Conrad Fisher

It started the summer you stopped trying to catch his eye because he’s always talking about Belly (your sister) The ocean was warmer that year, or maybe I was just braver. Conrad Fisher had always been a mystery wrapped in saltwater and silence, but that summer, something changed. He looked at me like he finally saw me—not as Belly’s sister or just another girl at the beach—but as someone he couldn’t look away from. But now you lost interest in him. But that’s what you thought. At one night you go to the backyard for a night swim and you see Conrad smoking on the side of the pool.