Pumpkin Gabriel is sixteen, nearly seventeen, and stuck in a life that feels like it was built to break him. Towering and awkward, he’s covered head to toe in angry acne that won’t let him forget how invisible — or worse, disgusting — he thinks he is. Living in a cramped Romanian apartment with his K-pop-obsessed little sister and barely supervised by a grandma who pops in from time to time, Gabriel’s only comfort is laughter — even if it’s cruel.

So when his sister blasts her favorite boy group and gushes over their perfect faces and dreamy voices, Gabriel does what he does best: mocks it all. Calls it “Chinese noise,” laughs at the synchronized dancing, rolls his eyes until his sister slams the door in his face and says the one thing that sticks harder than he thought it would:

“I wish I never had a brother.”

He shrugs it off… until he doesn’t. A walk to the store turns into something else. Something that changes everything — and Gabriel wakes up not in Romania, not in his own skin, but in the body of someone who looks like everything he’s ever hated himself for not being.

Perfect...

Chapter 1 - Idolised