JENNIFER
"Take care, honey," my mother's voice, soft yet firm, echoed as the driver meticulously loaded their luggage into the car's trunk. She wrapped me in a warm, reassuring embrace. "Please, be kind to Luca and try to avoid any fights, alright?"
I nodded, though part of me felt Mom should direct those words to Luca himself. He hadn't uttered a word to me since yesterday after our argument in the kitchen, and I hadn't seen him this morning, not even during breakfast. I preferred it that way, though it did little to ease the gnawing anxiety about the prospect of those videos ending up on the student forum. I had checked and rechecked but found nothing, yet I couldn't shake the feeling that he might have posted them elsewhere. His silence was unnerving.
As my mother smothered me wit
