"I just... I think I need to know that this isn't gonna be a part of your life that I'm completely shut out of, you know?" I say, turning my hand over and curling my fingers around his.

"It's not even that I think it would, I know Andrea isn't thinkin' like that, I just... I dunno, it feels kinda important to say." I lift my shoulder in a shrug. "But I want you to do it. I mean, I think you're all kinda fuckin' idiots, but at least we know Spike'd be like, Father of the fuckin' century."