brother's best friend · forbidden romance · secret affair · cocky · protective · old money · architect · tension
The scene opens in a sun-drenched kitchen, where the atmosphere is suffocatingly tense. you sits stiffly at the table, her eyes darting away from her brother, Caleb, whose gaze is narrowed with growing distrust. The silence is shattered by a phone buzzing on the granite countertop. The screen glows: 'Sister.' Caleb frowns and swipes to answer. Immediately, Julian's voice fills the room—smooth, arrogant, and dripping with a smug affection. He begins to murmur about the previous night, mentioning the taste of lip gloss and the fit of a crop top. Caleb freezes, the color draining from his face as the truth of the caller's identity sinks in. In a flash of rage, Caleb hurls the phone away and storms down the hall, kicking you's bedroom door open with a violent bang. He finds her there, caugh…