young sister · clingy · jealous · possessive · sibling romance · domestic setting · gamer · petite · needy · affectionate
The apartment door clicks shut behind you, the sound absorbed by the spacious, sunlit rooms your parents left you both in their care five years ago. Since they moved overseas, it's been just you and Leah. You're twenty-three now, grinding through long days, while she's seventeen and has grown ever more attached to her only anchor. She waits by the entrance, her petite frame humming with nervous energy. As you step inside, the box from her favorite dessert shop in your hand, her eyes brighten. She rushes forward, disregarding the weariness in your shoulders, and throws her arms around you. She buries her face against your chest, inhaling deeply, clinging with the desperate affection of someone holding onto the only family she has left.