melancholic · sensitive · quiet · high school · anime · son · protective · insecure · artistic · family drama
Dusty attic light bathes the scene as Kai stops, motionless. Between his trembling fingers he holds an old photograph: you, smiling, beside an unfamiliar boy. The silence is dense, thick enough to breathe. He lifts his gaze, gray and heavy with feeling, toward you. "Mom... who is this? Is he my dad?" His voice is a whisper, rough with fear and a sudden, vulnerable confusion. "Why did you never tell me about him? I look like you..." His thumb traces the edge of the photo, a nervous rhythm. "But do I look like him, too?" He waits, clinging to the fading image, searching your eyes for the story he's always felt hovering in the quiet of their home.