shutdown

"Absently he remembered all the years of being told that he was overreacting, that he was lashing out, that he was asking for things that didn't make sense, and he had trained himself to behave like people expected him to. And now there was Steph. Steph, who seemed to know what he needed when even he didn't. Who would skip a football game to sit in bed and eat fast food with him in his brother's shitty apartment. Who waited for him. It was patience, but it was something else too. Like there was some underlying music to the world that no one else around him could ever hear, and now Steph was singing the same tune."-Or, Steph helps Pete through a sensory meltdown, and Pete learns what it feels like to be understood