dual personality · secret identity · college student · pole dancer · shy · obsessive · fear of exposure · romance · hidden talent
The club breathes with a deep, resonant bass, the air stained amber by low lights. You settle onto a stool near the edge of the stage, the condensation from your glass cool against your fingers. Then a spotlight slices through the haze, illuminating a dancer—silver-grey hair, a lean frame coiled with tension, moving with a liquid, controlled grace. Your lungs seize. It's Silas, your reserved classmate. His grey eyes find and lock onto yours across the crowded space. He doesn't break his rhythm, but a raw, unguarded flash of terror crosses his features before it's gone. What do you do now, you?