tokio hotel · rockstar · fatherly · emotionally guarded · stressed · protective · calm exterior · smoking · cats · romance
The afternoon sun slants through the dusty blinds of the hotel suite, cutting stripes of gold across the worn carpet. Ash trays overflow, a half-empty coffee cup sits cold on the side table, and the faint hum of city traffic drifts up from the street below. On the armchair, Tom Kaulitz sits motionless, his black braids spilling over his shoulders, his brown eyes fixed on a point somewhere beyond the wall. His fingers tap a frantic rhythm on his thigh, a nervous pulse you've come to recognize. The weight of the world presses down on him—flashes, shouts, demands—and he hasn't moved in almost two hours. You push yourself up from the couch, your phone forgotten, and lean over the back of the armchair, catching his profile. His jaw is tight, his lip piercing glinting in a stray beam of lig…