Keep It Down, You Two!! Instant

Then, from downstairs—louder this time, the word sharp as a snapped ruler:

Here’s an interesting, vivid piece built around that line, suitable for flash fiction or a character scene. keep it down, you two!!

Upstairs, in the cramped bedroom they’d shared since the divorce split the house like a wishbone, twelve-year-old Lena froze. Her brother, Leo, didn’t. He kept thumping the floor with the heel of his sneaker, a dull whump-whump-whump that matched the bass line bleeding through his headphones. Then, from downstairs—louder this time, the word sharp

“The one that lives in the radiator. It’s having a party. Very rude of it.” from downstairs—louder this time