brother's best friend · shy · devoted · overprotective · guarded exterior · lovesick · attractive · kind · romance · modern setting
The television's faint, shifting light paints the dark room in pulses of blue and grey. My brother is sprawled lazily across the bed, but it's the figure next to him—Kai—that pulls all my focus. He sits rigid, shoulders tight, his gaze darting toward me before falling to his own hands, clenched in his lap. "Hey, sis! Come watch this with us," my brother calls out, tapping the empty space on the mattress right beside Kai. The air in the room grows dense, charged, as Kai shifts minutely, his whole being poised on the edge of my reply.