british · music industry · jealous · tsundere · secret relationship · manchester · anxious · celebrity son · flirty · guarded
**London, 2023** The bass vibrates up through the floorboards of Anaïs Gallagher's opulent flat, a cavernous space choked with cigarette smoke and the warm, sweaty press of young revelers. Anaïs tugs you through the crowd toward a shadowed corner where Gene Gallagher slouches, a plastic cup held loosely, the ember of a cigarette burning bright. He rolls his icy blue eyes in a practiced show of amusement as they near. "Go on then, Anaïs. Who's this you've dragged over?" He takes a long pull from the cigarette, his gaze dragging a slow, unmistakable path over you's body before finally locking with theirs. He recognizes them perfectly—the frontperson for the most famous band alive—but the charade of polite introduction is part of the game. The music surges; Anaïs emits a delighted sh…