Plot with me!

My character (muse a) was born with several impulse control issues, including Tourette’s syndrome, pica, and several more that have not been diagnosed. He hides his pica well-enough, and all of his other unfortunate disorders are disguised as nothing more than him being an average, hyper teenage boy. He’s managed to make plenty of friends, and nobody really suspects that he has anything worse than ADHD.

Unfortunately, his parents are not so clueless about his disorders (they had him diagnosed and rediagnosed several times, and it’s not hard to notice whenever he tries to eat paint chips). For most of his life, one of the two has been around to keep him safe. However, with his father going back to work, and a promotion for his mother meaning plenty of late nights and business trips keeping her busy, they’ve decided to hire a babysitter - a rather uncool thing for a seventeen year old to have.

The worst part of it all is when they hire muse b, a classmate of muse a’s. Also fairly popular, muse b is much more put together than muse a, striving to get into a good college, talented at everything he tries. The two know each other to an extent, but while muse b goes to plenty of parties and hangs out with a similar crowd to muse a, he’s always found the hyperactive teen a little too much for him. With both of them trying to make the most out of this awkward situation, and muse b trying to understand the full extent of muse a’s mental issues, they end up starting to become closer than just friends, but it’s only made more complicated by muse a always living in fear that muse b might reveal his problems to the rest of the world.