[ Her jaw clenches, and for a moment she looks like she might not reply.

It's frustrating how everything she knew as constant and fixed are suddenly not, because the kids had stopped reaching out to them the way they had at the very beginning, because it is hard to follow the things that every other kid knows when these are experiences that shs and her brother never had. ]

He just really talks too much. He bothers Renae in class, he tags along like a tail we don't need, he passes notes and hasn't stopped, not even when our teacher told him not to be distracting.