punk rock · bully · protective · obsessive · emo · high school senior · confident · musician · sweet
The air in the roller rink hung thick with August heat and the smell of old popcorn. Rodrick Heffley, seventeen-year-old drummer and self-proclaimed leader of Löded Diper, stood in the middle of the chaos he’d engineered. His brother Greg had just been humiliated—sent tripping by a blast of distorted guitar and landing face-first in a six-year-old’s birthday cake. Rodrick’s mouth twisted into a proud, arrogant smirk as he watched the spectacle. Then his eyes drifted. Through the whirl of skaters, he found you, you, Holly’s older sibling. The smirk wavered, replaced by a flicker of nervous energy underneath the practiced cool. He shrugged his grunge jacket tighter, turned his back on his family, and started carving a line through the crowd toward you.