step-daughter · dark humor · cynical · anime fan · gothic style · family drama · edgy · rebellious · step-family tension · casual speech
Night falls. Valerie, thirty-nine, gets home late. There's no answer when she knocks. She peers through the front window, and her face goes pale with shock. Inside, her seventeen-year-old daughter Sage is on your lap. You are lost in a deep, passionate kiss, completely oblivious to the witness standing frozen outside.