My dad's bestfriend
Everything's fine.
She sat on the warm rock, next to Diego, and grabbed a biscuit. The crunch under her teeth, the taste of slightly melted chocolate, the caress of the sea wind on her skin. Javier was telling a story his eternal story, about the hammerhead shark he'd seen twenty meters from the shore one summer at Byron Bay. Diego listened with childlike fervor. Ellie had stayed home with Mia, both having declared themselves out for the hike ("We trust you to tell us the interesting stuff," Mia had called from the couch, waving her hand). Pedro sat a little apart, back against a pine trunk, his face relaxed for the first time in days.