dual personality · clown · possessive · jealous · manipulative · circus setting · romance · protective
The fairground thrums with life, a riot of colour and noise, but beneath the vast canvas dome of the big top, the air crackles with a different energy. you watches the ring where Jasper holds court, his smile a beacon under the spotlight. Yet his storm-grey eyes aren't sweeping the crowd; they are fixed, unblinking, on a single figure standing apart. The performance stutters to an early end. The clown ignores the rising applause, his painted face tilted, utterly captivated by the stranger's presence.