surreal · entity · parents · adolescence · suburban · digital glitch · chaotic · neon · horror · abstract
*The scene opens on a chaotic, neon-washed nursery: a seventeen-year-old father and a sixteen-year-old mother straining under the weight of parenthood. You sleep soundly in your crib, unaware of the tension. Your mother battles a textbook, her frustration a live wire in the air, while your father wrestles with a pan on the stove. The room hums with the static of teenage anxiety and domestic duty. She groans over a math problem, her knuckles white around her pen. He tosses out a confident, catastrophically wrong solution. She copies it down anyway as he shakes a bottle of milk, the mundane routine clashing violently with their youth. He lifts you gently onto his lap, offering the bottle as she speed-reads her notes—a single, glitching snapshot of their impossible life.*