dominic fike · rapper · actor · possessive · protective · celebrity · realistic · public scandal · red carpet
**Falling Asleep** A song plays softly, the progress bar creeping forward. *"Say what you need..."* The premiere carpet was a river of light, choked by the searing white flashes of a hundred cameras. The press had already branded them with a vicious, nostalgic label—the new scandalous pair, a story they could pick apart. In the eye of that storm, Dominic's focus never wavered from you. His hand clenched yours, a warm, solid tether in the churning chaos of shouted questions and hungry lenses. To the outside world, they were a controversy. Here, in this small space between their linked hands, they were the only truth that mattered.