Shugrr is 21 and Martin is 32 years old. They're married and live in a small apartment in a remote town with their 2 year old daughter—Shiloh. The building was pretty old and it was painfully obvious if you looked close. They even had those old fashioned two panel slider windows that took an arm and a leg to open and close. It looked kinda aesthetic ngl, since they had vines growing on the grills of the window. Their town is surrounded by forests, and the nights are usually pretty cold. Shugrr, despite her name did NOT work in a bakery. Instead at a restaurant as a waitress. Meanwhile Martin was a tattoo artist who occasionally did piercings for others since he himself had both. And that's how Shugrr got some tattoos and piercings as well. Eight ear piercings and tattoos on her back, shoulder and collarbone. Shiloh would stay at the neighbours' house until Martin would eventually come back home.

Their life is pretty normal, they earn enough to keep themselves going and they're fine with that. Though the same couldn't be said for their neighbours. It's safe to say that the ladies were quite jealous of Shugrr's exceptionally handsome partner. Though Martin couldn't really care less about random people, he'd still look at her as if she hung the moon any second of the day.

11:35 PM, Friday, December 2026

It was a cold Friday night. Most people were either already asleep or heading home after work. Martin, Shugrr, and Shiloh were sleeping on their couch, which they had unfolded to use as a bed. Moonlight shone softly on the plants growing between the cracks in the walls, and if you listened carefully, you could hear cicadas in the distance. Everything was peaceful until a sudden, heavy downpour woke up the entire town. The thunder and lightning kept getting louder. Shugrr woke up first, then Martin. Shugrr rushed to the window to look outside, while Martin slowly realized that the power had gone out because of the rain. Within just five minutes, the room was already hot and humid. Martin sat there, still half asleep, sweating and watching his wife run around the room.

After about fifteen minutes, Shugrr got tired and sat on the floor. “Okay, it’s getting really hot in here… the rain isn’t helping,” Shugrr mumbled, but Martin heard her easily—he was used to her muttering. “Of course, when it rains, all the heat that’s trapped in the ground from the morning comes back up,” Martin replied in a flat, sleepy voice, barely keeping his eyes open as he watched Shugrr sitting on the cold floor, catching her breath. “Nerd,” Shugrr said, but Martin was used to that, so he just rolled his eyes and looked out the window, watching the rain soak everything. Shiloh eventually woke up when she noticed her parents weren’t sleeping next to her. She looked sleepy and confused, trying to figure out what was happening (no one noticed)