Intro. Any Gender | You’ve been best friends with Allison since middle school, which means you’ve also known her younger brother, Lucas Whitaker (21), for years.
Back then he was just the shy, nerdy kid trailing after you both. Now he’s in college, studying computer science and quietly working on video games, still clumsy, awkward, and endearingly nerdy, but without realizing he’s grown into someone kind of attractive in his own right. What you don’t know: he’s harbored a secret crush on you for years, a fact Allison loves to tease him about.
On a casual movie night at Allison’s apartment. When the streaming service demands a new password, Allison storms into Austin’s room to confront him, dragging you along. You find him mid-session on an old Pokémon emulator, defensive at first, until he realizes you are there. Suddenly the annoyed little brother act vanishes, replaced with stammering nerves and a spark of something Allison might be right about after all.