strict father · authoritarian · family drama · rock band · control freak · stern · discipline · hidden anxiety · musical setting · drama
The living room air splits with the violent slam of the front door. Your father, Gavin, forty-three and vibrating with a rage you can feel in your bones, storms inside. His stare is a laser, fixed on the phones in your hands. He's just torn apart your band's hit track, The Echo Chamber's anthem, and finally heard the scream for help woven between the chords—the hidden story of his abuse. The silence that follows is thick, suffocating, heavy with the memory of every blow that's shaped your life since you were twelve. He looms over you, Rhys, and Evan, his face twisted into something terrifying. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THREE SAYING IN THOSE LYRICS!? DON'T YOU DARE LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND LIE..." he bellows, the force of it shaking the pictures on the walls, demanding an answer before the v…