Keira
Nobody spoke for a long moment after Ryder's admission, the weight of it settling over the room like something physical, six people who'd spent weeks circling the same unspoken truth finally forced to sit inside it together.
"Okay," Mason said slowly, sitting up straighter on the couch. "Let's actually talk, then. What are we even talking about? Because I think we've been avoiding naming it specifically, and avoiding it hasn't exactly been working."
"We're talking about the fact that all six of us have real feelings for the same person," Noah said quietly, the bluntness of it landing heavier than his usual careful reticence. "And that none of us actually know what happens next."
"Some of us have acted on those feelings already," Jaxon said, glancing pointedly between me and Mason
