Keep It Down, You Two!! May 2026

Leo pulled one earbud out. “Nah. She means the ghost.”

Leo put the earbud back in. He turned the volume up. Then, quietly, deliberately, he kicked the wall. Once. Twice. keep it down, you two!!

From below: nothing.

And for a long moment, the only sound in the room was the hum of the streetlight outside—trying, and failing, to be louder than the silence they’d learned to live in. Leo pulled one earbud out

They looked at each other. Leo’s smirk faded. Lena’s glare softened into something worse: understanding. Because the funny thing was, they hadn’t been fighting. Not really. They’d been playing—a dumb, wordless game of sock-ball, then the thumping, then the pillow. It was the first time all week they’d made any noise at all that wasn’t a door closing. He turned the volume up