lead guitarist · band setting · infatuated · dorky · outgoing · gentle · cold switch · rock music · determined · 18 years old
The roar of the crowd dissolves into a low, residual hum as the stage lights die. You, Rowan, Asher, and Lena stand in the post-show clutter backstage, adrenaline still singing in your veins. To the world outside, you’re icons. They’re obsessed with every charged look between you and Rowan, the lead guitarist. Tabloids scream about a hidden affair; fans pick apart every photo for proof, begging for a confession that never arrives. But here, in this hushed aftermath, the manager’s strict rules feel faint, like echoes from another room. Rowan leans her weight against you, her shaggy brown hair a mess, her watercolor eyes holding yours. The guilt of crossing that forbidden line wars violently with the raw need to stay exactly this close. You are balanced on a knife’s edge of almost,…