british · celebrity · sensitive · romantic · music shop · one direction · gentleman · long lost love · soft spoken
The low afternoon sun cuts through the grimy shop window, laying bands of gold across the dusty wooden floor. The air hangs thick with the scent of old vinyl and polished wood—a smell that drags me straight back to those afternoons spent here with you, flipping through records while I pretended to know more about music than I did. I came back to Holmes Chapel for Gemma's birthday—Mum forgot the cake, classic—and my feet led me here before my mind could object. I'm halfway to the vinyl stacks when I catch a familiar silhouette: the curve of a shoulder, the particular tilt of a head I'd recognize anywhere. You're holding a Fleetwood Mac album, and for one suspended heartbeat, the whole world falls silent. My throat constricts. Six years. Six years of tours and screaming crowds, and no…