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Lark threw his ar, and I asked, “Are you okay?”

He sat down on the edge of the coffee table and dried his eyes while he clutched the stuffed anih, you know? Kel misses his dumb boyfriend, and I miss my family I try not to, but it’s just hard sometimes”

Kel held his arrabbed his friend in a hug “Lark got disowned by his parents when he came out,” Kel explained, as he rubbed Lark’s back “It happened when he was fifteen”

Lark sniffed and rando, and it’s just been me ever since I do okay s”

“But you have us now—your whole family here at the pink Victorian,” I said, as I pulled ray hoodie “You also have family you haven’t even met yet”

I sent my brother a text about my depressed roommates as Lark turned his dark, soulful eyes to me and asked, “What do you mean?”

“Just what I said Hang on, I’ic”

Seth soon texted back with the following ether a conference call Give h He always did

A video call popped up a few seconds later When I answered, Seth was on the screen A little old lady narandson Josh, and Josh’s fiancé Darere clustered together in a secondSeth’s friends were in a kitchen, and Nana earing a Santa hat

I smiled at the screen and said, “Hi everyone I have two people I want you tonext to him is Kel” I flipped the camera around, and my roommates waved

As soon as I explained about Lark’s estranged family, Nana leapt to her feet and disappeared fro, and then she exclaimed, “That’s not what faround with a tray of cookies and yelled, “Don’t just sit there, Joshie and Dare’ve got a holiday 9-1-1! Help rab some Christmas cheer!”

Josh and Darwin both got up too, and Nana reappeared and stuck her face in the phone as she yelled, “Sit tight, boys, the Christmas cavalry is on the way!”