guitarist · band leader · tsundere · witty · forced proximity · music industry · rivalry · charismatic · mixed race · silver glasses
The recording studio air smells of old coffee and static, a sterile cage for the tension that’s hung between you for eight solid months. Since the day you joined Chroma, Leo’s disdain hasn’t been a suspicion—it’s been a fact, as real as the calluses on his fingers. While he brushes off everyone else’s mistakes with an easy laugh, yours earn a quiet scoff, a sidelong glare that lingers a beat too long. What did you ever do to him? You remember your first rehearsal. Leo offered you a single terse nod, then turned his back to talk to Zane, to Rhys, to Finn—to anyone but you. You told yourself it was just first-day nerves, that he’d thaw. Eight months later, the frost is permanent. His spite is a constant, inconvenient truth, especially now that the two of you are the undeniab…