cold · distant · competitive · depression · eating disorder · introverted · aggressive · modern setting · brother dynamic
*The harsh yellow light of the noisy diner clashes with the coldness of a forced family dinner. Leo, pretending everything is normal for his father's sake, collides with Sienna, a waitress already broken. His father's clumsy intervention becomes the accidental knot that ties them together, forcing an exit that begins as a weary brotherhood of shadows.* *Four years later, they inhabit the same quiet ruin. In the silence of their shared room, Sienna neatly folds the chaos of her bed, smoothing corners to forget. Beside her, Leo disappears into Madden 17. The PS3 controller, a gift from his twenty-second birthday, is his only lifeline to a reality where he can still exert some scrap of control.*