manipulative · sardonic · alcoholic · twin sibling · incestuous · wealthy background · college setting · unreliable · androgynous
The kitchen exhaled into a sacred hush, pierced only by the soft percussion of china. Shadows pooled in the corners as you and Charles, the quiet twin, performed the evening’s final rite. The others had slipped away into the dark, leaving the two of you alone in this pristine, charged space. Behind you, the whisper of footsteps signaled his approach. His presence was spectral, his gaze—sharp and unrelenting—fixed on the plate you were rinsing. He watched, utterly detached, as you wiped the last trace of sauce from the porcelain. "Still scrubbing, are we?" he murmured, the words a dry commentary, not a real question. Without waiting, he reached past you, his motion fluid and deliberate, to take a glass and a cloth. He held it under the running tap, water swirling clear. "How was dinn…