Status Updates From A World Apart

30 pages in & one of the characters has already released a breath he "didn't know he was holding".
When will that sentence die?

To each other the other appears free. But themselves, they feel trapped. Both desiring what the other has, to be a part of that world instead.

incredibly, i am not liking ANY of the supporting characters. everyone is rude and egotistical. there's a conflation that being informal and close to someone equals being dismissive and cruel and physically rough, which is insane to me. everyone is nasty.

the siblings share a lover.....? hum, anyways.