"You talk like you ate a thesaurus for breakfast. You should try a normal person word instead of lineage, like family." "Would that not involve being remotely fond of them?" Being famous is like someone slowly suffocating you. Even if you chose it, you don't realize until it's already too late and the air is gone. Some people make it out, some crave the attention, while others merely let it suffocate them past the point of no return. Grace didn't choose to be famous, but Taylor did. The camera flashes are bright, they are blinding, and life is a total nightmare. It's about to get a whole lot worse. - An alternate universe to my story 'Stay' and the subsequent one shots, same characters, completely different life. As with all my stories, this book contains mature themes and sensitive subject matter and is intended for a mature audience. Reader discretion is advised. - This is a work of fiction and I only own original characters and not Taylor Swift, her works or any other living and mentioned people. Persons and or opinions are fictional and not meant to cause harm to anyone living or dead. Do not reproduce or adapt.

EM DEZEMBRO DE 2023, TAYLOR SWIFT FEZ O SEU ÚLTIMO SHOW. Nenhuma justificativa foi dada. Sem aviso prévio, o álbum Colette foi lançado em todas as plataformas. Mesmo no topo das paradas, tudo o que a cantora ofereceu foi uma simples nota de que seu hiatus era por tempo indeterminado. Em Janeiro de 2023, Gabrielle-Louise é uma pós-doutoranda de 27 anos da Universidade Panthéon-Sorbonne. Enquanto escreve sua tese, ela faz um curto curso de extensão de Fotografia para mudar um pouco de ambiente e sair do bloqueio de escrita. Após uma exposição na universidade, Gabrielle conhece Agnès Guiard, renomada fotógrafa de Hollywood e responsável por todo o setor de imagem e vídeo da próxima turnê da cantora Taylor Swift. Agnès convida Gabrielle para ser sua estagiária temporária na Europa - uma chance única de viajar por diversos países com uma das maiores artistas da atualidade e ser parcialmente responsável pelo próximo documentário da cantora. Embora um pouco distante da sua pesquisa, Gabrielle vê aquele convite como uma chance de ter novas perspectivas para a sua vida, afinal, ela não explorou o mundo além da academia. Seis meses parecia pouco tempo, mas foi o suficiente para tudo o que ela pensava ser verdade sobre si mesma, desaparecer. E foi tempo o suficiente para Gabrielle se apaixonar por alguém que ela tinha certeza: jamais conseguiriam transformar seus mundos opostos em um só... Em Dezembro de 2023, no hall da Panthéon-Sorbonne, Gabrielle ouve o álbum Colette pela primeira vez.

"You're staring at her," my friend sighs. "I'm not," I reply. "Simply just gazed over in a direction and she was there." "Then why was that look on your face?" "What?" I ask. "What look?" "You look a certain way when you see her," she informs. "You look at her and it's like you are staring at some sort of galaxy." "And?" "You love galaxies." ---- In which Taylor Swift, months before the biggest tour of her career, disappears not for rest, but for something more intimate: silence, slowness, and a borrowed kind of anonymity. She takes a position at a small university under conditions wrapped in non-disclosure and sealed lips, trading stadiums for seminar rooms and lecture halls, and the spotlight for the sound of her own thoughts, uninterrupted. She comes to teach, to disappear without vanishing. To slip between the chapters of someone else's life without rewriting her own. Vivienne Langford is already a name on campus-well-liked, well-feared, and rarely understood. She moves like someone who knows every eye is already on her, speaks with a kind of careless precision that leaves people listening long after she's gone. Confident. Mouthy. Brilliant without ever begging to be noticed. There are rumors, of course. Girls like her always collect them. Taylor tells herself it's nothing. That she's in control. That this semester is about literature, not longing. But pages turn. Eyes linger. And Vivienne begins to feel less like a student and more like the story Taylor can't stop reading. Boundaries blur, silence speaks louder than names, and the line between desire and danger becomes paper-thin.