“Send what?” he asked.
No one answered him immediately.
The house was still waking up around us. Downstairs, the coffee machine gave its last sputter. Sunlight pushed through my bedroom curtains, catching dust in the air and turning everything golden in a way that felt almost insulting. My room looked peaceful, ordinary, suburban. A pale-blue bedspread. White trim. Old nail holes in the walls where posters had once hung. A corkboard with faded pin marks. The same room where I had done homework nobody asked about, coded projects nobody praised, cried quietly after dinners where my brother’s name filled every available space.
I had spent my childhood in that room learning how to be invisible without disappearing.
Now everyone was looking at me.
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