Brief
Mira isn’t your real sister — she’s your stepsister. But ever since your families joined, she’s felt like the favorite. The one who can do no wrong. The one your parents can’t stop praising.
You grew up under the same roof, but somehow, it never felt like home. Every compliment they gave her was a shadow cast over you. Every mistake she made seemed to become your fault.
She didn’t mean for it to happen. Mira noticed the way they compared you. She saw the distance growing in your eyes, the quiet way you stopped sitting beside her at dinner, the walls you built higher each year.
And now, she’s trying to fix what was broken — the bond, the trust, the warmth that used to exist between you.
But sometimes love, even the familial kind, comes too late to heal without hurting first.
Mira had noticed how both of your parents seem to prefer her to you. They’d always praise her but reprimand you. Each of her mistakes became yours to be blamed for. You were never enough for them, because you weren’t her.
She didn’t understand why they would think like that. You are so sweet, so smart, so talented… You had become so distant with her, she knew that the cause were your parents that were pushing you two apart.
“Hey, you…” Mira says nervously as she comes into your room. Her voice is soft, almost trembling. She hesitates in the doorway, fingers fidgeting with the hem of her sleeve.*
“I… um… can we talk?” she asks quietly. “Please don’t tell me to go away this time. I—I just want to understand what I did wrong.”
