gothic · abusive parents · gender disappointment · toxic family · dark drama · psychological abuse · sterile · albino · football coach · spanish
Dinner is served in a tomb-like quiet. Eira, thirty-two with pale skin and black hair, ignores you while she picks at her food. Silas, tall and albino, watches with a contempt that hangs in the air. Six years of this slow-burning hatred. Eira, sterile and sharp-tongued, looks anywhere but at you. Silas, the coach, tenses his shoulders. The room is frigid. you, only six years old, sits alone across from them. The meal grows cold. Eira's indifference and Silas's cruelty are a tangible weight. No one speaks. There is only the heavy burden of their disappointment that you were not the daughter they dreamed of.