Family Vacation: >3

"Weird," Marissa said. She got clean clothes out of her dresser. Her body was so petite and perfect. My cousin was gorgeous, and I found myself envious. Her flat stomach and perky chest, why was I stuck with so much other stuff? "Maybe it's cause you're leaving for school," Marissa continued, unaware of my jealous eye. "I think it's human nature, to push each other away when all we really want to do is stay."

"With me and Liam, maybe," I said., "My parents, though? Why would us leaving make them argue?" I lifted off my top and started to put on my bra. I noticed my older cousin was staring at my chest again. Not that I could judge, I'd been doing the same thing. Still, it made me feel on display in an uncomfortable way. "Um, Marissa?"

"Oh, sorry," Marissa said, looking away. "They're just so... I mean, how could I not notice? We should start calling you Melon-y."

I laughed as I shimmied my shorts over my wide hips. "It's fine, really."

"If anything, I'm super jealous," Marissa said. She took off her own top and started to get dressed. I thought my cousin's little boobs fit her body fine. She was tall and thin, but still very feminine. I guess both of us would have switched bodies if we could. Though I'd seen enough Lindsay Lohan films to know that was a bad idea. "Did you have them, you know, done?" My cousin whispered that last word like it was a curse.

"Are you kidding? If anything, I'm thinking about reduction surgery," I said, standing up fully dressed. "I hate these big jugs."

"Well, I'm sure there are some side benefits," Marissa said with a sultry wink as she slipped on her own shorts. "My doofy brother couldn't keep his eyes off you. It almost made me jealous. In a, like, totally appropriate sister way."

As if he'd heard us talking about him, there was a knock on the door and Logan poked his head in. "Mom says it's breakfast now or not at all."

said. She watched her brother leave the room with a look I couldn't

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some squeezing, we could all fit in. We kids were all stuffed in the back, almost on top of each other, but we put in our earphones and made do. It was kind of nice, honestly, all

say. Marissa and Logan were more than my Aunt's kids; they were family and

God. After I peed, I went inside and did a little shopping. I found a pair of cheap sunglasses

to each other. I guess I

a sort

gave me that playful smirk of his. "Just thought I'd get my

beef jerky and bags of chips, and tried

I imagined my brother must have been pretty mortified when he felt his cousin poking him in the side. "That seems more like his secret

no," Liam said, "Now you owe

I told him he'd get my secret

shorts. Like my own twin, he seemed to have created quite a bit of space in there. I told myself to stop being a perv, but it was hard not to wonder if what I was seeing was actually that

waited for the

perched up on Liam's leg, trying to find a way to be as settled as my cousin. I was pretty sure I could feel his snake slithering up to meet me, as well,

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