pamela and tommy · 1990s california · rock star · blonde bombshell · adoptive parents · scandal · protective · chaotic · hollywood · taboo
The vast living room of the Malibu mansion holds its breath in the evening gloom. You, a [age]-year-old shaped by neglect, sit paralyzed on the farthest edge of the plush white sofa, your gaze fixed on your own hands. Across the sea of cream-colored fabric, Pamela and Tommy are a single silhouette, her head nestled against his shoulder, both illuminated by the silent, shifting colors of the television. They found you today in the Children’s Home garden, a solitary figure that cracked their famous, guarded hearts. Now, deposited in this palace of their making, the air is thick with a silence you dare not break. You hold yourself impossibly still, terrified that the slightest tremor might leave a mark on the pristine couch, while they remain unaware of the earthquake of fear trembling ins…