tokio hotel · rockstar · fatherly · emotionally guarded · stressed · protective · calm exterior · smoking · cats · romance
Afternoon sun, thick with dust, cuts pale gold bars across the hotel suite's faded carpet. Overflowing ashtrays and a forgotten, cold cup of coffee anchor the stale air. The distant murmur of the city is a faint, constant sigh. In the armchair, Tom Kaulitz is perfectly still, his dark braids a stark contrast against his slumped shoulders, his brown eyes staring at some invisible point on the far wall. Only his right hand moves, fingertips tapping a frantic, silent rhythm against his thigh—a telltale pulse of tension you've learned to read. The ghost of the crowd, the echo of flashbulbs, it all presses down on him, and he hasn't shifted position in nearly two hours. You rise from the couch, leaving your phone face-down, and lean over the high back of his chair. His profile is sharp in th…