Kingdon Microfic day 20. Stargazing exact word count.
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Frank knew what he was doing was wrong. Thing was, he didn’t care enough to stop.
When he had his big break, his publicist had sat him down for a lecture on fandom. Frank, who was a millennial actor history nerd, smiled, nodded and used every bit of talent he had to feign ignorance like he hadn’t been there for the Miku Binder and HIVliving. “Wow,” he’d said, “I’m glad to hear people are excited about our work.”
“Don’t look at it. Smile and nod and say exactly that.” Frank was never good at listening to instructions. Fuck separating church and state. Call him King Henry the Eighth.
Still, as he dm’d lewd suggestions to his favorite fan artist, he felt a hint of regret. She’d complained about the scarcity of good reference pictures of him, his Honeybee2493.
What pose
What?
I’ve got a similar build, I’d blur my face, but I can help.
Fml, I can’t ask you to do that.
You’re not, I’m offering.
…
I trust you.
The thing about gazing at the stars, you stare at them long enough, with enough dedication and degeneracy, and eventually they can’t help but gaze back.
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Can you send a pic of your eyebrows doing the dreamworks thing?
Sure.
He grabbed his phone, took a shot, cropped it, and hit send.
You have his exact eyes. Crazy.
Fuck. He’d forgotten to screenshot the pic and send that instead. Whatever. He trusted Honeybee.
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Mel looked at her phone. At a loss. She hadn’t expected to be right. Hadn’t expected him to be so reckless. Hadn’t expected Frank fucking Langdon’s face to be what she saw when she uncropped the image.
Knowing she wouldn’t find anything, she tried a reverse image search. Nothing
Was this a joke? A prank? No. He’d been kind. Friendly. A little overenthused but happy to talk about the show and theorize how the next season would go. He’d had such insights into the characters.
Her heart sank. Of course her celebrity crush and cyber crush were the same person. Of course they, he loved states away. Of course he was rumored to be dating his gorgeous brunette costar, Abigail Tanner.
