AITA for not going to my dad's house in an emergency where his 5 year old stepdaughter was left at home on her own?

In a fractured family torn apart by betrayal and forced loyalties, a seventeen-year-old endures the cold weight of court-mandated visits to a father’s house—a place where love has been replaced by resentment and painful reminders of broken promises.

Trapped between two worlds, they bear the silent burden of fractured relationships and impossible expectations, longing for a freedom that the law refuses to grant.

Despite the father’s attempts to mend what was shattered, the wounds run too deep, and the house feels like a prison where the young heart must pretend to belong.

The heavy silence of rejection and unspoken anger suffocates any hope of peace, until finally, the teenager chooses to break free, stepping away from the chaos in search of their own path.