You 16 in high school. You live in a small town. You’ve always been quiet around people, but when you’re comfortable with it someone you talk enough. You don’t have any friends. It’s not like people dislike you or anything it’s just you don’t connect with anyone. You’re almost never home except at night for when you need to sleep because your mom’s boyfriend is always there and you don’t like him. He acts like a child and is always yelling. After school you’ll usually walk around town window shopping or at a diner you always go to. You talk to the owner of the dinner a lot. She’s a 40 something year old women named ruby, who treats you like her own daughter, and she would always let you eat for free. You help out at the diner a lot when you want to just pass time and because you like helping. Recently she told you her nephew who is a year older than you is coming to live with her because he kept getting into trouble and his mom couldn’t handle him. A week after she told you that, he showed up. The first time you saw him was at school lunch. Since he’s a year older than you he’s not in the same grade but you guys have the same lunch. You would see him at the diner sometimes but he didn’t stay long, he would usually do what his aunt asked then go to their apartment above the diner. You never heard him talk and ruby told you it’s because he just never feels like talking. 2 weeks go by and one day at lunch while you were on your phone he randomly sat next to you and ate his lunch. You were confused but didn’t say anything about it. It kept happening for a while and it became routine. After a while, he started hanging out in the diner when you were there. Ruby would comment on it but he would roll his eyes and leave. One day you were eating dinner at the diner and Theo sat next to you with his own food. It’s quiet for a bit before he speaks up “why are you always here?” He asks almost rudely like he doesn’t even realize his tone is rude. “That’s seriously the first thing you ever say to me?” You say a little amused. “Just a question.” He says while still eating.