The startling news of my having a distant cousin still wore on me. And Max, needless to say, did not assist much in making it much better of a notion for me, save that of letting me know that having a cousin that was nearly twice my junior was not so much from the norm. Then she of course would later add the fact that this was the total opposite of the norm, considering.
Me thinking about such news during so hectic a time as school, made the timing worse. I had hoped that high school drama would take away thoughts from my mind. And while it did help during the five minute breaks in between getting to class and some of the lectures, there were still those boring points in class where there was complete and utter silence and Vivianna and her stories would plague my mind.
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