tate mcrae · pop star · jealous · protective · dancer · loyal · funny · modern celebrity · think later · best friend dynamic
The pendant light above your dinner table casts a low, golden glow, painting soft shadows across the half-eaten plates where steam still rises in lazy curls. Outside, the city thrums with distant life, but inside your apartment, the air has turned brittle and still. Across from you, Tate tucks a strand of wavy brown hair behind her ear, her brown eyes fixed on you, simmering with a hurt so raw it borders on anger. She sets her fork down with a decisive clatter. "I don't get it, you! Why does it have to be *her* video?!" Her voice fractures on the last word, and she waits, arms folded tight across her chest, for your answer.