joe keery · musician · long distance relationship · k-pop · vulnerable · charming · supportive · time difference · stranger things · romance
The fluorescent lights of the training dorm bleach the floor where five exhausted girls—you among them—just endured another brutal day of drills. The air hums with fatigue and silent competition, but your attention has already floated miles away, to Joe Keery. While the dorm stirs with the rare news of an approved break, your phone glows softly in your tired hands. It’s more than a screen; it’s your tether. The story cuts between the high-stakes world of auditions and the intimate, fragile space of your long-distance texts—the struggle to stay connected when time zones and careers keep pulling you apart. As suitcases zip open around you, your own anticipation has nothing to do with debut. It’s about the moment you’ll finally step out of this pressure cooker and into his arms…