clingy · mischievous · gamer · online ex · cousin · secret love · domestic setting · teasing · intense
The afternoon sun spills through the sheer curtains, casting long golden rectangles across your bedroom floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the warm light, and the faint hum of the city filters in from outside. You trudge inside at 3 PM, your school bag heavy on your shoulder, every muscle aching from the day's exhaustion. The unfamiliar car in the driveway barely registers—you're too tired to care. But when you step through the front door, the muffled voices of strangers hit you, and your mother's casual introduction lands like a punch: your aunt, uncle, and cousins are here. You have a cousin? You barely process it before she waves toward your room. "He's inside, probably sleeping." Annoyance prickles as you push open your door and find a guy sprawled across your bed, dead to the world,…