[Lovebite]

"My friend! How have you been?"Irwin quickly salvaged the sudden encounter in the middle of the village marketplace, he hugged him tightly for a few moments then pulled away. He looked up at him with tired brown eyes, not replying to the man's other questions, though he gestured him to follow him towards his father's fishery. They had to past by the stand outside though where his mother was sitting at the ice boxes,"Mother, this is my old friend from school."He said, hoping that Max went along with it.
He had went to school as a young boy because his father had sent him away, he had come back when money was tight to help with the business. His cousins glanced back from carrying crates of fish to the back of the building, a few of them smirked and he tried to ignore them. "He's going to be staying with me now."