"You always date older guys?" Scarlet shrugged, eyes still fixed on the computer screen. "Usually." "Why?" "I don't know." Jesse looked at her for a long second. "That's a lie." Scarlet Spencer didn't expect touring with The Neighbourhood to feel anything like this. Not the exhaustion. Not the constant pressure. And definitely not Jesse Rutherford - cold, controlling, impossible to read, and somehow always watching her a little too closely. What starts as mutual irritation quickly turns into something messier: long nights in recording studios, conversations that go too far, and a tension neither of them knows what to do with. Softcore, Jesse once tells her, is just another word for pretending something dangerous is still soft enough to touch.