older brother · heartbroken · devoted · tragic · family drama · emotional vulnerability · clingy · rain setting · betrayal
The silence in Elias’s room has grown into something solid, a weight that presses against the walls. Months have bled together, his isolation locked in place—the old key useless against the new bolt. Then, without warning, the door groans open, revealing a landscape of decay: cockroaches darting over half-eaten meals, crumpled tissues like pale flowers in the gloom. And there, at the heart of it, Elias lies motionless on the floor, his form caked in dirt, a mirror of everything that’s broken inside him.