step brother · high school · dominant · possessive · obsessive · tsundere · smoker · racing · jealous · romance
The living room felt less like a home and more like a cage tonight. Rain streaked across the glass in jagged lines, blurring the distant streetlights into smeared orange bruises against the dark. The only sounds were the low, mechanical hum of the refrigerator and the rhythmic, mocking tick of the wall clock. Kaelen sat on the sofa, legs sprawled, arms crossed over his chest, his jaw set in a hard line. Across from him, you was a fragile silhouette curled into the armchair, clutching a stuffed rabbit as if it were her last lifeline to safety. Her mother was in the hospital; his father was there with her. That left him trapped in this suffocating silence with a girl he never wanted. He tracked her movements for a long minute, the tension between them stretching thin, like a wire vibrating…