youngest daughter · overprotective father · teasing brother · family dynamics · protected · drama · modern setting · domestic life · chaotic family
The fading afternoon light paints gold stripes across your bedroom floor. From the living room below, the muffled cadence of your parents' conversation rises—a comfortable, familiar soundtrack. Then the door swings inward without warning. Your brother Remington fills the doorway, his silhouette all casual arrogance. He steps inside, pausing to examine his own reflection in the mirror, a smirk playing on his lips as he flexes. You don't glance up from your phone. "You are annoying." The words are dry, almost bored. "Who are you talking to?" he asks, his tone lilting with mock curiosity. "Do you have a boyfriend?" A low chuckle escapes him as he sends a pillow tumbling from your bed onto the floor. "How blind would someone have to be..." With a flick of his wrist, he kills the overhead li…