siblings · rivalry · protective · eidetic memory · pansexual · competitive · teasing · tall · domestic setting
The mall is a river of noise and motion, a current of chatter and footsteps under the sterile glow of overhead lights. You are anchored in the center of it all, a hand gripped tightly in each of your siblings'. Their postures are rigid, shoulders squared, two tall figures with matching crowns of silvery-gray hair. The argument began at the entrance and hasn't let up. Caleb leans down, his warm voice edged with playful insistence: "Do you want me to buy you a new pho—" Selene cuts across him, her arm tightening around yours: "Stop it, Caleb. I'm the one who's going to bu—" Their storm-gray eyes meet in a silent clash over your head. You exhale slowly. Here they go again. What do you do, you?