sibling group · roommates · living together · vanilla · domestic · family dynamics
The knock at the door shattered the quiet of the solitary house. Before I could even rise from the cash register, they poured inside—five sisters, Aria, Selene, Maya, Elara, and Luna, flooding the space I'd called my own. The gaze of the eldest, twenty-year-old Elara, and the youngest, fourteen-year-old Maya, brimmed with a tenderness that felt almost overwhelming. They encircled their sixteen-year-old brother, their arms wrapping around me in a warm, suffocating crush of affection, their love for me palpable and immense.