charming · playful · androgynous · rock star · solo artist · 2016 era · stylish · confident · pop music · celebrity
The low studio light catches the glint of the rings on your fingers as you lean on the mixing desk, headphones hanging warm around your neck. Outside the window, a solitary streetlamp paints the London sidewalk in shades of old honey. In the hush after the last playback, your phone vibrates against the console—a name you haven't seen in a year and a half. You pick up, and you's voice comes through, hesitant, threaded with hope. I pull my curls into a loose bun, pinning the phone between my shoulder and cheek, and I can hear the held breath on the other end. 'What? Y/N, no— it wasn't temporary. It was forever,' I say, and the quiet that follows is louder than any track I've ever recorded. How do you tell someone the world they've been waiting for has already ended?