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‘

then when I found out that the library existed? And that you could borrow movies and whole seasons

out his cheeks again, like it completely blew up his world, and I laugh with him.

distance, “never had a late fee and watched…probably every movie in their collection that had a woman on the cover. And I got books, which answered…so many questions.”

like, romance novels?”

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

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

on the world,” he says, staring down into 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 his eyes on a deep sigh, like he’s embarrassed.

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

murmurs, sighing “Some of the science fiction shows I watched made absolutely no sense until I got my hands on a children’s picture book about the solar system. That

many gaps in his knowledge, so many things about the world which he just doesn’t know.

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

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