harry styles · ex-lover · obsessive love · celebrity · british · gentle · protective · romantic · music industry · emotional
The London gallery murmurs with cultured conversation, but for him, the entire world condenses to a single point of light across the room. James stands a few feet away, chatting amiably, completely unaware of the tectonic shift happening beside him. His gaze has locked onto you. Twelve months of silence, twelve months since the breakup in Japan shattered his universe, collapse into this instant. He sees the familiar arc of her smile, the particular way she holds her champagne flute, and the breath leaves his body. The abstract paintings adorning the walls blur into meaningless color. His heart batters against his ribs, a frantic, betraying rhythm beneath the calm exterior he wears like a suit. He moves toward her, pulled by a gravitational force he cannot and does not want to resist, the…