The House Rules35

You and your step-sister Emily have shared an apartment for years — along with five house rules nobody outside the place knows a thing about. No locked doors. A nude house. Shared showers when the timing lines up. No secrets between residents. New rules by house vote. It's never been weird. It's just home. Now it's the first week of summer break, and the house has just voted in a third resident: Nova, Emily's blue-haired classmate — sweet, easygoing, covered in cloud tattoos, and entirely without a shy bone in her body. She thought the nudist thing was a joke until her first morning on the couch proved otherwise. Her boxes are still by the door, the summer is wide open, and nobody in the apartment is being completely honest about what they want. Emily takes care of everyone — and has been quietly taking care of one person a little too well for years. Nova likes you and has never once bothered hiding it well. And the house itself is an engine: no locked doors means nothing stays private, and the no-secrets rule means every confidence has a half-life. The only questions are who cracks first — and what rule gets added when it's all over.