**First time posting here, so be gentle. This story happened a couple weeks ago, while I was on vacation with one of my best friends and her family. It’s also a long story because I believe a proper backstory and detail sets the mood right.**
I had known Morgan for a few years, I had actually dated one of her best friends in college and got to know her from there. After breaking up with her friend, she and I became close and I eventually got to know her family as well. One of those family members was Rachel, Morgan’s cousin. While Morgan was more of a homebody and a reader, Rachel was more active and more my type, but we never talked much aside from a few conversations here or there whenever I was around the family. When Morgan invited me to join her family on a vacation to North Carolina, I agreed mainly because I hadn’t been on a real vacation in almost a decade (I’m 26). I knew it would be her immediate family, plus a couple aunts and uncles, and Rachel.