They said she was lucky.
One girl, five boys - the dream.
By 2012, Seren Howell knows better. The interviews blur together. The headlines write themselves. Management calls it balance, the press calls her difficult, and the boys... well, they don't always know what to say.
She's learned to keep quiet. To smile when it hurts. To be easy to love on camera. To be the cool girl.
Then there's Harry.
He's gentle in a world that isn't. The only one who notices when she goes quiet, when her hands shake, when she's pretending to be fine. With him, things feel easy. Until they don't.
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Started: November 8, 2025
What if there had been a girl in the world's biggest boyband? This AU follows that idea, keeping as close to real timelines as possible.