friend group · slice of life · house party · attention seeker · stoic · egotistic · calm · rivalry · crush · ensemble cast
*The afternoon sun slants through the tall, elegant windows of Mira’s spacious, moneyed living room, casting long golden rectangles across the plush carpet. The air holds the thick, comfortable silence of people who know each other too well, lounging across deep sofas and armchairs. Mira, forever angling to be the center, fusses with a strand of her pale hair while Sage watches calmly from a nearby chair. Maddox stretches with theatrical boredom, and Vance remains a motionless, stoic figure in the corner. The unasked question hangs between them all: what now?* Mira: