INICIAR SESIÓNQuinn Parker has a system: keep her grades up, keep her feelings private, and absolutely never act like the kind of girl who screams over a boy band, no matter how many NEON ATLAS songs she has memorized. So when the group’s lead singer, Jace Wilder, is chased through the arena hallway before a sold out show, Quinn reacts on pure instinct: she yanks him behind a giant fake pot plant, yells his name, and points the stampede of fans in the wrong direction. Jace disappears with security. Quinn goes back to her life. End of story. Except a week later, Quinn lands an after school cleaning job at a luxury rental and opens the door to find Jace Wilder alone, exhausted, and nothing like his shining, onstage self. He tries to flip the charm back on when he realizes she’s the girl who saved him, but Quinn doesn’t buy it. She makes him a coffee, tells him to sit down, and treats him like a normal person for the first time in a long time. Quinn isn’t falling for a fantasy. She doesn’t even know him. But the more time she spends in his offstage world, between rehearsals, rumours, and the pressure to always smile, the harder it becomes to ignore the quiet, real boy behind the spotlight… and the fact that he’s starting to look at her like she’s the only place he can breathe.
Ver másBackstage smelled like heat and hairspray and fresh gaffer tape. It wasn’t glamorous up close, not the way people imagine when they think tour. It was cables coiled in neat loops, laminated lanyards slapped against chests as people jogged past, and voices in headsets saying things like, “Fifteen to doors,” as if time was something you could hold in your hand and squeeze. My lanyard sat heavy against my sternum: CREW — RUNNER/ASSIST. The first night they handed it to me, I kept touching it like it might vanish. Like someone would tap my shoulder and say, Sorry, we meant someone else. But nobody did. Because I wasn’t someone else. I was here on purpose. “Quinn!” Marisol, stage manager, terrifying in the most competent way, called from the production table. She had a clipboard, a headset, and the kind of calm that only comes from having survived a hundred disasters and learned none of them were worth panicking over. I jogged over. “Yep.” She didn’t look up. “We’re doing the alte
That was pretty much how the rest of senior year went. Not dramatic. Not cinematic. Just… intentional. I went to school. I did my assignments. I kept my head down when people tried to turn the hallway into a runway. I stopped reacting to the occasional phone pointed in my direction like it was a weapon. The media didn’t disappear completely, but it got bored when I refused to feed it. Turns out, the fastest way to starve a headline is to keep living like a person. I didn’t start dressing differently. I didn’t suddenly become glossy or curated. I wore what I always wore. I showed up to class with frizzy hair on rainy days and pen marks on my hand from forgetting the cap was loose again. If people wanted “Plant Girl” to become some kind of aesthetic symbol, they were going to be disappointed. I was still just Quinn Parker, trying to graduate, trying to breathe, trying to keep my world mine. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I found something that helped: a hobby that wasn’t abou
Jace called ten minutes after I sent the message. Not a text. Not a casual, what’s up? A call, like the words mattered enough that he needed my face, my tone, proof that I was still here and still his. I answered from my bed with the lamp on low and my textbooks spread open like props I wasn’t using. His screen popped up and there he was, hair damp, hoodie on, eyes too bright in that way that meant his thoughts were already sprinting ahead of him. “Hey,” I said gently. He didn’t say hey back. “Quinn,” he blurted, breath quick. “What did you see? What happened? Are you.” He stopped, like he realized he’d asked the last question wrong, then tried again. “Are you okay?” I watched him for a second, letting myself feel the tenderness under the panic. He looked like someone bracing for impact. “I’m okay,” I said. “I’m just… not loving what I saw.” His jaw clenched. “Tell me.” I inhaled slowly, forcing my voice to stay steady even though my chest still felt sore from earlier. “The
The attention didn’t end the way it started. It didn’t explode and vanish. It thinned. Like fog that clung too long to the grass and then, day by day, lifted, until you could almost convince yourself it hadn’t been there at all. The first week after Blaire’s post, the cameras still hovered at the edges of my life. Outside school, across the street from my house, sometimes even parked too long at the grocery store like someone was waiting for me to do something worth recording. But I didn’t. I kept wearing the same hoodies. I kept tying my hair up the same way when I had a quiz. I kept walking like a person who belonged in her own neighbourhood, because I did. And slowly, painfully slowly, the people hunting for a story realized I was terrible at being one. By the second month, the “reporters” were mostly gone. Not entirely, every so often a phone would still pop up at the worst moment, someone trying to catch me off guard but the big energy had drained out of it. The crowd h


















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