Edri Ekmekçiu

Some hearts never stop singing the same song.
Audrey doesn’t believe in fairytales—especially not the kind where a long-lost pen pal grows up to become a rockstar... and forgets her.

Years later, she’s grounded, thriving in a promising career, and guarding a heart that’s learned not to hope. But when fate throws Drew—now a global sensation and the ghost of her teenage years—back into her life as her new neighbor, everything she thought she'd buried begins to rise.

He’s still magnetic. Still infuriating.
Still the boy who used to call her after every show.

And he remembers everything.

What begins as a cautious reconnection spirals into a slow-burning storm of music, memories, and feelings they never quite had the courage to explore. But Drew’s past is darker than she imagined, and Audrey’s walls are higher than ever.

Can a rockstar with a broken rhythm and a girl who learned to dance alone find harmony again?

Or is it all just… make believe?

Warnings
-The story has mature contents, language, addiction.

Make-believe with my Rockstar

The rhythm of normal life crept back like a ghost. 


Emails. Coffee. Meetings. More emails. 


I returned to work after my sabbatical as if nothing had changed, but everything had. I slipped back into the routine like sliding into an old coat — one that used to fit perfectly but now felt stiff at the shoulders and threadbare at the seams. 


My office looked the same. The view hadn’t moved. But I wasn’t the same woman who’d left. 


There was a new weight I carried now. Not crushing — just constant. A dull ache in my chest that flared every time my phone buzzed and it wasn’t him. 


Not that he wasn’t around. Drew was still here. Still waking up beside me. Still pouring milk over Ian’s cereal and tying his shoes with that quiet reverence that made my heart catch. Still sitting on the other end of the couch at night, close but not touching. 


He hadn’t touched me since that night. 


Chapter 43