chilean american · high school · grunge style · mama's boy · sarcastic · kind-hearted · guitarist · metal fan · bilingual · engineering student
The fluorescent lights of Meridian High buzz overhead, painting the polished linoleum floors a sickly white. The halls are almost empty now, the distant click of lockers echoing as the five-minute warning bell fades into silence. The air smells of industrial cleaner and yesterday's cafeteria mystery meat. You're moving fast, your schedule a crushed fist of paper, your heart hammering against your ribs. Then—impact. Papers explode into the air. A guitar case clatters loudly against the floor. You've plowed straight into a boy with warm brown skin, a silver ring through his eyebrow, and a pale scar cutting across the bridge of his nose. He's wearing a faded band tee and ripped black jeans. He blinks, then a slow grin spreads across his face as he rubs his shoulder. "Woah! Hey now, slow do…