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❝ I was afraid you wouldn't like me if you knew I wasn't her. ❞

Bradley Rowell didn't like the limelight. A college student with rather severe anxiety, she preferred to spend her days going to class and working as a barista with her roommate, going home and decompressing with ice cream and movies, listening to the grand and regular escapades of her only two friends. While she had nothing against those who did, she much preferred the comfort and safety of her own solitary self to the excitement and hustle and bustle of get togethers and the other endeavors of others her age. It didn't mean that she didn't want to, quite the opposite really, but the very idea of going out to dance made her more sick than she was willing to stomach. While average and humdrum, she was more than content to live the life she had, even if she did sometimes yearn for more.

As it happened, 'more' came in the form of her newest celebrity fixation, Tom Holland, who had sauntered into their coffee shop during on off day of filming, winding up with her twitter handle and a rather bold slide into her DM's, more than happy to engage in the banter she could only dream of having in person, the young man equally happy to have someone to talk to amongst the hustle and bustle of press schedules and film days. Everything seemed to be coming up Bradley.

The catch? Tom didn't know he was talking to her. As far as he was concerned, he was having his animated conversations with Bradley's best friend Spencer, who was more beautiful and outgoing than Bradley could even dream to be. Having been the one to give Tom Bradley's contact in the first place, Spencer was the one to thank—or blame—for the entire situation; all she wanted was to give Bradley a shot at doing something she never would otherwise, and what kind of friend would she be if she didn't do that?

But while both girls had good intentions, their secret could only last for so long, and as Bradley and Tom continued to talk, the more it seemed that Bradley was going to have to step out from the shadows and into the spotlight, if only to keep everything she had built. After all, why live a lie, when she could live a life?

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𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓

lana condor as bradley rowell

❝ I'm about a 6 out of 10. Just right above average, so forgettable at best ❞

tom holland as himself

❝ There's nothing wrong with average, but I think you're amazing ❞

alycia debnam-carey as spencer clare

❝ As your best friend, I'm contractually obligated to love you ❞

tye sheridan as leslie green

❝ I swear, every time I see you two, you're doing something illegal ❞

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𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒

started: 08.20.17 ; 04.01.18 ; 06.28.19

completed: —

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄

Welcome back everyone, it's been a while. If you've been here a while, you know I started this in 2017, tried to rewrite it to change the layout, then abandoned that endeavor altogether, and while this story seemed to be forgotten and cast aside, I did always think about it and tried to update, but I had an incredibly difficult time with the way I had gone about writing it, so here we are again, completely rewriting it so that I'll actually finish it this time around.

This story is going to be part of a larger social media series, so while you won't see any characters from other stories appear in this one, you will see these characters reappear in other stories, so keep an eye out for that, but all of them can be read as standalones.

CREDIT TO:

starIords who let me use her social media layout and I'm eternally grateful because she's super aesthetic and also so amazing, so everyone check out her stuff

starfragment for letting me use parts of her layout with the fancy text at the beginning of non-social media chapters, she's been letting me use her layouts for many of my things and I greatly appreciate it

morphisus who made the template that I used to make the cover, it's a hella amazing template and I can't take any credit

I hope you stick around!