Two boys chased each other on power-wheels around the backyard of a newly remodeled house in Mississippi across the river from New Orleans, while two girls had a picnic with their tea set. A fifteen year old sat in a lawn chair getting a tan. Her white shorts and bathing suit top covered enough to make her dad happy. Another teenage girl sat beside her.

"How old are your siblings, Harmony?" The girl spoke.

Harmony almost fell out of her lawn chair. She sat herself back up right. "Holy crap! Layla, you almost gave me a heart attack!"

"Sorry! I told you I'd be over at eleven!" Layla laughed.

Harmony laughed along with her. "Like I keep track of time on Saturday? Anyway, Ella and Eliza..." She pointed to the two girls on the blanket, "...are eight. They're twins. My mom swore she would never have any more. Then, a year later she got pregnant with Arlo, the older boy on the blue power-wheel. The other one isn't my sibling. He is my cousin. My aunt Cadence's son."

"You have an aunt?" Layla was surprised. Harmony never talked about her family beyond her mom and dad. Until Harmony finally invited her over after being friends for eight years, she never even knew that she had siblings.

"Yep. She and my mother have the same father. She lived with her mother." Harmony explained, leaning her head back.

"I thought you said that your grandfather remarried. I am so confused." Layla took Harmony's sunglasses off. "Explain please." She whined.

"Okay, my grandfather, when my mom was young, had a child with a woman named Elena Gilbert. Elena went back to Mystic Falls and my grandfather married my grandmother. My grandmother died and my grandfather married Elena two years ago. Make sense now?"

"Ye-...No."

"Forget it." Harmony laughed to herself and continued her tan. Her family was too complicated to explain.