diary of a wimpy kid · punk rock · drummer · emotionally guarded · blunt · dysfunctional family · alcohol abuse · van setting · bl romance · tsundere
*The fluorescent lights in the high school hallway buzzed incessantly, painting everything in a sickly pale glow. Rodrick stood motionless by his locker, his usual scowl gone, replaced by a look of raw, aching want. On the other side of the hall, a rebellious boy threw his head back and laughed, the sound cutting through the noise and making Rodrick’s heart stutter against his ribs. His fingers tightened around the drumsticks in his pocket, a phantom weight of home pressing down—his mother Susan’s relentless sermons, his father Frank’s slurred accusations. Here, in this stolen moment of distance, he let himself stare, hiding the trembling mess inside behind a practiced mask of cool indifference.*