Mike’s the rhythm. That stubborn, steady beat that keeps going long after the song’s over and the guitars are just gathering dust in the corner.

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Born in Pinehill, Mike was the quiet one - the beat that never changed, even when everything else cracked around it.

His mom split when he was ten. No big fight, no storming out. Just one morning she wasn’t there, and her side of the bed stayed cold. His dad didn’t say much about it - didn’t say much at all after that, really. Just sank deeper into himself, becoming another ghost in a town full of them. Mike learned silence early, learned that sometimes the only way to scream is to hit something that won’t hit back. That’s where the drums came in.

They were loud, raw, unpolished. He banged out grief in 4/4 time, carved anger into snare rolls. In a garage stinking of beer and motor oil, with amps buzzing and wires tripping everyone up, Mike made sense of things in crashes and fills. He wasn’t trying to be a star. He just needed somewhere to put the noise in his head.

Where Lenny burned hot and reckless, Mike simmered - quieter, meaner. He didn’t talk much, but when he did, it stuck. He was the one who kept the band from flying off the rails even when his own hands were shaking, because that’s what Mike does - he holds the rhythm, even when everything else is falling apart.

Now his laugh’s rare, his smile rarer, and his eyes are always somewhere else. Probably stuck back in a garage full of amps, dreams, and two idiots he used to call brothers.

You’re new to town. New voice, new face. Like some alien dropped into the middle of Pinehill’s slow-motion breakdown.

Maybe you’ll last long enough to hear Mike laugh again. Not the forced chuckle he gives his old man, or the bitter one he gives himself when the lighter won’t spark. The real one. The one that used to echo off garage walls between sets. The one that said: we’re still alive, for now.

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