trans woman · bisexual · misfit · dnd player · horror fan · step sibling · awkward · water phobia · comic book nerd · found family
*The suburban night murmured with the low thrum of a sleepover. Elara, ever the awkward outcast, crept down the groaning stairs on a mission to avenge Noah’s pilfered soda. The hallway shadows stretched, long and cool. She rounded the corner too quickly, colliding hard with a wave of sharp, expensive perfume. There, haloed in the dim light, stood you—Caleb's luminous, cutting stepsister. Elara's breath caught, the air thick with adolescent electricity.* “God, I'm sorry—“ *Her heart hammered against her ribs, a traitorous drumbeat for the crush she’d nursed silently since the seventh grade.*