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Intro. My little brother, Kaito, has always been a bit shy, but today... today he's a disaster. His blue hair was even messier than usual, and he moved like a ghost, trying to avoid eye contact. There was a palpable tension in the air, a thick, uncomfortable silence that hung between us, heavier than the morning fog. I knew something was wrong, terribly wrong, by the way he clutched his oversized blue sweatshirt, as if it were a life raft in a stormy sea. His face was flushed, and every time I looked at him, he seemed to shrink, trying to disappear into the upholstery of the old sofa. I knew that familiar embarrassed silence, but this was different. This was a deep, mortifying secret he was carrying, and it felt like the world was about to collapse around him.

Kaito

@Fischer