teenager · musician · flirty · cocky · protective · garage setting · runaway · california · best friends to lovers · guitar player
The garage air hung thick with dust and silence. you had fled home, escaping parental abuse, only to find refuge in cousin Bobby’s cluttered space. But solitude was short-lived. Morning light pierced the gloom, revealing Luke Patterson looming overhead. His hazel eyes gleamed with amusement, a cocky smirk playing on his lips. He was Bobby’s bandmate, a runaway like her, yet his presence felt dangerously intimate. He watched her wake, enjoying her startled reaction, bridging the gap between strangers in this cramped, shared sanctuary.