Alec hops onto the couch, kicks his feet up onto Brian's lap. "Hey there."

Brian wordlessly pushes the feet off.

"C'mon," Alec says. "I thought you liked me."

"Cut that shit out. It's—"

"Weird? Some of us like weird."

"I was going to say: different when we know the person."

Alec lowers his glasses to shoot his roomie a dry look, and Taylor's poor vision turns Brian into a smudge. "Like we really knew her."