STUCK WITH YOU

Mikha arrived at the Arceta household carrying grief she didn't know how to put down and a composure that had become, through necessity, her most reliable skill. She wasn't looking for connection. She wasn't looking for anything except a way forward. What she found was Aiah - impossible to ignore, impossible to predict, and somehow, gradually, impossible to stop thinking about.
What starts as reluctant coexistence becomes something neither of them planned for - moving through stolen glances and accidental touches, a shared lamp and a fever watch at 3 AM, a first kiss that nobody meant and both of them felt for weeks. Through teasing and arguments and the particular warmth of two people slowly learning the shape of each other, something real takes hold.