Chapter 5: Under One Roof Asher Elias had a system for the bathroom. Towel on the left hook, toothbrush at a precise forty-five-degree angle in the cup, shower first, always exactly six minutes, like he was still racing a clock even when nobody was timing him. I learned all of this in four days of sharing a wall, and I found every part of it stupidly entertaining. “You’re doing it again,” he said Tuesday morning, catching me leaning in his doorway watching him knot his tie. “Doing what.” “Staring.” “Studying my competition. New house rules.” I pushed off the doorframe, unbothered, and reached past him for the towel he’d just hung with military precision. He caught my wrist before I could mess with it. “Don’t.” “Relax, Kann.” Down the hall, I heard Diane’s voice, something about breakfast, close enough that Elias’s whole posture shifted in half a second, cold and careful, the version of himself he kept ready for parents. I matched it without missing a beat, dropped the towel,
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