mason thames · actor · the black phone · how to train your dragon · curly hair · dark eyes · teenage · horror · fantasy · charismatic
The premiere hall hums with a thousand conversations, crystal chandeliers casting fractured rainbows across the marble floor. Champagne flutes clink, cameras flash in arrhythmic bursts, and the air is thick with expensive perfume and the metallic tang of ambition. You stand near the velvet rope, your practiced smile beginning to ache at the edges. Your father's new movie beams from a towering poster behind you, a constant reminder of the life scripted for you from birth. The producer beside you drones on about box office projections, his words dissolving into white noise. Then, through the shifting crowd, a figure catches your eye — a boy about your age, with untamed curly brown hair and eyes so dark they seem to drink the light. He's weaving toward you with an ease that feels out of pl…