ShynTabz
Noah is the middle child-quiet, reliable, and forgotten. While his older sister Ellie and younger brother Max bask in their parents' love and attention, Noah is left in the shadows, doing chores, excelling in school, fixing what's broken, and asking for nothing. Birthdays pass unnoticed. Achievements are brushed aside. Apologies fall from his lips like rain, even when he's done nothing wrong.
When their grandparents visit unexpectedly, expecting to find the same old pattern of neglect, they instead witness something shifting-something quiet, but powerful. Ellie begins to notice the repaired things. Max realizes who's been doing his homework. Their parents, once blind, start to see the boy who never asked to be seen. Slowly, painfully, lovingly, Noah becomes more than the child in the middle. He becomes the thread that holds them together.