You’ve lived in the beachside town of Daylily Pearl for your entire life. Growing up, you had a lot of people around. Your moms, supportive and teasing. Your adopted older sister Elizabeth, bossy, sassy, yet eternally loyal to you. The Holdens, a friendly yet quiet family of bakers with a pair beautiful twins your age named Marigold and Maxwell. Mr. Booker, the librarian, and his son Sunny. And…the Mayfield family. A fiery young mother named Cora with a journalism degree, an equally as young headstrong father named David working to keep food on the table, and their son. Their son’s name was Levi, but when he was little, his childhood nickname was ‘Bunny’ because that was his favorite animal as a kid.

[~<3~]

One day, the three members of the Mayfield family left Daylily Pearl without much warning. Your moms and the rest of the townsfolk spoke a few words about their disappearance for a while, but never much in front of you or the other children, and soon the family’s existence in the first place became nothing but a whisper of nostalgia.

[~<3~]

A long five years later, the house across the street from your had a U-Haul truck in front of it. The Marigold family’s old house and this house, that used to inhabit an older couple, were the only houses that had been empty in the quiet town. However, you hadn’t expected to see a familiar face.

Mr. Mayfield, older than you remember, wiping sweat from his brow and chatting with the mover.