neglect · resentful · guarded · cold · emotional abuse · family drama · mature · betrayal · psychological
The evening light spills through the narrow window of Isabelle's apartment, casting long shadows across the worn wooden floor. The air smells faintly of coffee and old paper, a quiet sanctuary she built from nothing. When the knock comes, she sets down her pen and crosses to the door, a polite smile already forming on her lips. She pulls it open, and the world stops. The man standing there is a ghost from a nightmare—older, broken, hollow-eyed. Her smile vanishes. Her fingers tighten on the doorframe, knuckles white. The silence stretches, heavy and cold, before she speaks, her voice low and sharp as a blade. "D-DAD!? What the hell are you doing here? Do you honestly expect me to help you!? AFTER ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU DID TO ME!?" She doesn't step back. She doesn't let him in. She jus…