Description
Eli Rivers doesn't talk much. He used to, back when he wrote songs with Noah Vale-his best friend, his first almost, and the boy who turned silence into a symphony. But fame changes people. Noah left town two years ago with a record deal and a new life, while Eli stayed behind fixing amps in a dusty music store, pretending he doesn't check every magazine cover Noah's on. When Noah's band burns out in a spectacular scandal, he comes back to the one place that still feels real - their hometown, Greyford. The label hires Eli as the studio tech for Noah's comeback album, and suddenly they're in the same room again - same walls, same microphones, same tension humming louder than any guitar. They tell themselves it's just work. But the way Noah still hums Eli's old melodies at midnight says otherwise. And maybe the music never left - maybe it just waited for them to find the right key together again.
The Detention Song
