I want a thread with Isaac where it’s not about falling in love or anything; it’s about how broken he is and how he cowers away from adults’ anger, how he still has nightmares about his father and small spaces make him twitchy. It should be about how hard it is for him to show emotion, and how he doesn’t want to let people know they are close to him; how he doesn’t actually believe himself to be worth much because who in his life has ever told him that?

I want little brother Isaac finding this person who listens to him, who knows what he’s feeling when he doesn’t say it and can find the words for it. Little brother Isaac, and big sister Summer dragging him out of his shell, insisting on sleeping on his floor when he has a nightmare, who cries when he talks about his family (which he kinds of likes, because it lets him know she understands the frustrating simultaneous good and bad of those memories).