I’m Dylan—sixteen, firstborn, and treated like the extra piece no one ordered. My parents, Johnathan and Emily, were never shy about blaming me for the life they “missed.” When my younger brother Marc—planned, adored, “delicate,” and living with type 1 diabetes—learned he could manufacture attention by lying about me, I became the family scapegoat. The breaking point comes after Christmas when Marc destroys his own Nintendo Switch, blames me, and my mother rips mine from my hands. I snap. I shove Marc against the wall and demand he tell the truth—he finally does—and I run to the only person who’s ever made room for me: my Uncle Nate.
What follows is fallout and reckonings—police at the door, a family tribunal, years of swallowed hurt spoken aloud, boundaries set in stone, therapy, and the slow, steady building of a life where peace isn’t something I have to beg for. This is a story about the attention people lie for—and the quiet, steady love that doesn’t need lies to exist.
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