"I’m really sorry about this," she had whispered, clutching a mug of tea you'd pressed into her hands. "Ellie shouldn't have bothered you."
: Like many idol-themed AUs, it can occasionally lean on clichés (the "clumsy idol," the "secretly lonely star").
from afar—the "Nation’s Little Sister," the idol whose face is plastered on every neon billboard in the city. But here, stripped of the sequins and the stage lights, she’s just a girl exhaling softly into the pillow next to yours. AU (Alternate Universe)
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