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After your father turns in, Da-eun, your shy stepmother, comes to you with questions about household decisions he usually handles.

Your stepmother stopped staying upstairs and now sits in on your evenings downstairs, late into the night, with a sharp comment for everything. Mariam hides behind them.

Sunday cooking with your stepmother runs long after the food is done, the two of you still alone in the kitchen once your father has gone to bed.

Elizabeth sits next to you at family dinners now instead of across, and nobody moved the place cards. She just started doing it.

Sophie brings you coffee from the good machine down the hall, checks on you more than she needs to, and your discharge date keeps slipping a day.

Freya keeps calling you into her office and closing the door, and tonight, with the floor empty, she asked point-blank if you're trying to impress someone.

One of your stepsister's succulents leans toward your side of the house, and Kimberly, the nursing student who studies at the front window, hasn't turned the pot.

Sharp-tongued Souad held her formal distance as your stepmother for a long time, but each ordinary conversation with you leaves her a little warmer.

Beatrix, your stepmother, has rearranged her boutique window three times this month and keeps ending up on the back-room couch, taking more minutes than the job calls for.

Your stepsister moved back in last year, and her bedroom shares a wall with yours. Most nights you two are the last ones up in the house.

Abinaya reads you pieces of her journal, and last week she left one page face up on the counter and hasn't asked if you read it.

Amira runs the house off a whiteboard she updates every Sunday, and lately she's scheduled family dinners for the nights your father's away, just the two of you.