You would've been introduced because your parents got married, right? Which sounds really complicated, on top of being your age already being really complicated.

[ Orpheus never had to deal with the epic highs and lows of high school sports or going viral for bad things happening to him (not yet, not technically) or anything, but there's a universality to the difficulties of being fifteen and having to figure yourself out, especially when you have minimal adult supervision. ]

Yelling isn't really a good way to show someone you care, even when they've done something, um. Bad. And I'm sorry if any of us do that today. But you're right. Sometimes that's just how all the fear and worry comes out, even if it's not the best.