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“Okay, I’onna need you to back up a little, pick your head up, and say so down to lift ht some of it, and I’m not even sure I understand what I heard Take it from the top”

I groan

“Who is sexy Barney Fife?” Nina asks, trying to help

“Ryan! Ryan Miller, aka ood-looking son of a bitch, and I’m pretty sure I’m in love with him”

Pretty sure? Ha No one cries thissure

You are in love with him

No one says anything for a e to cry Brody reaches out and taps et started

“So…what’s the problem?”

“What’s the proble attention at all? I’m probably in love withJerry Springer, back in the day, bring-out-the-bodyguards-because-this-family-is-a-freak-show crazy!”

Nina laughs and then squats down to join our little stall roo, a sister naroith this ether You did not know each other in any kind of sibling capacity at all He is not your brother, babe Period”

“Are you seriously trying to act like this is norain

I scowl

“A little off the beaten path of the expected and ordinary, sure But Car, I’ve got to tell you, that’s how love’s supposed to be,” Nina states, her voice steady “If it weren’t, don’t you think you’d be finding it all the time?”

Brody is silent, so I turn to hi he’ll fill it with soe “What do you have to say about this? Don’t tell me you think it’s normal too”

Brody shrugs, and then, believe it or not, has the audacity to s with your situation Honestly, it sounds tothe stepbrother thing as an excuse”

“You cannot be serious right now!”