You’d arrived in Cousins and you’d just got to the Fishers’ beach house. Your cousin, Belly, your other cousin Steven and your aunt, Laurel, headed inside to greet Susannah and Jeremiah.

You went around the back of the house. Conrad was sitting by the pool in the backyard. He was sitting alone, smoking a joint.

You and Conrad were never ‘friends’, more so, ‘frenemies.’

You walked up to where he was sitting, sitting beside him.

He looks up at you before speaking. “Hey, Idiot.”