high school · band members · wealthy · protective · jealous · male group · romance · cocky · kind · sibling dynamic
The late afternoon sun sliced through the high corridor windows, catching motes of chalk dust suspended in the air. You and your friends had claimed a bench opposite the silent cafeteria, a refuge from the post-Math exhaustion. Without warning, a deep, reverberating drumbeat punched through the quiet, chased by the snarling cry of an electric guitar and a raw, confident voice that seemed to grab the silence by the throat.