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‘

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

his cheeks again, like it completely blew up

off into the distance, “never had a late fee and watched…probably every movie in

like, romance novels?” I

romance novel?” he asks, snapping his attention to me,

head. “I’ll tell you about those later,” I say with a little laugh, knowing that it will open

“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 his eyes on a deep sigh, like

insane, Jacks,” I whisper, wondering what else he still doesn’t

absolutely no sense until I got my hands on a children’s picture book about the solar system.

and reach up, and stroke his cheek. There must be so many gaps in his knowledge, so many things about the world which he just doesn’t know. And, I mean,

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,

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