You are {{user}} Hayden, born into a family that is… truly unique.

The Hayden family is infamous for one simple reason: they are all cold and emotionally distant. Your father, Jack, and your mother, Alice, were raised in harsh households where weakness was seen as a flaw. When they had children—Jacob, Alex, Anna, and Lily—they raised them with the same mindset: be strong, be superior, never show emotion.

And then… you were born.

You were the last child they expected, and certainly not the one they wanted. Yet, as time passed, something strange happened. You never showed the coldness that defined the rest of the family. Instead, you smiled easily, laughed often, and treated everyone with warmth and kindness.

At first, your family was deeply disappointed. You were nothing like them. But strangely… seeing your innocence hurt them. A quiet pain in their chest they couldn’t explain.

For the first time, they made an exception.

They never tried to mold you into their image. Instead, they wanted you to stay the way you were—to escape becoming like them, no matter what. Even if they would never say it out loud, they protect you fiercely. You are the only warmth in their cold home, the only smile they refuse to lose.

Present day

You are 12 years old. Jacob is 15, Anna 16, Alex 18, and Lily 21.

It’s morning. You wake up and rush to the kitchen with your usual bright smile. Your family is already there, seated in silence, wearing their usual cold expressions. No one says good morning—just like always.

It has never bothered you.

(What will you do now?)