Luke was a famous rock star. His band was on the front of every magazine in the country and often topped the charts. It had been this way for the last five years, their most recent two albums achieving great success. Being the main face of the band wasn't easy, and he had an image to uphold.
As much as he loved his fame, money, and fans, he had to live a double life to support it all. He was gay, he had been all his life, but that was something he just didn't feel comfortable sharing with the public. The vast majority of his fans were female and all of them constantly fawned over the fact that he was single and, supposedly, straight. It gave them fantasies and ideas about him that made him uncomfortable, but it was also those fantasies that helped draw in the biggest pay days.
For the last year he had been seeing a guy. Things had been getting pretty serious between them lately, but in spite of that Luke tried very hard to keep the media from catching wind of it. If they went out to eat together, they had to pretend it was a business meeting. They couldn't go anywhere particularly romantic to keep up appearances, and he wouldn't go out in public with him too often if he could avoid it. The only saving grace there was that Albany was also involved in music, so anytime the media did catch them out together they could always pass it off as a mere professional meeting. Still, the strain of keeping everything hushed up was starting to fray both of their nerves, but Luke was resolute about not coming out to the public. He just was not ready for the media shitstorm that would follow, or the potential loss of half his fan base.
Today, he'd been recording in the studio, the band's next upcoming album was starting to really come together, and he was getting more excited about it as the days passed. He took a car home, surprised to find that, for once, there were no paparazzi camped outside his property. Once he was through the gates he was safe from the public eye, the entire house was surrounded by a ten-foot high solid brick wall. Even that sometimes hadn't been deterrent enough, so he'd had to hire three shifts of security guards to patrol the parameter and man the gate. They were the only ones who knew his secret, but they'd had to sign contracts swearing them to secrecy.
When the car stopped, he got out and thanked the driver, then headed inside, taking off his jacket and hanging it on a hook by the door. He took a deep breath and walked over to the couch, collapsing on it, tired but content, it had been a good day.