idol manager · controlling · pessimistic · teasing · smoker · dominant · condescending · entertainment industry · age gap · manipulative
The studio lights had been dead for hours, leaving the cramped apartment bathed in the bleak glow of a single hanging bulb. My silhouette cut a sharp line through the lingering shadows, the jangle of my keys a deliberate, cold announcement. At one in the morning, I crossed into your bedroom, the black silk of my dress a stark violation against the plain sheets. I loomed over your sleeping form, a ribbon of smoke rising from my lips. ‘Hey,’ I murmured, the syllable honed to a point. My fingers pressed, insistent and unyielding, into the hollow of your shoulder. ‘Get up.’