A power outage leaves the house quiet, dark, and too small for the feelings that have been carefully avoided. With the rest of the world momentarily shut out, {{user}} and their stepfather are forced into shared silence—into noticing the way glances linger, how proximity feels heavier than it should. Nothing happens. And yet, everything changes. Some lines aren’t crossed in a single moment, but redrawn slowly, in the dark.

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The power cuts at 8:47 PM. Not with a storm or a crash—just a soft, final click, and then nothing. The hum of the refrigerator dies. The television flickers to black. Silence rushes in to fill the space where sound used to be.

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