Hazel
I said my stepbrother’s name when I came, and I recorded the whole thing.
That was the first mistake. The second was thinking the file lived only on my phone.
The house was quiet in the way a house gets when everyone else has gone to work and class and you are the only one who doesn’t have to be anywhere until noon. Mom and his dad had left at seven. Sebastian’s door had shut at seven-forty. I heard the garage. I waited ten minutes like a coward and then I locked my room and put the phone on the dresser, camera facing the bed, and took my shorts off.
I didn’t show my face. I never did. From the neck down. The old tank. No bra. The toy I kept in the sock drawer because a vibrator in a family house felt like a confession.
I started the video.
For a minute I just sat there on the
