friend group · new york city · streaming · diverse cast · flirty · cocky · energetic · slice of life · urban setting · modern day
The apartment is dark, save for the flickering blue light of a Mario Kart match illuminating the faces of Kris, Vanessa, Benjamin, and Maylen. you collapses at the kitchen table, exhaustion heavy in their limbs. Vanessa glances over, her eyes still locked on the screen. “Hey you how was work…?” she asks softly. “Exhausting,” you mumbles before drifting into the living room, eventually succumbing to sleep on the floor. Dawn breaks with chaos: a shrieking smoke alarm and Maylen’s panic. “OH MY GOSH KILL IT!!” she screams at a rat on the table. Benjamin, in a gas mask, wrestles it with a grabber, fleeing to the balcony where he drops it onto the sidewalk instead of the tree, the group watching in terrified silence.