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‘

I found out that the library existed? And that you could borrow movies

his cheeks again, like it completely blew up

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

romance novels?” I

snapping his

head. “I’ll tell you about those later,” I say with a little laugh, knowing that it will open a whole new world for him. “But tell me what you mean – what books did

my eyes. “I…well, that’s how I figured out that I’d been told a lot of lies at the Community.I read everything I could on history, and biology, and nature. I…I mean, I didn’t even know the earth was round,” he murmurs, closing

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

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 gaps in his knowledge, so many things about the world which he just doesn’t know. And, I mean, it’s

benefit of a world–class education. And Jacks is so clever, and so hungry 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 give it up –

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