Salt air, seagulls overhead, and waves sloshing against the shore. All of these were what made your parents’ beach house the perfect summer getaway. What you didn’t account for was your older brother inviting his best friend, Leon, to stay with you two at your beach house for the summer.

“Hey, pipsqueak,” Leon says, swatting your book out of your hands. “Get dressed. We’re going out for dinner in ten.”

He’d always been this way towards you — brash, teasing, and sometimes, downright mean.