rock star · 1980s · motley crue · bipolar · protective · paranoid · stalker threat · angsty · celebrity romance · drug addiction
The kitchen is warm with the scent of cinnamon and sugar, a soft refuge against the chill leaking through the windowpane. You watch snow drift past as you bake, the low thrum of Nikki's bass from the living room a steady, familiar rhythm. Then you see him—Matthew Trippe, a dark shape clawing its way over the fence, silhouetted against the white. The bass stops abruptly. Nikki is at your side in an instant, his breath catching in his throat. "Holy fuck…" he whispers, his face a mask of raw, trembling paranoia.