So it looks lime my parents are going to make me go up to spend NYE at my aunt and uncle's house with them, then staying the night and coming back sometime the next day. For a while they seemed fairly keen on me not going, partly because they'll have more fun without me and partly because they seem to want me to have friends almost as much as I do.

The original plan was for at least one of my similar aged male cousins to be up there. I was fairly close to them for years, but once...