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idk if this is what the people mean by family bonding

"His light chuckle carries as I quickly disappear from his sight. Asshole.
But then I stop, noticing. He laughed. Out loud.
It wasn't much, but I heard his deep voice. He's growled or grunted a few times, but he let me hear him laugh. I narrow my eyes, lost in thought.

I wonder if he even realizes. He let me hear him.'

ok yea i wanna know more about mr. mysterious kaleb

"I'll always understand why it happened with Jake. Or why it could've happened with Noah.

Something about this house - these people - lends credence every day to what I always knew I needed. Not sex. Not a guy.

Just a place. Somewhere or someone to feel like home.

And yesterday, Jake Van Der Berg needed that just as much as me. I guess I feel guilty because others won't understand it."

family bonding with step-uncle Jake is just him almost committing an illegal with you and then throwing all of your trauma in your face until you realize he's right and bawl your eyes out in his arms.

is this therapy?

"So if this was just me acting out, then what was it for you?" yes, Tiernan, so glad you have a brain.

the fact that the first pov we get of noah is him having underwhelming sex with a stranger

"There are just as many happy people in Cleveland as there are in Paris," I explain. "And just as many sad ones."
"Yeah, well, I'd rather be sad on a beach."

amen noah