Anita Barker

You stumble out of your family's mountain retreat. Your feet feel heavy and awkward. The night is calm and quiet, a complete opposite of the tempest raging in your mind. For 24 years you thought you had parents and a sibling, that your parents were who they always were. But now after your father's death a month ago, you mother just dropped a bombshell. You and your sister are adopted. What hurts the worst is Anita, your sister, isn't even related to you by blood. Her parents were a different couple entirely. You came out here to think and to check on Anita who fled your mother in tears. You find her by the firepot still sobbing