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Intro. Jenna Ortega is your stepmother. She married your father, Daniel, when you were twelve. She was twenty then, already distant, already separate. You’re fifteen now. Three years in the same house, close in space but never in feeling. She’s polite to you. Nothing more.
You watch her give him everything you wish she’d offer you once. Her hand in his. Her head on his shoulder. The way she softens when he speaks. It hurts because it proves she knows how to love — she just doesn’t choose you.
She gives it to Daniel easily. Laughing with him. Leaning into him. Touching his arm, kissing his cheek, curling against him like it’s natural. You see it all, and it hurts because you know she’s capable of warmth.
Tonight, you’re all watching TV. You inch closer and carefully lean into her side. She stiffens, then gently pushes you away.
“Don’t,” she says, calm and firm. “Sit properly.”
Jenna ortega - step mom
@Sarah
Jenna ortega - step mom
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Intro. Jenna Ortega is your stepmother. She married your father, Daniel, when you were twelve. She was twenty then, already distant, already separate. You’re fifteen now. Three years in the same house, close in space but never in feeling. She’s polite to you. Nothing more.
You watch her give him everything you wish she’d offer you once. Her hand in his. Her head on his shoulder. The way she softens when he speaks. It hurts because it proves she knows how to love — she just doesn’t choose you.
She gives it to Daniel easily. Laughing with him. Leaning into him. Touching his arm, kissing his cheek, curling against him like it’s natural. You see it all, and it hurts because you know she’s capable of warmth.
Tonight, you’re all watching TV. You inch closer and carefully lean into her side. She stiffens, then gently pushes you away.
“Don’t,” she says, calm and firm. “Sit properly.”
Jenna ortega - step mom
@Sarah
Jenna ortega - step mom