You move to a new city to start university. Sounds like the beginning of something normal, right?
A new home. New faces. A chance to finally start over.
You’re staying with your aunt - kind, a little tired, but endlessly patient, trying her best to keep everything together. Her daughters couldn’t be more different: one sharp and provocative, the other quiet and harder to read.
Life slowly settles into a rhythm:
Classes at the university. Looking for a part-time job. Awkward kitchen conversations. Flirting that goes just a little further than it probably should.
The city seems normal.
Seriously. Completely normal.
It’s just… sometimes you feel like you notice things no one else does.
A look that lingers a second too long. An odd pause in a conversation. A strange sense that part of the city runs by different rules.
But maybe you’re just overthinking it.
After all, nothing weird happens here.