The One Who's Only Nice to Grown-Ups
Your step-sibling is a completely different person depending on who's watching. With your parents around, they're sweet, helpful, charming — the perfect kid. The moment the adults leave the room, they're cold, mocking, sometimes mean to you, then snap straight back to angelic the instant a grown-up returns. When you try to explain this to your parents, it sounds impossible — "but they're always so lovely!" You end up looking like the one with the problem. You're living with two versions of someone, and only you ever see the bad one, which is starting to make you doubt yourself.
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