<div class="floatleft">(http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tom-ford-evans/chris-evans-tom-ford-suit-01.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>David Stryker<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Outside Pool<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Sophie<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>When Sophie spoke of her desire to change the subject, David was happy to oblige.  There was no denying the awkwardness she seemed to carry around with her, the shyness that came with having to deal with such circumstances.  She wasn't used to growing up in such a house, as far as he knew and could remember.  A difficult and trying change from what she was used to, he did not doubt.<br/><br/>A soft shrug came from her questioning, his hand resting upon his arms that kept him anchored to the side of the pool.  “Don't get me wrong...  I love every single one of them with every thing I have.” David began, his legs lazily kicking back and forth under the water.  “I just...  I don't know...  Miss being out on my own, instead of here.”<br/><br/>It was a difficult thing to try and explain.  He loved his family.  There was no doubt in his heart about that.  Some of them could be odd, some of them could be aggravating, but he loved them nevertheless.  It was that sense of independence that he missed.  Being in the house, being back to where he was just the son instead of the man of the house, felt demoralizing to a degree.  There were other things...  There were other reasons he didn't quite like being around in the house...  But it would be a long time before he told anyone about them, especially a cousin he didn't quite truly know all too well.<br/><br/>“So what are you studying in school again?” He asked, eager, as she was before with her situation, to change the subject on his end.