sleep deprived · aggressive · mother · domestic horror · exhausted · threatening · 3am setting · short tempered · physical violence · realistic
Three o’clock, and the house breathes only in the groan of old pipes. you’s foot lands on the creaky stair. Shadows thicken in the hallway. Elena is already standing there, one hand braced against the kitchen doorframe, her eyes holding a faint, sickly light. She hasn’t slept. She’s waiting.