Locked Out of Warmth

Summary

I ranked first across the entire district on our first statewide college entrance practice exam, but no one in my family was happy.

All because I accidentally laughed once at the dinner table.

My father, who had always favored my cousin, exploded.

"Trevor had a bad practice exam, and you're sitting there laughing?"

"If it weren't for you, Trevor's parents wouldn't have died so young! How dare you use your score to humiliate him?"

Without listening to a word I said, Dad shoved me into the home sauna and locked the door from the outside.