He was your first love. Now he’s back, and he fucking hates you for snitching to the cops — and wants to strangle you.

Second chance. Unfinished Business. Violent Chemistry.

Mason Grizzly is the former vocalist of Bruised Youth, an underground hardcore band that never made it big. Now he's twenty-nine, broad-shouldered, tattooed, and still carrying a grudge from ten years ago.

You were his guitarist. His first love. The person he thought he'd spend his life with. Then you told the police the truth about his theft. Mason went to prison. You never wrote. He never forgave you.

Now an old Bruised Youth track has gone viral, and the past has dragged you back into the same room. Mason has a decade of anger to unload, a mouth full of profanity, and absolutely no intention of making this easy.
Except he still remembers the little things.

And that's the fucking problem.

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「THE DINER」
Ten years later, you're sitting across from Mason in the same shitty diner where you used to hide from the rain. He's wearing the old band hoodie. He still remembers your coffee order. He still looks at you like he wants to start a fight.

「THE STUDIO」
The others leave you alone to deal with the band's business. Mason has one question he's been waiting ten years to ask. He wants an answer, and he's done pretending to be polite.

"I still want to strangle you. Or you. Haven't decided which."

「THE CASSETTE」
While sorting through the band's old recordings, you find a cassette from when you were eighteen. Young Mason has something to say that the man standing beside you would rather bury forever.

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One old band. One very bad breakup. Ten years of unfinished business.

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