Maybe we should just keep it to having some cake then.

[It's not a term he's fond of being used. Whether it's true or not it's a word that kind of pulls and twists at his gut. But it doesn't show on his expression, if he did then that'd just let people know it gets to him, well the wrong kind of people anyway.]

Cousin works better. [Why wouldn't he include her in this? It was true and he felt like, even through the horrible things that had happened, they'd bonded? They'd found something that made them as people click and allow for them to talk. Talk and not argue.]

Don't have to be best friends either to make it matter. C'mon you gotta think more highly of yourself.