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‘

women’s lives, I wanted to watch. And then when I found out that

it completely blew

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

romance novels?” I

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

at him and shake my head. “I’ll tell you about those later,” I say with a little laugh, knowing that it will open a whole

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

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

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 was… that was a big day for me.”

up, and stroke his cheek. There must be so many gaps in his knowledge, so many things about the world which

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 – I’d do it.

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