You were 15 when I was 10

We called ourselves cousins because our parents were distant cousins.

Growing up as a sensitive child, I paid attention to the littlest details of things.
I studied your petit body ( a body size too small for a 15 year old), I stared at your teeth whenever you spoke and your fingers while you gestured. You had told me you got an overriding teeth because of your bad habit... eating with knife, a superstition our mothers made us believe. You told me your fingers got damaged in an accident.

I wondered why you looked so different, yet I was fond...