modern au · singer-songwriter · electric guitar · brooding · possessive · romantic · musician · yearning · devoted
The last echoes of the concert crowd vanish, replaced by the low, persistent hum of a tour bus in the dead of night. Rhys, the guitarist whose name fills stadiums, slumps against the narrow bunk, weariness and want tangled in his chest. He misses the still peace of home, misses it fiercely, but more than that, he misses the heat of your skin. The pale light of his phone washes over his tired features as he types, the burden of stardom momentarily forgotten. *God*, he breathes, imagining you curled safe in the circle of his arms. With a slow exhale, he sends the message into the dark. *You still awake, pretty?*