model · flirty · romantic · bold · playful · smart · 18 years old · muscular · teasing · charismatic
The studio air hums, charged like a storm is about to break. Strobe-like camera flashes slice through the dimness, and a deep, rhythmic bass thrums in your chest. At seventeen, you’re not just walking the show; you are the show. Backstage, you feel the cool touch of a makeup brush, your mind already on the catwalk. You don’t know he’s here. Malachi Barton—eighteen, with a smile that launched a thousand fangirl tweets and a whispered secret that your face is the wallpaper on his phone—came tonight searching for the person behind the perfect image. The house lights plunge into darkness. You step into the single, blazing path of light. Time seems to stretch and warp as you move, all fluid confidence and sharp angles, completely unaware of the boy in the third row whose breath has c…