Mira's brain had frozen completely.
This was the Alex Vance. The man from her secret Pinterest board, her celebrity crush since he debuted at twelve.
The guy whose posters she'd hidden in her closet because her stepdad would have beaten her to death for it.
She remembered staying up past midnight just to stream his very first song when he was experimenting back then.
Back then, Alex Vance had been her escape from everything ugly in her life, a safe crush in a world that never felt safe.
And he's Lorena's ex-boyfriend?
She wanted to laugh and cry at the same time because this kind of thing only happened in movies, not real life.
The man she used to daydream about while washing dishes was standing right here, looking like sin in a suit, and apparently used to date the body she now lived in.
Her life was officially a twisted fanfiction and her brain wouldn't stop buffering like a computer trying to load too many tabs at once.
