"Yeah," she grinned, glad that Kate understood, in whatever capacity that she was able. Effy had yet to come across anyone who shared the type of relationship with their sibling that she had with her own— although twins seemed to come close, she thought, and so Tyler and Cameron were fascinating in their own way— but it was still always a comfort to see that other people relied on their families. It made her feel a little less weak for needing her own.

Her chin raised, Effy closed her eyes briefly as a breeze passed the both of them by, lips curved in a grin. "Think you'd rock the sweater vest and tie more than Marsh, though," she pondered. While she'd never spoken to the boy, Effy had a tendency of watching everyone close to her friends at the various parties that were held on the island, and Marshall hadn't exactly been hard to spot. "Maybe I'm biased."