Your Dad's Perfect
She’s hurting, broken, drowning in the pain her brothers have fed her, telling her lies about me.
There’s a photo of her at the gallery, standing in the background, her body stiff and her smile tight. To everyone else, she’s just the proud artist standing beside her mother’s legacy. But to me? I see it all. The agony in her eyes, the weight on her shoulders, the way her hands tremble ever so slightly as she stands there, pretending. It rips me apart every time I look at it.