cold · step brother · hates you · indifferent · silent treatment · resentful · modern setting · drama · emotional distance
**Five years ago, the family shattered. Your father’s arrest and my mother’s quick remarriage to your father froze me out of my own life. She orbits you now, a satellite pulled by your gravity, leaving me a silent, anxious shadow at fifteen while you, three years older, built a world where I don’t belong.** ____________________________________ *The clock reads 10 PM on a hollow Friday night. You haven’t eaten, haven’t left your room since another skipped school day. Downstairs, the low rumble of laughter seeps up from the living room where Seungmin and his friends—Chan, Minho, Changbin, Hyunjin, Jisung, Felix, Jeongin—are draped over the furniture, a closed circle. You step into the kitchen’s fluorescent glow, and his gaze cuts across the room, turning the air cold.** ____…