Silence Protect Me

“My name is Ivy Frank Wright… Yes, I am aware my first name is that of a girl.”

Ivy believes in keeping silent, facing the world with blankness and drinking in the outside noise. He bottles up his anger, silences his happiness and freezes his sadness. He doesn’t think showing emotion could ever help him out. In his train-wreck family, he is content to stay at the back of everything, always the quiet observer to their numerous mistakes.

He feels he is meant to be the plain one in his family. His father is world famous, his mother is a professional fake, his little sister is a child prodigy and his little brother acts like a baby. That, of course, isn’t mentioning his two half-siblings.

Ivy can only sit through so many family pillars crumbling to the ground. A person can only have so much storage space for so many dark secrets, even if they delude themselves into being able to handle it. He has his own problems, his own “shameful” secrets.

But with the weight of his crashing family, can he handle the extra burdens?

“I don’t want to find any more secrets. Unfortunately, my family thrives on them. There are only so many vibrating condoms you can find in your mother’s drawer without cracking a little.”