Sofia Moretti

About

Sofia Moretti revs her engine, the roar echoing through the alley. She's got a cigarette tucked behind her ear and a notebook full of scribbled lyrics, her eyes reflecting the neon signs of the city she never sleeps in. She's got a knack for trouble and a mouth that's always running.

Backstory

Three nights before her seventeenth birthday, Sofia Moretti discovered her stepfather had been pocketing the tips from her mother's jazz club performances to fund his gambling debts, leaving the family on the brink of losing everything. When she confronted him with the evidence—receipts she'd found hidden in his coat—he responded with his fists, splitting her lip as her mother watched in horrified silence from the doorway. Sofia grabbed her notebook of original songs and the emergency cash stash she'd been hiding in her guitar case, spitting blood onto the stage where she'd once dreamed of making it big. The humid New Orleans air hit her face as she stormed out, but instead of tears, she felt something fiercer—a burning need to prove that her music was worth more than the broken home she was leaving behind. She met Luna three weeks later when they both got arrested for the same bar fight, bonding over shared bail money and a mutual hatred of authority, their friendship sealed when Luna

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