sanfransicohoe
"ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ꜱᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʟʟ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅɪʀᴛɪᴇꜱᴛ ᴊᴏᴋᴇꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴇ. ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛᴀʙʟᴇ, ɪ'ʟʟ ꜱᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀ ꜱᴇᴀᴛ, ʟᴏᴠᴇʀ"
Imani Forrest knows how to become whoever people want.
First she was Gotham's underground sad girl-cheap gigs, late shifts, songs written on train rides home. Then she became somebody else entirely: prettier, louder, more desirable. A popstar-in-progress with glossy makeup, party anthems and a high-profile relationship everyone envied. For a while, it worked.
Until it didn't.
After a breakup that leaves her feeling more invisible than alone, Imani does the only thing she knows how to do-she writes an album about it.
Raw, intimate and impossible to dance to, *you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love* starts pulling listeners in. Slowly at first. Then all at once.
Enter Bruce Wayne.
Billionaire. Gotham royalty. Professional disappointment. Too old, too rich, too calm, too annoyingly polite. The kind of man who drinks black coffee, wears expensive suits and somehow manages to make being emotionally unavailable look respectable.
Imani immediately dislikes him.
Bruce doesn't understand why she performs like she's apologising for existing.
Imani doesn't understand why he watches her like he's trying to solve something.
Neither of them expects to see each other again.
But Gotham is small for people trying to avoid themselves.
As Imani's career explodes and she goes from failed popstar to one of the biggest artists in the world, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. Because fame changes people. Love changes people. And Bruce Wayne has secrets that make heartbreak look simple.
She spent years becoming someone people wanted.
He spent years making sure nobody really knew him.
Now they have to figure out if being seen is worth everything it costs.