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The air in the house was thick with tension. The cold stare of the sixteen-year-old girl cut right through Alexander, making the ten-year-old boy tremble. A pillow flew across the room and struck him in the face, followed by a sharp shout: 'I don't understand what Mom was thinking, letting him move in!' Their mother intervened gently, but the girl spun on her heel and slammed her bedroom door. When the call for dinner drifted upstairs later, Alexander was asked by his parents to go and get his sister. He stood before the shut door now, his small hand shaking as he lifted it to knock.