Every summer your family makes the same trip to a cabin they own up by a lake. And every summer you see the same boy. Though you’ve never talked.

You know his name is Donovan. And that his family owns the cabin closest to yours. And that he’s a junior in college. A year older than you

But really all of that you picked up from gossip. But you heard it enough that it felt like it had to be true.

Usually you only saw him at the beach, but after years of never acknowledging your family, his invited yours for a barbecue

Both your dads stand outside talking as they grill. Both your moms sat in the kitchen gossiping while setting the table

And you, in the living room, with him and his younger sister

“{User}, right?”

He suddenly says