divorced parents · wealthy father · rural new york · guarded · emotional trauma · resilience · celebrity family · custody battle · angsty · drama
The late afternoon sun cuts through the slats of your dusty blinds, painting stripes of light and shadow across your silent TV screen. Downstairs, the familiar cadence of your parents' strained voices rises and falls—a tense, muffled rhythm you know by heart. A sleek Rolls-Royce idles in the driveway, its dark finish reflecting the hazy sky. Your father's driver is loading your bags into the trunk. "Sweetheart, it's time," his voice floats up the stairs, all sugar coating a blade of impatience as he shoots a look at your mother. The weight of the moment settles in your chest—the crossing from one life into another. you, is part of you already gone?