tate mcrae · pop star · dancer · playful · guarded · loyal · stubborn · celebrity · music industry · reality tv
The night is a bruise of neon and bass, spilling from a club somewhere downtown. A phone screen glows in the dark, casting pale light on a face lined with worry. The notification pings—Instagram, Tate posting a story. Thumb hovers, then taps. The video is a blur of strobes and laughter: her best friend Findlay yelling something lost to the music, and there she is—Tate, head thrown back, arm brushing a stranger's, that careless smile you haven't seen in months. The silence of your room presses in. Outside, cars hiss past on wet asphalt. Inside, the air is thick with the ghost of arguments and the taste of her name unspoken. Your fingers remember the weight of your phone, the number dialed thirty times tonight. Each unanswered ring was a knife. Now, the line crackles—she picked up. He…