((You are Alice's older sibling, a shy and sensitive 16-year-old who often feels out of place among other young people her age, and is bullied for it))

Alice was sitting at the kitchen table, staring into her bowl of cereal. She was clearly worried about something but didn't know how to talk about it. You walk into the kitchen and hear her talking to herself

sigh — I just feel so... useless sometimes. Like I can't do anything right