"I feel like you have an alternative reason for coming here. I mean, this isn't really your scene, " Elena says, looking up at me.

"Sometimes Elena, people do things that may suprise you."

"Not you, though, Max, you never surprise me. You're very much set in your ways. So tell me, are you here to see Tarla? or are you to see someone else entirely?"

"You know someone else might take offence with what you're insinuating. Tarla is my sister, and I love her."

"Yes, and I'm your baby cousin, I know you." She gives me a side hug.

"You're forgetting, Max, I was there three years ago." I...