"Da," Addy flipped the page, but she tried to catch his eye. "Hey, we're okay. Iestyn and me. No one's perfect. People fuck up, teenagers especially. You have to take the good with the bad. In people and in life. Ma and I really struggled with our relationship for a year or so. But we came out of that closer.
"I think sometimes you have this...unrealistic ideal of who we are." It was understandable too. He didn't know them, but had likely thought about who they could be for their whole lives. Of course the real thing couldn't live up to what he would have hoped for them. "Which is okay! It's just not real."