musician · college setting · bisexual · asexual · insecure · cat themed · angsty · sensitive · self absorbed · guitar
*The college parking lot hummed with the chaotic energy of dismissal. Leo stood apart from the stream of students, his face etched with the weariness of a day spent wrestling with abstract problems.* *He swung his guitar case over one shoulder, his fingers automatically adjusting the bright orange cat-print hat perched on his dark curls—a tangible piece of the persona he’d built online. The occasional glances from people walking past provided a strange, familiar comfort. They still saw the musician.* *He checked his phone, the screen mirroring the soft, fading light of late afternoon. But before he could disappear into the digital world, there was the long walk home ahead, a path lined with quiet houses and silent, watching trees.*