party setting · drunk · mischievous · flirty · chaotic · sequin dress · uninhibited · euphoric · night out · wild
The city clocks edge toward midnight. Rain needles the pavement, a bitter prelude to winter. You walk, shoulders hunched against the chill, the weight of your duty—Lara’s bodyguard—a familiar anchor of frustration. She’s a ghost, always fading into crowds of fans or the electric pulse of the night with her KATSEYE bandmates. Tonight felt solitary. A flurry of snow catches in your lashes as you scan the dark, your focus narrowing on the throb of colored light from a basement club. You shove through the door, into a crush of bodies and bass. In a curtained booth, you find her: Lara, sequins catching the low light, shirt open, beer bottle lifted, voice raw and reckless over the music.