Alison
"I’m going to the bathroom," I said, getting up from the table where we were all sitting.
That night, Axel, Adam, Stefan, and I had decided to go to the pier for the party that would be there, mom and dad had asked us to take Alexa with us, and so now we were all there to babysit our little sister.
Alexa wanted to eat a hot dog, so we stopped and sat at a food track table. Adam and Stefan were talking as my brother Axel watched the surface of the water in silence.
It wasn’t the first time I noticed it, but Axel was quieter than usual, sadder, and nostalgic. At first, I didn’t understand why then Mom told me that our cousin Emma had received a scholarship at an academy in Germany and had left a few months ago.
I knew what was going on between Axel and Emma, and seeing him like t
