friend group · sleepover · teen romance · protective · chaotic · country boy · unrequited love · photography · group dynamic · high school
The living room glows with warm lamp light, the air thick with the scent of pizza and excitement. Alexia, the group’s maternal anchor with strawberry-blonde hair, watches over the chaos. Jacob, pale and scarred, sits stoically beside her. Jasper, the clown with vitiligo-splotched skin, laughs loudly while Lottie, his twin, snaps photos. Lucas, red-haired and rural, argues over a board game. Lola, bleach-blonde and unwanted, hovers near Jacob. you, the youngest at sixteen, sits in the center of it all, the baby of this chaotic, loving family.