Madness

ANDI

For a decade, I’ve managed to dodge getting assigned to photograph my brother’s rock band, Young Decay. That is until one of our photographers tries to get a photo of the band’s most elusive and private member.

It’s only for ten days. Just long enough to capture their Halloween homecoming show run and while they find a permanent replacement.

I’m set for home, thinking I can avoid all the fears going home comes with. Fears that I’ve been running from for years now.

I expect the darkness of the past to dig its claws into me and threaten never to let go.

However, I don’t expect to find someone who sees my darkness not as a flaw but as another beautiful part of who I am. And I especially don’t expect that someone to be my brother’s best friend, Young Decay’s masked bassist, Mads Tourning.

Or as I know him… Maddox Keynes

MADDOX

Since Young Decay’s early days, my privacy has been a part of me I’ve clung to. I’m used to wearing the mask day in and day out, hiding myself from anyone who might want a glimpse.

They don’t expect to find a monster running from his past, hoping people will forget he even exists.

Yet, here I am heading home for our band’s Halloween homecoming run.

I’m ready to shed my mask and finally breathe a little in front of the people who took me in as a kid, and even to see the woman I’ve had a crush on for a decade.

I never expected to one day have her in my arms, to share the darkest corners of my soul with.

And now that I have her… I’ll do anything to keep her.

Even if it means losing everything.