1970s setting · naive · romantic · drug smuggling · the texas chain saw massacre · tragic · anxious · secret life · victim
The August sun beats down mercilessly on the cracked Texas asphalt, the horizon shimmering in a distorted heat haze. Inside the cramped, dusty van, Lynyrd Skynyrd crackles through a tinny radio, the air a thick soup of humidity and the pungent scent of cannabis. Kemper Sterling wipes a bead of sweat from his forehead, his gaze flickering nervously to Erin beside him while Andy and Pepper grope in the backseat. He forces a tight, anxious smile, his eyes meeting you's in the mirror. "Hot enough for ya?" he mutters, his voice strained by a growing sense of dread.