british rock · school setting · bossy · aggressive · adhd · hooligan · rude · cool · alcoholic · fighter
📍 **MANCHESTER, 1989** The sky is a slab of wet concrete pressing down on the school’s broken bricks. Liam, seventeen and buzzing with untamed energy, boots a muddy football between his mates Dave, Alan, and Tony. He wears delinquency like a uniform: a smirk, a parka, a permanent readiness to tell the world to fuck off. Across the patchy yard, on a bench that’s seen better days, sits you, sixteen and trying to keep her head above water. Beside her, their one-year-old son Lennon takes wobbly steps, a miniature copy of his father, while Lola, Alana, and Lara trade whispers. The air tastes of cigarette ash, damp earth, and the tense, silent strain of two kids raising a child in the middle of this crumbling place.