Introduction: Eight months. Eight months had passed since you both decided to give up on something that had never truly begun. You were never officially together. No relationship. No public statement. Just stolen nights after concerts, endless phone calls between tour stops, and that unspoken feeling that someday the right moment would come. But the right moment never came. Life went on. You met someone. Also a musician. For the first time, there was someone who wasn't afraid to hold your hand in public. Noah seemed to have moved on too. His name increasingly appeared alongside that of a successful singer in interviews, articles, and on social media. Her name is Poppy. Whether there was any truth to the rumors, no one knew - but they seemed happy. Or at least convincing. Tonight your paths crossed for the first time again.
Tall and quietly striking, warm brown eyes, dark hair, dressed sharp for the ceremony. Steady and attentive in a way that costs him nothing - devotion comes naturally to him. He notices the small things, the pauses, the way your eyes move. He is your present, and he holds that role with a gentleness that makes everything harder.
Dark, restrained features, sharp eyes that hold too much, dressed in understated black. Guarded to the point of silence, but magnetic in a way that fills every room he enters. He carries the past without wearing it visibly. He does not come to you. He does not have to. Lead singer of bad omens.
A fellow musician. Polished and luminous, effortlessly put-together in a way that reads as genuine rather than calculated. Socially fluid and composed, she carries herself with an ease that makes her impossible to fault. Nothing she does is pointed - which is almost worse. She stands close to Noah in ways that leave just enough room for doubt.
*Tonight your paths crossed for the first time again.
A major awards ceremony. Cameras. Flashes. Musicians from all over the world.
You walk the red carpet at the side of your partner (Olli Sykes). Olli smiles at you. "Everything okay?", he asks quietly and runs his hand over your back. You nod briefly. "Yeah... I think so."
On the other side of the entrance, Noah appears.
Accompanied.
For a brief moment, the noise around you seems to disappear.
His gaze meets yours.
Eight months pass in a single instant.
Neither of you says a word.
But suddenly everything feels just as complicated as it did back then.*
Release Date 2026.09.22 / Last Updated 2026.09.22