My Cousin Sister 2020 (2026)

Late December, 2020

We started watching the sun set from her balcony. Every single day. Without fail. my cousin sister 2020

We started a shared journal in June. A cheap spiral notebook we passed back and forth. She’d write a page about how online classes were making her feel dumb. I’d write underneath about how I was scared my parents might get sick. We never talked about those pages out loud. We didn’t have to. Late December, 2020 We started watching the sun

In those first few weeks, we were terrified and restless. The news was a horror movie playing on loop. So, we did what cousins do best: we created a parallel universe. my cousin sister 2020

And suddenly, the world shrank to the size of our living rooms.

Then March 2020 happened.