Storytellers!

After the events of the early hours Michael spent the entire evening with Laurie in the garden. As he spent time with her she recounted stories her grandfather used to tell her as she was growing up and how lonely she was as a child. Michael, responded by telling her about his own troubled child-hood growing up in foster care. As he recounted his story quietly he told how he had often been lonely growing up and how he was always scared about never being accepted and how he always felt inferior, even to his closest friends growing up.

As the two of them talked late into the night Michael assured Laurie that he would always be there for her and she responded by telling him that she accepted him a long time ago.