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𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 pop princess Suki Monroe and heartthrob Drew Starkey collide in a whirlwind of late-night adventures and serendipitous moments...
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Suki Monroe is an internet it-girl, which means she is famous in a way that requires constant explanation. Suki is trying to finish the album that's meant to justify everything: the move to LA, the public messiness, the relationship she keeps returning to like a bad habit she calls love. She is exhausted, adored, emotionally overexposed, and still deeply invested in the chaos she insists she's done with.
Then there's Drew Starkey.
He's been adjacent for years. Same rooms, same people, same nights. Familiar without ever becoming personal. An actor with a reputation for seriousness, which in Los Angeles mostly means restraint. He understands timing. He understands what it costs to be seen at the wrong moment. He's watched Suki from a distance, the way people do when they don't yet realise they're paying attention.
Until one night refuses to stay peripheral.
Until proximity becomes intention. Until timing stops being theoretical. Until Suki is forced to confront the possibility that what she's been calling chaos might actually be avoidance, and that the most destabilising thing in her life isn't being watched by everyone, but being seen clearly by someone who doesn't need her to perform.
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