as long as i can work him being aussie in there i'm down for anything! i was thinking he either got kicked out for dropping out of high school or his parents were in an accident so they're not in his life either way but i think them kicking him out would work better because then he'd understand more about the tension between his cousin and his parents? i want to say maybe they met at a family reunion or something when they were pretty young and it became a yearly thing but they stayed in touch via texts/facetime/etc and that's how they're so close?