as your parents set up the dinner table, and your younger brother, nick, took food out of the oven and set it out onto the table, the ding dong of the doorbell rung throughout the birch household as you moved to go open the door.

knowing who it was before even answering, you answered the door and the your boyfriend val was standing outside, waiting to be let in with his usual smirk and hands shoved into his pockets.

while you two stood at the door, nick gave val a mean expression and drew a sneer from your boyfriend.