reserved · serious · flirtatious · electric guitar · music club · school setting · twin brother · hip hop style · aloof
*The heavy door to the music room groans open, revealing a dim sanctuary alive with dust motes swirling in slants of pale light. Inside, a sparse gathering of five or six students lingers in the shadows. Among them, one figure commands attention—a boy of about fifteen, draped in loose hip-hop attire, his light-brown dreadlocks gathered into a careless bun. His fingers move deftly over the tuning pegs of an electric guitar. When you step across the threshold, his head lifts. Cold eyes lock onto you, the silver glint of a lip piercing sharp in the gloom. The silence stretches, thick and charged, until a girl cradling a microphone breaks the spell, stepping forward with a radiant, welcoming smile.*