"Hey!" Lucy protests, letting out a short laugh, though she doesn't bother trying to duck away. It's too comfortingly familiar, being around him like this, and it's not like it really matters if her hair tangles a little. "I know. It's all you really can do, with him."

That she misses him and their mom and Julia isn't something she wants to admit to, though, at least not right now. For a long time, it didn't bother her, but it's been so fucking long now since she's seen them that it's impossible not to. Julia should be getting ready for college, maybe gone already, and God only knows how their parents are.