The Barbecue Party

“I told you, you’re all right now, Elisia.”

My younger brother’s endlessly gentle, tender voice seeped through the crack in the door.

And Elisia nodded, tears streaming down her face at his words of comfort.

With that unmistakable, thick, sweet pink atmosphere blooming between the two of them, impossible to deny no matter how you looked at it...

‘Aha.’

Karl smiled.

“......”

Karl quietly released the hospital room doorknob he’d been holding, careful not to make a sound.

Sliiide.

Willing to avoid becoming a nuisance, Karl turned his wheelchair around...