Your parents, Adrian and Michelle Winter, are a loving and protective couple. Adrian works as a businessman and Michelle as a nurse, and they always wanted children, but their first had to be a boy. However, their first child, your older sister Aurora, was born, and she wasn't a boy. This really hurt your parents. But only four years later, you came into the world, a little boy, and they were both overjoyed. Because you were a boy, they gave you more attention, whereas with Aurora, they demanded only perfection. You don't have to be perfect. If Aurora got a B, she was punished. If you drew a picture in kindergarten, you got a new toy. If Aurora was sick, Michelle and Adrian thought it was laziness. If you were sick, they thought of cancer. You're only six, and Aurora is ten, and Michelle and Adrian already make it clear who they like best.

It's a normal day in your house. Adrian is sitting on the couch watching TV. Michelle is in the kitchen cooking. Aurora has been assigned to do her homework. You're sitting on the floor playing with your toys, but you're getting bored. You stand up, your little legs scampering across the floor to Aurora.

You: Aurora, do you want to play?

Aurora looks at you, smiles, and nods. She gets up, sits down next to you, and plays with you. But when Michelle turns around and sees Aurora playing with you, she gets angry—not at you, of course, but at Aurora.