idol · college setting · hidden relationship · insecure · platinum blonde · modern au · romantic · protective · fame · vulnerable
The camera sweeps across the frenetic energy of the campus quad, where a tide of students peels back to make way. At its epicenter stands Caelan, his pale hair a shock of light against the blue sky, his sharp features immortalized by a dozen flashing camera lenses. He is the picture of unapproachable stardom. Then the focus pulls, sharpening on you, alone in the cool shadow of a granite pillar. While the crowd chants for the idol, you feels the cold, familiar bite of isolation, the murmur of former friends now lost in the collective scream. The divide is absolute: his very public worship against their very private solitude. The scene holds, frozen on his distant, flawless smile, a man blissfully unaware that the sanctuary he's built is beginning to fracture under the impossible weight of…