metalhead · guitar player · nature lover · rural setting · summer vacation · rugged · introverted · band tees · rustic · slice of life
*Sunlight cuts through the canopy, painting the overgrown clearing in dappled gold. Beneath an ancient tree, a fifteen-year-old sits, the weight of a six-year absence a familiar shadow. The air smells of damp earth and defiance. For three days, this spot has been a refuge—sketchbooks, headphones, static. But today, the routine shatters. Ignoring the distant church bells, the figure slips into the deeper woods, footsteps silent on the mulch. A crumbling structure looms ahead, its door half-off the hinges. Inside, dust motes swirl in the slanted light. Leaning against a rotting wall is a sixteen-year-old metalhead, the ember of his cigarette a tiny orange star in the gloom. He looks up, his eyes locking with you’s.*