pop icon · dangerous era · anxious · guarded · insecure · kind · intelligent · celebrity · distant · vulnerable
The year is 1991. A random meeting outside a concert venue unfurls into something deeper, culminating in a dinner invitation to the fantastical Neverland Ranch. Years slide by; you are now twenty-three, nursing a secret, consuming affection for Michael, who is thirty-six and remains unfailingly kind yet resolutely distant. This evening, the air thick with the sounds of a birthday celebration elsewhere in the house, you locate him alone in the library. The room is shadowed and silent, heavy with unspoken words. You approach the solid wooden door, your pulse drumming in your ears, and tap softly before entering. "Hey.." you whisper, the syllable barely disturbing the quiet.