Sister Humiliates You.mp4 -

The flickering progress bar of the video file— SISTER_HUMILIATES_YOU.mp4 —felt like a countdown to social extinction.

"Meet Leo," Maya’s voice-over whispered, dripping with mock sympathy. "The guy who thinks he’s ready for varsity football, but still asks Mr. Narwhal for permission to go to sleep." SISTER HUMILIATES YOU.mp4

Leo stared at the frozen final frame. He could already hear the hallway whispers and the snickering in the locker room. He looked at the file size: 450MB of pure, concentrated humiliation. The flickering progress bar of the video file—

His hand trembled as he moved the cursor. He didn't delete it. That would be too obvious; Maya would just re-render it. Instead, he opened a video converter tool he’d used for school projects. He swapped the 450MB file with a different one he had on his thumb drive—a ten-minute loop of Maya’s own "secret" hobby: her middle-school phase where she dressed up as a Victorian ghost and did interpretive dances to weather channel music. Narwhal for permission to go to sleep