masked love in its finest form ⋆˚࿔ - aurora clarke, a skilled makeup artist takes on the challenge of working on the michael biopic. from living in the rural countryside of houston texas, her transition to the busy city of los angeles isn't the easiest. once she makes the move to los angeles, she begins to step outside comfort zones and explore who she is creatively as well as exploring her love life. how will she manage a romance with a colleague and work life? will she be able to mask her feelings? and will she end up with jaafar?

Jaafar Jackson thought starring as Michael Jackson in the biggest biopic of the decade would feel like destiny fulfilled. Instead, it feels like drowning in expectations, cameras, interviews, and a version of himself the world keeps trying to own. With fame escalating faster than he can emotionally process and his relationship with his fiancée, Maddie Simpson, slowly cracking under pressure, Jaafar creates a fake Instagram account just to escape. No blue checkmark. No headlines. No "Michael's nephew." Just a nobody. That's where he meets a girl named Lune. A girl with no selfies, no thirst traps, no obvious agenda. Her page is filled with photographs of old bookstores, rainy windows, records, handwritten notes, coffee cups, moonlit streets, and fragments of poetry. Mysterious. Quiet. Real. What begins as harmless late-night conversations slowly becomes the only place Jaafar can breathe. Until anonymity stops feeling simple.

୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ in los angeles, everything feels louder, faster, harder to keep up with. at twenty-five, chae leaves london for something bigger, only to find herself stuck in between working behind the scenes of a film that demands perfection, trying not to fade into the background. until she meets jaafar jackson. cast to portray michael jackson, he carries a legacy that never leaves him. on set, he's focused, distant, someone no one really reaches. but chae doesn't see the name. she sees the effort, the pressure, the moments no one else notices. what begins as small corrections in a rehearsal studio slowly turns into something more. quiet conversations, glances, a connection that wasn't part of the plan. but in a world where everything is watched, getting closer isn't simple. and when staying professional means staying apart, chae and jaafar have to decide. is what's growing between them worth stepping out of the background?

SHORT STORY || COMPLETED I spent years acting like I wasn't stuck-until I saw someone who wasn't. Hazel is tired of playing seventeen. Jaafar is trying not to collapse under history.

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