My family is weird, there are 6 great aunts, 4 great uncles, and all of them are married w children, so I have a ton of cousins and 2nd cousins. The problem is almost everyone is 10 years older than me, and 10 years younger than me, besides this one cousin, we will call her Alexis for the story. So alexis and I are the same age, 18, and everyone is either way older than us or way younger than us. This happened over 2 years ago at my great grandmother’s funeral.
It has been about 6 years since I’ve last seen Alexis before this, but, like I said, because we are the same age, i figured we would hang out together again at this funeral like we always have before. This time marked my 3rd time actually seeing Alexis as she lived literally across the country from me.
Since weve both grown up now into young adults, we didnt talk much at all the first 2 days at my grandmas funeral weekend, idk why we didn’t, but we just kept our distance for some unknown reason. It was really awkward hanging out w my younger cousins and older cousins during this time, because the age gap was so large, and I couldnt drink yet, so the evenings got dull very quickly.