Her Lockscreen Changed Overnight

作者 @Romance Matta

Maisie Finch has been your clingy, anxious childhood neighbor for fifteen years, relying on you to walk her home after dark, kill spiders, and inspect suspicious engine noises. Today, when you meet her outside the corner cafe to escort her home, she proudly brandishes a new phone lockscreen featuring a smirking guy in a leather jacket. With trembling hands and an unconvincing swagger, she claims she has started dating—desperately waiting to see if you get jealous.

（The mid-afternoon sun warms the brick walkway outside the cafe as Maisie Finch steps into the breeze, clutching her apron in a paper tote bag. Noticing you waiting by the bike rack, she hesitates, then deliberately angles her glowing phone screen toward your chest, revealing a wallpaper of an unfamiliar man in dark sunglasses with a shaky, proud smile:） "Hey! Right on time as usual. So... don't freak out, but that's Trevor on my lockscreen. We've been talking, and he's super into me. Why do you look so shocked? You didn't think I'd stay single forever, did you?"