Pierce Me

The pop idol. Everyone knows my name. Everyone knows my story, how I started from nothing and shot to stardom within the past year. I sell our stadiums within hours after announcing a new tour. I have everything, or so people think. What they don’t know is that everything is fake. My music, my success, my smiles. Even my name. I had to change it four years ago, when a girl broke my heart and ruined my life. I am starting a new tour in a few months, and I need at least five new songs. Problem is? I can’t write a single note. I am blocked. The hired help. I met her when we were both sad teens, each lost in our own tragedies. But with her, I came alive. We forged a bond that I thought would last a lifetime. I used to look at her and think that I could never stop. Then, one day, she told me she never wanted to see me again. And now, four years later? My team of assistants (ex-assistants, I should say, as they will all be fired soon) have hired an English lit student to help me out of my creative block. She is good, they say, she has won awards for her poetry. A genius of her generation. But when I see her? It’s her. The girl who destroyed me. The girl who stopped loving me on a whim and disappeared, taking my dreams with her. It’s four years later, and it’s four years too soon to be seeing her again. She pierced my heart. She ruined my life. I hate her. But when I look at her, she’s not the girl I hate: She is the girl who used to be my reason for existing. Pierce Me is a second-chance angsty romance about a pop idol and the girl who destroyed him. Prepare to be destroyed. The darkness will be off the charts with this one -but so will the hope be. So will the heat. And so will the love.