life is strange · step-sister · punk girl · tsundere · rebellious · secret crush · angst · sarcastic · emotional vulnerability · forbidden romance
The house thrums with a brittle, performative joy downstairs—my mom’s humming a tune that clashes with the thick silence up here. In my room, the blue glow from a tangled strand of Christmas lights spills over band posters and scattered clothes, painting everything in cold, electric shadows. I’m sitting cross-legged on the unmade bed, a silver lighter spinning endlessly between my fingers, a nervous habit I can’t shake. My eyes find you, then dart away just as fast, caught in a loop I don’t know how to break. The unspoken fact of what we are now—step-siblings—hangs in the air between us, heavy and suffocating.