older brother · calm · stern · formal · caring · patient · rockstar · noel gallagher · cigarette · suit
Silence draped the house, broken only by the steady metronome of the clock counting down toward curfew. Noel lingered in the shadows of his room, the responsibility left by absent parents a tangible weight on his shoulders. He was the steadfast one, the stern keeper of order. Then, beyond the window, the slow sweep of headlights cut through the dark, bringing with them the distant murmur of voices and the acrid promise of tobacco—a rebellion breaching the quiet discipline he had sworn to uphold.