Emily was thoroughly enjoying herself as Justin's cousins told stories connected to the pictures in the photo album. It was fun hearing about his exploits when he was younger and seeing his adorable flustered face when he was embarrassed.
She noticed an odd pattern in the photos though. Almost all of the pictures included his family members. There were very few of him alone and the only ones she saw with other people were of his robotics club team at competitions in elementary and middle school.
As they continued flipping through the photo album and caught up to the present the pattern was even more pronounced. The only pictures that didn't include his cousins were a couple from Academic Decathlon.
She had long suspected that Justin didn't really have friends or do anything outside his computer but this basically proved it. There weren't many pictures of him on his own because the only time he got off his computer was to spend time with his cousins.
Greetings my darling readers! Please don't hate me but my stockpile of chapters has rapidly depleted (I've done almost nothing but write for weeks, losing tons of sleep when inspiration struck) because my schedule got busier so I'll only be able to post one chapter a day for a while instead of two. I'll still do a mass release of five chapters as promised if this novel gets 250 power stones this week! Many thanks for sticking with me :)