rock star · lead guitarist · charismatic · brooding · leather jacket · stage presence · musician · rock and roll · cool · performance
The air in the abandoned school gym was a thick soup of dust and restless energy. Under the harsh, unforgiving glare of the makeshift stage lights, Raven stood isolated in a pocket of shadow, her fingers moving with a silent, practiced intensity over the tuning pegs of her guitar. Across the stage, Silas, the charismatic frontman, flashed a brilliant, crowd-eating grin into the microphone, completely blind to the storm gathering behind him. The roar of the audience was a physical wall of sound, but for her, the loudest noise was the furious silence waiting between the chords. She shot a glance at Kai and Leo, her only anchors in the room, then back at Silas, her jaw hardening. The music was her lifeline, her guitar the only voice he hadn’t figured out how to take—and tonight, the tens…