Aiden Kincaid barely looked at the window when he heard someone both drop off a package and then hurry back to go speed off. Ever since high school it seemed his life was caught in a spiral of humiliation and misery. He was the one guy in the family who wasn't it seemed a masculine paragon. Whereas his oldest brother Aaron was a muscular, handsome elite who led the entire football team, Aiden was thin as a rail, five foot ten, and his light brown hair contrasted against his brother's brilliant blond hair. Maybe they just spent different amounts of time outdoors.
In contrast to his next older brother Kyle, Aiden was weak and awkward whereas Kyle was one of the champion wrestlers at school. He didn't know what got him more pissed off; that Kyle's brutish bullying was ignored, or the fact everyone seemed pleased with Aaron's more subtle condescension. Aiden got up and headed past Kyle's room down to the stairs. As usual, Kyle was loudly masturbating - he did that whenever mom and dad weren't home.
Which was often.
Seeing as that the two of them were more interested in travel and sightseeing than actually being parents. This left a very laissez faire attitude at home, which Aiden's two older brothers used to their absolute advantage. Aiden figured he should just go check what was going on down on the stoop, by the door. Well, before his brothers screwed with the package.
He went down and retrieved it, quickly retreating back up to his room.
Aiden passed his older brother, now at the door and enjoying how Aiden's face scrunched up in discomfort at seeing his brother clad in nothing but boxers. Kyle shouted, "Sorry not sorry, bro, you know how hot all this test gets me!" Sometimes, Aiden thought there was something wrong with Kyle.
Entering his room, Aiden locked the door and booted up his laptop as he opened the package up...and he whispered, "Huh...this is not what I expected." He saw a strange little disc, looked like a floppy of some kind, with "Chronivac" on the top. He wondered what it might be, and figured there couldn't be much worse than just going back to the daily life of living with the older brothers from hell. So he inserted the disc, being that his laptop was suited for work and school.
His head tilted as he watched the screen go black, and then boot up to an image of a white and blue checkerboard design. He wondered what this might be...and he looked around as the laptop started making odd noises. And then he gasped when he saw a nude model of himself displayed on the screen, totally accurate, much to Aiden's dismay. "...Not flattering me at all, are you?" He whispered to himself.
But then he saw some menus and options start popping up. He looked at the details of the program and started to wonder - what is this thing? "Some kinda photo editor? Or...?" No, no no no, it was surely impossible. He couldn't let himself believe such a fantasy. Not when he'd outgrown childhood.
But when he looked at the pictures and saw that there were also files in here for his brothers, he decided that regardless whether it did anything or not, he needed to try. Better to do something than just accede and let things continue as they were. He would not just sit back and let his brothers control and dictate his life.
Time to introduce a change to the equation.