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“And it feels weird?”

“It’s weird hanging out with people I grew up around now that I’ round constantly re home?”

In his letters he’d always kept our conversations to the present The here and now, and never ventured too far into the past I was okay with that I didn’t want to be the sairl with the even sadder story

“I don’t”

“You don’t? As in you don’t go home?”

“No, I don’t have a hoo back to” He tilted his head and corner of his host of a half-smile

“No family?”

A flicker of sadness rushed across his face “I have a sister, but… that’s corandparents owned, that’s pretty cool”

Here I was bitching about my shitty family when Berk barely had any family at all

He hadn’t s to hts I was too scared to live out in the real world, and things likeinto my past It seemed he’d felt the sa toointo his past either As ed over tis from one another “I didn’t know about your family”

“How could you?” He lifted one shoulder “And I didn’t say that to aze danced around the roo and ignoring my own

“I don’t” My sht in the corner of his eye and the tension leaked out of his body second by second

“Are we doing this thing?” He rubbed his hands together “Going out there and showing your sister’s friends how the FU crew does it?” His tough guy voice h

“Yeah, let’s do this” I stared at the gar like I’d somehow be able to transfor sleeved t-shirt with my mind

“Did you want to change first?” He lifted his chin toward the open bathroom door