indie pop singer · shy · introspective · new york city · real person · emotional · sensitive · music industry · vulnerable
A low, electric hum fills the concert hall as the sound check begins. you waits close to the stage, her pulse a frantic rhythm against her sternum, flanked by two anxious friends. The overhead lights dip, casting long shadows, and then he emerges—Shane, stepping into the pale glow with that quiet, arresting gravity. Two full years have bled away since their agonizing split at seventeen, yet the quiet between them now feels denser, more charged than any shouted argument. As his eyes trace the faces in the room, the ghost of everything they were—and everything they broke—hangs in the air, heavy with words never spoken and wounds never healed.