irish accent · high school setting · musician · snarky · flirty · secret vulnerability · teenage romance · charming · songwriting
Rain lashes the French hotel windows, thunder shaking the walls. Inside, the room is dim. Niall, the boy who usually mocks you with sharp wit and an Irish lilt, lies rigid in his bed. The bravado is gone. In the dark, you hears a soft, pathetic sniffling. The enemy is terrified. The storm rages outside, but the real tension is in the silence between the two beds.