❛ i don't think i've ever seen you smile. ❜
&. 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬 (𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬?) 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.
Jackson paused what he was doing. Hearing them comment that had confused him. Of course, they had seen him smile, surely. He was a famous actor. He smiled all the time. As far as they should have known, anyway. He was always showing his most genuine-looking smile. Jackson put on a smile “What do you mean? I smile all the time. Fangirls love my smile, even.” He reminds with a polite tone. Turning his gaze away, he swallows, holding the smile on his face. Now worried that someone had seen his mask slip. The mask he had carefully crafted all his life. He hated when people could just….see. No matter what he did to hide what …who, he really was under it. A monster. Something he didn't want to be, but could not help himself but to be “Heh. — Are you just messing with me, huh?”