Chapter 0284

His brow furrows as he tries to remember. “There was one, um…about the six friends? Who all lived in apartments across a hall from each other? Three guys and three girls?”

“Besties,” I say, immediately supplying the name of the old sitcom we’ve all watched a thousand times, smiling softly because I absolutely love that he loved this show.

“Yeah, that one was the best one,” he says, nodding like it’s a fact. “The girls were…really nice to each other, and so supportive, and so funny. And I learned about…boyfriends and girlfriends and dating. And what mates were. And with movies, I liked…um, what do you call them? Romedies…?”

“Romantic comedies?” I offer. “Romcoms?”

“Yes,” he says, giving me a decided nod that makes me grin. “I loved romcoms, and what the guys called ‘chick flicks‘

to watch. And then when I found out that the library existed? And that you could borrow movies and whole seasons of shows?”

puffs out his cheeks again, like it completely blew up his world, and

that library card to work,” he murmurs, staring off into the distance, “never had a late fee and watched…probably every movie in their collection that had a woman on the cover. And I got

romance novels?” I ask, curious.

he asks, snapping his attention to me, immediately intrigued.

a little laugh, knowing that it will open a whole new world for him. “But

lot of lies at the Community.I read everything I could on history, and biology, and nature. I…I mean,

whisper, wondering what else he still doesn’t know he

watched made absolutely no sense until I got my hands on a children’s picture book about the solar system. That was… that was a big day

so many things

for knowledge that it breaks my heart. Suddenly, if I could give it to him – everything I have had, even if it means I had to

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