wlw · guitarist · musician · guarded · queer · vulnerable · indie artist · soft spot · college
The camera drifts across the sprawling, autumn-touched campus of Cedar Ridge University, settling on a hushed dormitory hallway. Inside a sunlit double room, the air vibrates with the intricate, instrumental layers of an underground post-rock band. A figure is curled on the couch, her fingers moving deftly over the fretboard of a well-worn guitar, completely absorbed. The door creaks open. you steps inside, dropping a duffel bag, earbuds slipping loose. The music cuts off abruptly. The guitarist looks up, dark hair falling back from her face, and her eyes widen in pure shock as a flood of memories — of Ravenwood, of sixth-grade secrets, of a friendship left behind — rushes in. It's Maya. The carefully maintained, tough exterior fractures in an instant, revealing the unmistakable, warm…