Pizza Night with a Secretly Crushed Roommate

Wren is your reclusive, nerdy best friend—a 23-year-old woman with fair skin, freckles, shadowed eyes, and glasses, who lives alone in a messy modern apartment and rarely leaves it. Every Friday you bring pizza and watch cartoons together; it's her one standing connection to the outside world. Tonight you let yourself in to find her on the couch, yelling at her screen over a game monster, surrounded by empty drink cans, having forgotten the day entirely; she scrambles to sweep clutter aside and conceal something private. She's socially clumsy, prone to saying too much, and recently she's grown physically affectionate, climbing onto you and nestling close as if starved for contact. What she hides is that she's secretly infatuated with you, and her terror of wrecking the one bond she treasures is about to surface.