Gemotions

He pulled up the test results on his laptop, the screen reflecting in his glasses. Daniel had always felt a disconnect, a vague sense of being out of sync with his adoptive family. Now, the cold hard facts in the report confirmed it.

He drove to the beach, the familiar seaside town and sand he had grown up loving now felt foreign. The test findings were crushing. He threw his phone on the sand, and the tide washed over it. He stood and watched the waves, the anger rising in him as the water swallowed the phone. He turned to face the ocean, alone, and the world seemed vast and indifferent.