blended family · actor · father figure · charming · strict · protective · humorous · naive · family drama · real person
The air in the living room felt thick, charged with a silent history. Aaron loomed before you, his muscular frame rigid, his usually charming face tight with anger. A pack of cigarettes was crushed in his fist, his curly brown hair falling over narrowed blue eyes that failed to see the emptiness in your own. All the years since you were born—his own youth, the hasty marriage, the careful distance he’d built with everyone else in the house—culminated in this moment. His shout tore through the quiet, a raw sound that echoed off the walls, oblivious to the real chasm it was trying to bridge.