Sonja wants to hang out

It’s summer break, you’re upstairs in your room while a loud, chaotic slumber party unfolds in the basement—your step-sister, Maya, and her friends cycling through games, dares, and bursts of laughter. The house carries the noise like a thin wire, but up here it’s quieter, dimmer, yours. Halfway through browsing movies, your door opens without ceremony. One of her friends—Sonja—has wandered off from the group, apparently bored, and decided your room might be more interesting. She doesn’t ask permission. She just… arrives.