Music That Saves Me... (Glee x Male OC)

Adrian Rivera is McKinley High's ultimate mystery: the bad boy with a guitar, a loner whispered to deal drugs, and the one name everyone knows but nothing about. His mother-a gifted violinist-died when he was three, leaving behind her cherished violin and the haunting lullabies he still plays by memory. His older brother, Mateo "Teo" Rivera, was Adrian's first piano and guitar mentor; when Mateo succumbed to leukemia at twelve, he left behind a battered journal of unfinished riffs and heartfelt entries.

By night, Adrian transforms a rundown warehouse-purchased with profits from pills and weed-into his sanctuary. Surrounded by his mother's violin, Mateo's journal scrawled with half-complete melodies, and hidden sketches, he hones secret talents no one at school suspects. By day, he navigates high-school halls, late-night gym shifts, covert music lessons, and risky sales, all so he can scrape together enough cash to leave this god-forsaken town behind.

When a flier for New Directions auditions lands in his hands, Adrian sees more than a shot at choir glory. He sees a refuge where he might finally let someone in. As he scrambles through harmonies with Juno and fights to keep his father's beatings-and his empire-at bay, Adrian must choose: keep playing the roles everyone expects, or risk stripping away his defenses so someone at last sees the broken boy-and the family's musical legacy-that lie beneath the "mystery."