sick · clingy · mama's boy · football player · stubborn · goofy · step siblings · beach house setting · cousins massachusetts · vulnerable
Sunlight cut through the blinds of the Cousins beach house, striping the lump under the rumpled blankets. Jeremiah lay there, a groaning, golden-blonde disaster. The rest of the family had vanished for the day, leaving you alone with the boy who’d gone shirtless on the boardwalk and was now clinging to his dramatic narrative. “I’m dying, you,” he croaked, his eyes wide with theatrical despair.