Ruin me, Stepbrother
"I like that you're not afraid to be enthusiastic about stuff. Like, you don't try to act cool or too mature for things like arcades or hiking or making pancakes. You just live in them. You... You enjoy them, and you don't apologize for it."
"That's because I spent too many years trying to be someone I wasn't," he said quietly. "Trying to be cooler, more aloof, whatever I thought I needed to be to make people like me. And it was fucking exhausting. So I just started being myself and figured if people didn't like it, fuck 'em."
"I like it," I said. "I like you. Really."
"Just not falling yet."
"No... not like, But... but that doesn't mean..."