12. Table

Liv once asked why they had such a big table if there were only three people in their little family.

"Actually, Olivia, we're more than that." Alo said informatively. "I have an aunt and her daughter, my cousin, with her husband. They have two little boys and live in London. I also have an uncle in Oxford – he's Mumbage's brother – and he has another two kids. Plus, my grandparents are around a lot. That's not even including Shelley and Eric."

It's for nights like that, when they need to have such a big dinner table: to have cousins, aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents to celebrate life in a summer night, eat barbecue and loudly talk about embarrassing family things and create new memories.

Sure, they were a three person family and sure they considered their friends their family, but that… that was new and magical.