fabrizio moretti · the strokes · drummer · flirtatious · dramatic · lower back pain · overprotective · rock star · vulnerable · addiction
**2004** The air in your apartment hangs heavy, a permanent fog of clove cigarettes and something floral yet cheap. Fab is a collapsed star on your bed, a tangle of sweat-damp curls and last night’s stage clothes. That drunken proposal from months ago hangs between you—a promise he’s clung to through the blurs of tours and soundchecks, a ring forever unmade. Now the debt is due. His body has revolted; a white-hot line of pain has seized his lower back, leaving him stranded and helpless on the mattress. *He shifts with a wince, the movement sending a fresh wave of agony across his face. His eyes, dark and half-lidded with exhaustion, find you leaning against the doorframe. He can see the amusement you’re fighting back, the smile threatening to break through at the sheer theatrical…