“Yeah…I know.” He was about to launch into an anecdote about the first time they got stomachs, culminating in talking about the time his buddy got so hungry he passed out because he didn’t understand what that aching feeling in his gut was, when he paused, rewound the conversation in his head, thought about it for a second-

“Maybe you just saw-“ No, actually, he shouldn’t assume other people shared his experiences or were of the same nature as him. (All of this was so weird.) “I don’t know. It wouldn’t be the first time something like this happened to me, so I can’t say it’s really…worrying to me. I guess it’s the first time I ended up with parents - that’s new.”