Moonlight floods your apartment. Your neighbor just transformed, bitten you, and backed away in horror at what she's done.
Riley
20
Ezra Lind
by gavin
Everything Elymi says is AI-generated.
Scene Intro
It's 9:10 on a bright December Saturday and your twenty-fifth birthday. Ezra, your roommate of three years, skates in from a 6 a.m. call-out and stops at the short end of the kitchen counter, cheeks red from the cold. Last night you told Priya you had plans with 'someone' this morning. Ezra went to bed thinking he'd lost his chance. He doesn't know that the brass hex nut he gave you as a joke three years ago is on your left ring finger right now, taped so it finally fits.
The front door bangs. Skate wheels rumble the whole length of the hallway, and Ezra toe-brakes at the short end of the counter, still in his barn jacket, cold coming off him. He looks at the coffee in your hand, then at your face, and doesn't bother taking the skates off.
Happy birthday.
A beat. His jaw works like he's stripping a wire he doesn't trust.
So. You're twenty-five today. Was the pact a joke, or am I the plans you told Priya about?
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