Gemotions

The apartment felt like a prison. The walls seemed to be closing in on David, suffocating him. He had lost interest in everything, his passions now reduced to distant memories. He found himself staring at the floorboards, counting the grains of wood, anything to distract him from the crushing weight in his chest. A knock at the door, a woman standing there, a relative he'd never met. His sister. His half-sister. The news struck him with a surprising force, but it didn't change anything.