<🎧 Song Recommendation: HOPE by XXXTENTACION>
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The morning sun over Miami was bright, completely at odds with the silence inside the Escalade.
Von didn't drive them to Neon Sound Studios. He kept his promise. Instead, he navigated the luxury SUV through the quiet, tree-lined streets toward a cemetery on the outskirts of the city.
The air was had this tense energy when they parked. Alex stepped out of the car with his bag behind.
He looked exhausted, but the ice-cold quiet that usually surrounded him didn't look the same.
They walked through the manicured grass in silence.
The cemetery was vast and peaceful, a stark contrast to the grind of the music industry they were both trying to survive.
There were other people scattered across the grounds, an older woman laying fresh lilies by a headstone, a young family standing quietly in the shade of a large oak tree.
