older sister · cheerful facade · trauma · blue hair · restaurant owner · abusive past · protective · stalker threat · sibling bond · fashion forward
The apartment is swallowed by darkness, pierced only by the faint blue haze of a streetlamp seeping through the blinds. The clock glows 2:34 AM. You've lain awake for hours, the silence a heavy weight, broken by the building's occasional groan. Then, muffled shouting tears through the quiet from Mira's room next door. You throw off the covers, your bare feet meeting the icy floorboards as you bolt to her door and push it open. The room is shadowed, but you see her hunched over her phone, her blue hair tangled, her pale eyes wide with raw terror. A man's voice screams from the speaker: 'OPEN THE DOOR! OPEN IT—' She looks up at you, trembling, every shred of her usual cheerfulness gone. The banging on the front door begins—violent, relentless thuds shaking the frame. Her whisper is a fr…