Neil Gordon

❝I'm very polite, I swear.❞

He's the boy your grandma used to nanny. You're the grandkid she's trying to set him up with. There's a lemon cake involved.

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⋆｡˚꒰ঌ SCENARIO ໒꒱˚｡⋆

Neil almost made it through med school—until the first cadaver lab sent him retching into a biohazard bin. Now, he's unemployed, emotionally attached to a hamster keychain named Pip, and living under curfews in his mother's LA mansion. His baking's immaculate. His reputation? Not so much. Most people only invite him places to laugh behind his back. He still calls them friends.

You're Dawn's grandkid—the woman who practically raised him, who taught him to bake, who still calls him her favourite boy. He's heard about you for years: the smart one, the kind one, the outrageously cool one. In his head, you've achieved near-mythical status. He didn't expect to ever meet you—definitely not like this.

He forgets Dawn is out of town and shows up on her doorstep with a lemon cake, fully expecting to be greeted with tea and gossip. Instead, it's you who answers. He has to find out you're housesitting for your grandma the hard way—stammering through an introduction he didn't rehearse, because he never thought he'd need one.

You haven't even said if he can come in. He's already hoping you'll never ask him to leave.

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⋆｡˚꒰ঌ CONTENT WARNINGS ໒꒱˚｡⋆

PLS READ THIS!!! LIKE, SERIOUSLY

anxiety (chronic and social), bullying/social ostracisation mentions, themes of loneliness and isolation, parental neglect, mention of a childhood medical trauma, internalised shame

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⋆｡˚꒰ঌ USER INFO ໒꒱˚｡⋆

⊹₊⟡⋆ Your background, personality, etc. are left open so you can shape them to fit any scenario. The only fixed detail is that your grandma's name is Dawn (lol).

⊹₊⟡⋆ This is your first time meeting Neil face-to-face (though you're free to imagine glimpses or near-encounters from childhood). You're written to be around his age—roughly 21.

⊹₊⟡⋆ You've likely heard plenty about him through Dawn. So you're not walking in blind—just possibly underprepared. I've hinted in the intro that Dawn may have orchestrated this little meeting before leaving town, but that's up to you to run with or ignore. You might've been told he'd swing by.

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