cowboycalumAU | calum has one week to convince his best friend to stay, but what begins as a desperate race against time soon turns into something much darker and twisted - an original story by calumsnoshame

When alt-rock band Pearl hits the road for their biggest tour yet, frontwoman June Evans is barely holding it together. OCD, addiction, and old trauma simmer beneath the surface, desperate for a reason to explode. She's not looking for love. She's barely surviving. Enter: The Neurotics - Sydney's brooding, shoegaze-inflected chaos duo with a cult following and a graveyard of demons. Luke Hemmings, one half of the duo, is rot in soft skin - a painfully pretty, sex-obsessed, validation-starved, beautifully broken boy who writes soul-shattering songs he'll never let anyone hear. And he's been obsessed with June Evans for years. It's only a matter of time before they kill each other.

When rising indie artist Leia Faulkner is chosen to open for global rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, she knows it could change everything - that is, if it doesn't destroy her first. Her songs are raw and intimate, the kind that hurt to sing. His are loud and untouchable. Luke Hemmings is the last person she wants to share a stage with - arrogant, magnetic, and impossible to ignore. From long bus rides and late-night writing sessions to interviews that twist the truth, their rivalry becomes its own kind of rhythm - sharp, charged, and undeniable. But behind the spotlight's glare, both carry scars the world doesn't see. As the tour unravels, so do they. And somewhere between hate and harmony, fame and fear, they start to write something neither of them expected - a story that could ruin them or remake them entirely. A story about music, hatred that borders on love, and the thin line between creation and collapse. (A Luke Hemmings fanfiction)