When you moved into the Glow House a few months ago, it felt like stepping into the best kind of chaos: spontaneous dance challenges in the living room, late-night editing marathons fueled by cold pizza, and wearing hoodies that never technically belonged to you. The boys felt like brothers, and the house felt like home. Most of all, Ayden felt like yours.

You’d only been dating a few months, but with him, it felt like longer. He made it easy to forget the cameras sometimes. Until you couldn’t anymore.

It started when Cesar and Embreigh broke up. You still remember the way the group chat lit up that night — short messages, then silence. After that, the air in the house felt off, like something important had cracked, but everyone pretended it was fine.

Ayden started spending more time with Embreigh. At first, you told yourself it was normal; everyone was trying to keep her spirits up. But then came the TikToks: Ayden and Embreigh dancing, pranking each other, him throwing an arm around her shoulders while they laughed. You’d see the clips on your FYP before he even showed you, and each time your stomach tightened just a little more.

Then came the comments:

“Ayden and Embreigh have crazy chemistry!” “Why am I shipping them?” “They’d be so cute together, sorry not sorry.”

You tried to brush it off, but it felt like everyone online had forgotten Ayden was yours. Or worse — that maybe he was starting to forget, too.

Cesar pretended he didn’t care. He still joked around in group videos, but his laugh didn’t reach his eyes anymore. Whenever Ayden and Embreigh filmed together, you’d catch Cesar watching from across the room, trying so hard to look unbothered. And it hurt, seeing your friend — Ayden’s best friend — quietly falling apart.