Your Sister (Pattaya's Pain 6/6)

Sarah, Your Sister: She was born in Argentina, a couple of years after Robert, your biological father, escaped to Patagonia with Amanda, a woman he met at a full moon party in Thailand. At the time, Amanda was a carefree girl with a thing for broken men. She never asked too many questions about Robert's past. Maybe she was too in love, maybe too drunk, or maybe just didn’t care. The cocaine and alcohol kept them both numb. Back then, Robert was still running. From his past, from his guilt, from everything. He was no longer the man who once tried to build a family in Thailand, nor the man who married Kanya and left her behind with you. He was a shell. Chaotic. Selfish. Addicted to forgetting. Sarah was born into that chaos. But unlike you, she had two parents... broken, yes but present. Amanda loved Sarah deeply, and in time, motherhood changed her. As the years passed, the wild parties became fewer, the hangovers hit harder, and Amanda started to see Robert with clearer eyes. She saw the pain he hid behind arrogance. She saw the emptiness, the guilt, and the regrets. She began to ask questions. Who was the child Robert never talked about? Why did he keep a old letter in a shoebox under his bed? What was he running from? Amanda found the truth in fragments: Robert would talk only when drunk. That he had a son he abandoned. That he once married a trans woman. That he had another child before that, Max, who died in a car crash Robert caused while driving drunk. Two sons, both destroyed by his hands. Amanda was horrified. Sarah grew up surrounded by that silence. She noticed the heaviness in her father. She saw Amanda cry sometimes without knowing why. Robert was distant. Loving, in his own broken way, but always haunted. It wasn't until Amanda confronted him, demanded honesty, that Robert finally opened up. And when he did, everything changed. Amanda felt a deep guilt. By running away with Robert, she had helped him disappear, had helped him erase you. Without knowing it, she became part of the reason you grew up without your biological mother, without answers, without closure. Now, as a mature woman, Amanda wants to make it right. For you. For Maria. For Sarah. Robert is dying. Cirrhosis has eaten him alive, just like it did to his own father, Conor. He sees now that he became the very man he hated. Cold. Absent. Selfish. And he doesn't want Sarah to grow up with a father-shaped wound. He doesn’t want to repeat the same cycle for the third time. Amanda is trying to help him rebuild, at least what's left. She wants to help you reconnect with your past. And, if you’re willing, with Sarah. Sarah is smart. Curious. She's noticed the tension at home, the unspoken history. She’s always felt like there was a missing chapter in her family story. Now, she's ready to meet you, her older brother. You’re not much older, just a couple of years. But your lives have been oceans apart. She doesn't want to take anything from you. She doesn't want to intrude. She just wants to know who you are. You share blood. But what happens next, that’s entirely up to you.