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.

Season 2 of Lot 7 Hazel and Jaafar have learned how to live without each other. Almost. She has HBO, a new role, and a life that finally feels like hers. He has the world watching, a premiere waiting, and one invitation with her name on it. The last time she saw him like that, he was walking away. This time, he is looking right at her.

𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄 ˖°. ݁ 🎬 - 𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡! Y/n and Jaafar grew up like family. Seventeen summers, shared birthdays, inside jokes, and endless lake days. But lately, every glance lasts too long. Every touch feels different. And family dinners have gone painfully, dangerously quiet. Now, trapped together for an entire summer at the lake house, with watchful parents, late-night bonfires, and nowhere to hide, Jaafar and Y/N are about to find out what happens when something that was never supposed to change suddenly changes everything. This summer, some lines are meant to be crossed. 𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐎 ˖°. ݁ 🎬 - 𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡! Eight years ago, Y/N thought goodbye would be temporary. Five hours apart had turned into different lives, different cities, different versions of themselves. At twenty-five, Y/N is everywhere. Runways in Paris. Magazine covers in New York. Campaigns in Milan. The world knows her face before they know her name. A supermodel with the kind of life people dream about-and the kind of loneliness nobody talks about. Jaafar? Jaafar became something else entirely. Hollywood's newest obsession. Chosen to portray his uncle, the legendary Michael Jackson, in the most anticipated biopic of the decade. Talented. Famous. Untouchable. And engaged. To Maddie. The kind of relationship that looks perfect in photographs. The kind people assume will last forever. Until one unexpected meeting changes everything. Because some people don't stay in the past. Some loves don't disappear. And some goodbyes? They were never really endings to begin with. ‧₊˚ 🎟️ - 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 ᵎᵎ 𝐣𝐚𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

𝑵𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝑷𝐞́𝐫𝐞𝐳 is a name that everyone knew. From red carpets to fashion week, her designs were impossible to ignore. Everyone knew her biggest inspiration was the king of pop, no other than 𝑴𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝑱𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧. But what happens when she gets an email from 𝑮𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝑲𝐢𝐧𝐠 asking her to work on the biggest project of her career? Recreating her biggest inspiration's most iconic looks was already enough pressure, but falling for the nephew wearing them? That was definitely not on her bucket list. 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂, 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎, 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒙 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝗷𝗮𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝒙 𝗳𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗰 #2 Jackson #3 socialanxiety #5 actor #4 designer