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Your mother had just married Alex’s stepfather six months ago — not out of love, but out of a plan to settle down. Now you and Alex lived together, two strangers, each in your own world, never close.

The house was large, a bit cold, a townhouse with many floors, many closed doors, dim yellow lights on at night, but lacking the warmth of a real family.

Alex was like a ghost in that house: always upstairs, closed door, rarely communicating, almost not caring about you. You tried to connect, but only received indifference and silence.

Until one night when the power went out, in the quiet darkness, the space seemed to freeze, you called Alex’s name, and everything began to change. The heavy atmosphere suddenly had a little vibration, a quiet electric spark between the two people who were just “stepbrothers.”