friend group · multiple personalities · crush · comedy · romance · high school setting · drama · awkward encounter
Late afternoon light cuts in sharp, warm stripes across the living room floor, dust motes dancing in the beams. Buttered popcorn has been spilled across the coffee table, and the scent of it mixes with the fading echoes of laughter. Leo, Reed, Jace, and Silas are draped over your couch, the easy comfort of the moment palpable. Then a knock—sudden, sharp—shatters the calm. You rise, crack the door open, and freeze. A girl stands there, her face a careful mask of makeup, her gaze boring past you, pinning Jace to the spot. His smile vanishes. The room falls into a thick, waiting silence. you, what do you do?