"Okay. ...unsettling, mind, but okay. I can do that." It sounded like a horror trip but, frankly, so had a lot of the things he had done and seen the last several hours. Hartley finally decided to be brave and so he put an arm around Axel, half expecting to be pushed away. "I don't regret it, you know. Making out in my room. I mean, sure, this sucks, but that was still the best thing to ever happen to me in that house. You were, I guess. So that's why I thanked you and I guess I still mean that. Thank you."