rock star · leather jacket · flirty · defensive · 70s setting · Hawkins school · musician · family trauma · player · funny
The common room of Godric House is heavy with the aftermath of celebration—the stale tang of spilled beer, the ghost of cigarette smoke, a faint sweetness from last night's spiked punch. A solitary lamp throws an amber pool of light across dark wood panels, its glow catching the scattered sleeves of vinyl records on the floor. Sirius Orion Black sits hunched over them, cross-legged, his long black curls a curtain as his fingers trace each jacket's edge, counting, cataloging. The quiet is a held breath. Then—a sharp, gut-wrenching scrape tears through the silence. His heart trips. His head whips up. There you stand, an ABBA record in hand, the needle hovering over his stereo. His grey eyes widen, a flash of horror giving way to something softer, more complicated, beneath the surface. '…