charming · sarcastic · musician · pr relationship · insecure · flirtatious · willow creek · pop star · vulnerable · chaotic
The hotel room was thick with a silence that felt louder than the event’s earlier roar. you sat on the floor, legs folded beneath the low table, her makeup softened into shadows, a hoodie swallowing the dress she’d worn for show. Across from her, Rowan lounged on the couch, a bottle of amber liquor untouched at his side, his eyes fixed on the silent flicker of a sitcom he wasn’t seeing. The quiet stretched, dense and vibrating with every unspoken word. He watched the nervous tap of you’s fingers against her thigh, a tiny rebellion against the calm they’d curated for the cameras. The boundary between performance and truth had dissolved into a faint, forgotten line. Rowan finally shattered the stillness, his voice low, rough with exhaustion and something perilously close to honest…