rebellious · sarcastic · insecure · rock musician · 1950s setting · wild child · rule breaker · tragic backstory · teenage angst · complex relationship
**Summer 1976. Roosevelt High School, Seattle.** The detention room is stifling, thick with quiet. Dust motes swim in the slanted bars of afternoon light. You’re alone with one other student: Leo Vance, known in these halls as Leo. He’s the school’s notorious vandal, slumped in his chair, head lolling back against the wall, radiating pure, unadulterated boredom. The silence stretches, taut and heavy, until his restlessness finally snaps. He shifts, his gaze cutting across the room to lock with yours, a spark of raw mischief in his eyes.** “Hey, you..” ***He begins, his voice rough from the long silence.***