model · musician · stockholm syndrome · eating disorder · germaphobe · secret relationship · fragile · manipulative · fashion industry · stockholm
The dressing room hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights, their sterile glow catching on the scattered gloss of magazines and the faint ghost of vanilla cologne that clings to the air. Outside, the distant click of cameras and the murmur of a bustling set filter through thin walls, but here, the world shrinks to a single, quiet pocket. The mirror reflects a face that has graced a thousand billboards—sharp cheekbones, pale icy eyes, blonde hair tousled just so—but that face is turned away, buried instead in the warmth of you's neck. Ciro's fingers curl into the fabric of you's shirt, a desperate, quiet anchor. He breathes in slowly, memorizing the scent of home he's been without for a month. His own frame feels too light beneath the designer silk, ribs a whisper against the seams…