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"Oh, I have thehed, and I turned to look at him "What? Was I way off?"

"No, it’s just… that’s the question you ask?" He shook his head, s you could possibly ask I just wasn’t expecting it"

"What were you expecting ure out what part of the night he thought I’d find the ed my question

"They’re like you, aren’t they?" I asked, watching him carefully

"Nobody’s like me," Jack replied flippantly "I’m a one in a million, baby!"

"Jack, you knohat I ot pained, and he was alood time Can’t we just leave it at that?"

"Why did you wantthem had made him more vulnerable and more susceptible to my questions I don’t kno it benefited him Mae had wanted to meet me, I’m sure, but he could’ve put that off

"That is way too coht now," Jack said si so co day, so I thought I had earned the right to whine just a bit

"That’s probably the best question you’ve ever asked me" Jack sounded very far away and rather sad, so I knew the ansouldn’t be anything I’d want to hear anyway For once, I was grateful for his silence After a very pregnant pause, he exhaled deeply "I feel drawn to you"

"That’s why things are coer to hear what sounded like a legitimate answer

"No Well, kinda, but that’s not what I aze to the road "That’s why I wanted you toyour parents?" I crinkled ?"

"No, it’s not like that You knohat I ht?" His eyes flitted back over to ain "Like you feel drawn to , but you feel kind of couess," I said noncommittally He’d actually hit the nail on the head, but I didn’t want to admit to that

"Well, that’s how I feel" He had put himself out there for amore honest with him

"But… what does that have to do with your family?"

"That’s the co?" I asked I knew that if I were sether already Jack was probably growing frustrated withto follow his little half clues

"They like you," he offered helpfully