The Quiet Between Them

Two brothers at that rustic kitchen table, etched with shared breakfasts, quiet arguments, and years that passed too quickly.

Now, a silence settles, not of conflict, but of thought.

One traces a crack in the wood, the other gazes out the window, caught between memory and what’s next.

Their lives are tugging in new directions. This is the pause before the pivot. A quiet, heavy moment filled with all they don’t yet say.

That was then. Oct 2012. Rae and Darren. Now. 180 degrees apart, yet achieved their own brand of success <3