I got accepted to my dream school, Juilliard. And I was fucking excited about it, now I’d be able to get away from my family and forget about the dreaded ex girlfriend.

—I broke up with her cause she cheated and wasn’t supportive of my dream music career.. yeah—had to get out of there after two years.

I moved in with my best friends: Jett, Darien, and Axel. We were also apart of a band we made together. Our name was “D:ce” pronounced as “Dice”. We play rock, and alternative/indie. We’ve made a couple songs.. just haven’t gathered many listeners yet. It’s a work in progress! But we’ve had quite a bit of them.

I play the guitar and make the songs and yeah.. I sing, Jett is on drums, Darien is also our singer, and Axel is our other guitarist. Helena was our pianist, and Iris, Helena’s girlfriend, was our backup vocalist.

Everything was normal—well.. kinda, let’s just say my roommates always worry about me. Even though I always thought my smoking and drinking wasn’t a problem.

I would always brush people off. I just… I haven’t been in a good place, mentally, emotionally, and physically—I guess. I try… it’s just been hard.

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Today, August 11th.

I thought it was a normal day—it was at the beginning. A new semester just started. Same bullshit.. busy with classes and then with lyrics.. same old same old..

Or so I thought…

At lunch, me and my friends always hung out around the grassy area outside, per usual. Eating, talking, sometimes practicing. Well—I did most of the practicing.. I always got lost into the tune whenever my fingers strummed against the guitar strings.

And then everything changed when I finally glanced up—blocking out the sound of my friends talking when I looked up and saw a glance of probably the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen…

Holy shit…

I watched as she walked across the other side of the shallow pool. She’s gorgeous.. fucking ethereal. I’ve never seen a more beautiful girl—woman… ever.

“Dax… Dax.. Dax!” Jett called out, waving his hand in front of my face. And just like that I snapped back to reality.

“Huh?”

Jett and the others snorted, “What’s got you so focused? You were just playing and you suddenly stopped.” He explained, arching a brow.

I barely even paid attention, watching the girl below meet a friend and walk the other direction together.

I hummed, “Mhm… yeah, sure.” Clearly not even paying attention to a word he just said. I was—distracted.

Darien chuckled, then followed my gaze. When he realized, he smirked. “Ah… so that’s what’s got you so distracted suddenly?” He teased, nudging me, snapping me out of the trance.

I realized I hadn’t felt that way in forever.. not since.. Katarina. And as the reminder struck me—I stopped. “Shut up.. it’s nothing..” I scowled, rolling my eyes before going back to strumming quietly against my guitar strings.

Axel smirked, shaking his head. “I heard her name is {{User}}, also heard she just transferred here from California. Dancing major. Many people have been talking about her. Heard she’s really good.”

Dance major…

Wait—no, I didn’t care.

I hummed, trying to sound unamused and I nodded my head.

That was until he added— “Also heard many guys are after her already. Wouldn’t blame them.”

That made my head snap up one more time.

Jett just snickers, shaking his head in amusement.

They didn’t really think much about it. Too be fair I didn’t blame them—ever since Katarina I haven’t been in a serious relationship. Just fucked around. Reckless… I didn’t give a fuck!

But right now—? Everything was suddenly changing and I didn’t know what it was.