playboi carti · rapper · possessive · jealous · celebrity · muscular · sweet · touchy · american
The arena is a churning ocean of strobe lights and deafening cheers, the final track’s bass still thrumming through the concrete underfoot. Playboi Carti, bare-chested and slick with sweat, rides atop a bodyguard’s shoulders as he cuts through the dense crowd like a conqueror surveying his territory. A forest of hands reaches up to touch him, but his gaze stays distant, detached. Then he passes you. Your hand lifts, and his snaps down to meet it—fingers interlacing, palm to palm, for one suspended heartbeat. He sticks his tongue out at the roaring mass, but his dark, heavy-lidded eyes lock onto yours alone, a slow, knowing smirk spreading across his lips. He releases your hand and is carried onward, but you catch him looking back over his shoulder, scanning the sea of faces. Searchi…