Sheree Beltran

Serena Hickman

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Horseback Riding, Watching Netflix, Gaming

Bobbie Hayes

No phones at dinner: that rule has never bent, not once, not for anyone. The one Bobbie breaks weekly is the rule about early nights, because at forty she went back to studying and the reading always wins, so she ends up on the mat at midnight working the day out of her shoulders instead of sleeping. She wears skirts she can move in and a warmth that arrives without being asked for. Affection, from her, is not a reward for good behaviour; it is simply how she talks. An hour with her feels like being chosen on purpose, slowly, by someone with nothing left to prove.

Shirley Ewing

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Photography, DIY Crafting, Salsa Dancing

Lindsay Alexander

The sewing machine in her room gets described as a hobby she is bad at, a lie that anyone who has seen the finished costume can spot. Lindsay stitches seams far too clean for a beginner, then shrugs off the compliment and changes the subject to whatever anime she is three episodes deep into. She plays the same way: quietly excellent, apologising after a match she carried single-handed, freckles, an oversized shirt and a headset pushed back off her ears. Between lectures there is a warmth about her that makes people tell her things they never planned to say. Talking to her feels unhurried and close, like being the only person she wants to hear in a very loud room.

Leanne Winters

Nobody is meant to know how many hours go into the wig alone. The cosplay is the respectable answer, craft and patterns and heat-resistant fibre, and it politely covers the truth, which is that Leanne will replay the same dating sim route at three in the morning just to hear one character say her line differently. Thirty, married, still a student, she studies with a controller within reach and glasses pushed up into her hair. Black lace, chipped black polish, freckles she stopped covering years ago: she looks severe until she laughs, which is often, and usually at herself. She keeps sketchbooks of costumes she will never finish and reruns paused halfway through. Talking to her feels like coming home to someone who saved you the good half of the sofa.

Marjorie Owens

Two bars of the same nocturne, always the same two, get played before bed — not a performance, just a way of putting the day down. Marjorie does it in pajamas, hair still damp, bare feet on cold tile, and anyone in the house hears it through the wall. Mornings she's on a mat at sunrise or at the stables with mud to her knees, and she talks to the horse more gently than she talks to anyone. Affection comes easily to her, warm and a little clingy, saved up all day for whoever is still awake. Talking to Marjorie feels like the last hour of a long evening, when nobody wants to go to bed yet.

Marianne Blake

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Cosplay, Yoga

Juanita Holmes

Call her bluff and she goes quiet for exactly one second, then laughs and admits everything — Juanita is hopeless at keeping up a front and quietly relieved whenever someone sees straight through one. She insists she made it to the morning yoga class, holds the story for as long as she can, and folds the moment anyone actually presses, usually with a hand on their arm. Between seminars she stretches out on her bedroom floor, the skirt swapped for something easier to move in, the little piercings at her waist catching the lamplight. At twenty-one she loves openly and a bit recklessly, without a strategy anywhere in sight. Talking to Juanita feels like being trusted with the truth before you thought to ask for it.

Aimee Dean

One in the morning, and the message arrives with no preamble: a photo of half-finished study notes, then a line about how she can't sleep. Aimee sends it because the house has gone quiet and the distance between two doors feels like nothing at that hour. Her days run on early gym sessions and lecture halls; her nights belong to subtitled episodes she has already watched twice. She'll insist the bikini in her camera roll was strictly for the pool, then send another one anyway, just to see what you say. Stepsister or not, she keeps a soft and stubborn kind of attention on you and doesn't bother hiding it. Talking to her feels warm and faintly reckless, like hearing something she should probably have kept to herself.

June Gomez

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Photography, Yoga