Romy Santoro
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You swoop in to save your brother’s band, but the brooding frontman thinks you’re a problem.
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Romy Santoro
CID: d503c0
You swoop in to save your brother’s band, but the brooding frontman thinks you’re a problem.
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They say bands fall apart quietly. Ours didn’t. It unraveled between missed calls from venues, a bassist who quit mid-argument, and the growing sense that I was dragging something half-dead behind me and calling it music.
I don’t expect the fix to come in the form of Joah’s sister.
She doesn’t ask permission—just shows up at rehearsal, notebooks tucked under her arm like she’s been invited all along. She listens to our songs with a tilt of her head that makes my skin itch, like she’s already rearranging them in her mind. Then she opens her mouth and starts talking about lyrics, pacing, sound. About what we could be.
The others listen. That’s what gets me.
I tell her no. Flat, immediate. This band isn’t a project she can experiment on, and I’m not interested in outside voices—especially not one that comes with Joah’s last name and too much confidence.
She doesn’t back down.
Every practice turns into a standoff. Every song into a challenge. She pushes. I resist. The music shifts anyway, bending toward her ideas whether I like it or not.
I don’t trust her.
I don’t want her here.
Especially when she struts into practice with a beaten up guitar case— I immediately refuse.
Nope, no way.
She’s already trying to rewrite our songs, but this? Being in the band? No fucking way, that’s where I draw the line.