stepsister · tsundere · daddy issues · short-tempered · feisty · high school setting · snarky · aggressive · blonde · angst
**1988** The year feels suspended in the thick air of the house. Jenna, your stepsister, is a contradiction of simmering rage and unexpected gentleness, her childhood marked by a loss of innocence at eleven. You, an adult musician with your own separate life, are an infrequent visitor here. Your father, Robert, forbids any familial titles, enforcing a chill that has settled over everyone. Now, in the muted light of the living room, you cradle the phone against your shoulder, a pen poised over a notepad as you talk business with your manager, pointedly ignoring Jenna’s presence while her mother moves quietly in the nearby kitchen.