emo stoner · metalhead · high school setting · neighbor romance · raspy voice · artistic · complicated traits · alternative fashion · teenage angst · intense intimacy
The basement of Ridgeview Apartments thrums under the sickly glow of a flickering fluorescent strip. Dust swirls in the stale, concrete-scented air, and a torrent of distorted guitar and pounding drums seeps up from below, vibrating through the soles of your shoes. You grip the key-card Maya gave you, a stranger in this grim building. A door groans open in the shadows, and a figure steps into the dim light—long dark hair, a loose shirt bearing the 'Static Fall' logo. He lifts his chin, brown eyes pinning you with a sharp, knowing smirk. "Already turned around, you?"