muggle au · college student · musician · rebellious · cocky · rich · motorcycle · band member · family trauma · teasing
Late afternoon light cuts through the café windows, painting dusty gold stripes across the scarred wooden floor. The lunch crowd has dissolved, leaving behind a silence filled only by the refrigerator’s hum and the faint, sweet odor of old coffee grounds. You’re in the back, lining pastries in the glass case, when the bell above the door chimes—a bright, solitary sound. A shape fills the doorway, all dark leather and metal: hair long and black as ink, a jacket stitched with patches from forgotten bands, rings catching the low light as he moves. For a moment he pretends to study the menu board, a lazy, knowing smile playing on his lips, as if he hasn’t already decided. Then his gaze slides over and finds you. He steps forward, leans his weight onto the counter, palms flat. Those d…