Just a couple things

[jaeliyah]

1. I think a lot of people meet me and think that I'm interesting and then lose interest when they find out that, really, I'm just weird and quite boring.

2.

Comments

[horatio09]

Why aren't we friends yet? Okay, fixed on my end...**waits expectantly**

Sanna's already summarized my suggestion, so no need to go into much more. I think that an off-the-wall, odd solution to this might be to take this as incentive to get close (well, closer) to your family. As Sanna said, find out what's going on. See if the guy is still the jerk you remember. Let the family get to know you, so they know you're not a freak and should be taken seriously if you do need to say something. And even if nothing ever comes of this situation (and please, God, may that be so!), you'll have gained something from it in the form of closer relationships which people who just might be pretty cool (they are, after all, related to you, which has a certain amount of inherent awesome).

Unrelated note: I find the combination of "weird" and "quite boring" in note 1 to be amusing and somewhat oxymoronic.

Another unrelated note: I'm reading Runaways. I sat down and read the entire first trade hardback when I went to go pick them up, and didn't get home until midnight.

[jaeliyah]

I don't send friend requests. I'm always convinced people will say no because if they wanted to be my friend, they'd send me a friend request. But we're friends now!

I'm kind of afraid of my family. I don't know that they really like me. That side of my family has always considered me stuck up. And even though they're my closest extended family geographically, they still live three hours away, so it's hard for me to try to inconspicuously keep an eye on my cousin, and I know I couldn't do it regularly. And I feel like time is an issue.

I think most things by virtue of being uncommon are not boring, but I think it is possible to be weird and uninteresting. Like in my crafting, I'm having a long-running problem with adhesives that all do something wrong differently, which strikes me as both weird and boring.

Also, Runaways = awesome!

[horatio09]

That's why I think you should go ahead and take this opportunity to get to know them. All of them. Just to get to know them. Yes, the reason you're doing this is to get close to your cousin to make sure she's alright, but the goal is just to get closer to your family. However that happens. Who knows? This might lead to keeping your cousin safe and a bunch of other good stuff besides. **shrugs**