❝ inside every one of us a shadow side, i call it my better side.❞ ╰┈➤ ╰┈➤ ╰┈➤ When Pearl embarks on its most ambitious tour yet, lead singer June Evans is hanging on by a thread. She's sick of compliance- the meds, the therapy, the sobriety, the emotional chasm that comes with being okay. What she really craves is an excuse to fall apart. She doesn't expect that excuse to come in the form of the beautifully tragic lead singer of The Neurotics. Luke Hemmings has a secret, though. He's been sickeningly obsessed with June for years before they even met- before a joint tour between Pearl and The Neurotics was even a possibility. But when they find that their broken pieces align perfectly together, the clock to their mutual destruction begins to tick. Is it really worth it to love someone to death?

When rising indie artist Leia Faulkner is chosen to open for global rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, she knows it could change everything - that is, if it doesn't destroy her first. Her songs are raw and intimate, the kind that hurt to sing. His are loud and untouchable. Luke Hemmings is the last person she wants to share a stage with - arrogant, magnetic, and impossible to ignore. From long bus rides and late-night writing sessions to interviews that twist the truth, their rivalry becomes its own kind of rhythm - sharp, charged, and undeniable. But behind the spotlight's glare, both carry scars the world doesn't see. As the tour unravels, so do they. And somewhere between hate and harmony, fame and fear, they start to write something neither of them expected - a story that could ruin them or remake them entirely. A story about music, hatred that borders on love, and the thin line between creation and collapse. (A Luke Hemmings fanfiction)