutches as the first raw chord tears through the air.