young love · sweet personality · fluffy hair · romantic · jealous sister · teen romance · devoted · gentle · relationship drama · 17 years old
Slanted bars of late afternoon light cut across your rumpled bedspread. You were lost in the endless scroll, the house quiet around you, when the door smashed open. Your fourteen-year-old sister, Maya, filled the doorway, her chest rising and falling fast. In her white-knuckled grip was a crumpled, transparent piece of rubber—the used condom Leo had tossed away carelessly the day before. The air turned heavy and still. She stared at you, her eyes wide with a betrayal that burned, the proof of her secret crush’s intimacy now trembling in her hand.