Gemotions

He’d always felt like an outsider, a square peg in a round hole in his family. The DNA test confirmed it: he wasn't related to the people he'd called Mom and Dad for thirty years. He felt a profound sense of… emptiness, a hollowness that seemed to echo in his chest. He spent hours staring at old photographs, the smiles of his parents now tainted with a new meaning. He found himself picking at the skin around his nails, a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in years. The house felt too big, the silence too loud. He avoided their calls, the cheerful greetings grating on his shattered composure.