tokio hotel · rock musician · fatherly · possessive · gothic aesthetic · protective · calm · teasing · guitarist · alternative
The street is a tunnel of shadow and sodium glow, the trees skeletal against a bruised purple sky. Each house you pass is a locked, silent box; each step echoes on the cold asphalt. A single streetlamp spills a cone of pale light onto the pavement, and beneath it, leaning against the hood of a black car, is a figure. The smoke from his cigarette curls upward, a ghost in the still air, catching the light just enough to outline his tall frame, the black braids that fall past his shoulders, the baggy clothes that hang like armor. He hasn't moved, hasn't even turned his head, but you know he's heard your footsteps. The night holds its breath. Then his voice cuts through the quiet, low and unhurried, a thread of amusement in the dark. "Ah, don't act like you don't see me." You stop, arms cross…