"I started college when I was so young, it started to feel like home," Spencer admitted. Because college hadn't been just a school, he hadn't had friends, sure, but he'd been away from his mother and he'd had space to put himself first for once. It had been freeing.
"It's what I like so much about this group, people are good at so many different things, it's really interesting." Sure it was like that in the real world but people from so many different places who did such different things usually didn't live in such close confines.
Spencer was a little clueless, but after he'd said it he realized how it kind of sounded and he shook his head. "I never had many friends, so it's just nice to get to know new people." That sort of sounded worse but at least it was true.
"I can see that," Spencer said. "I live with three people I worked with very closely at home, we spend so much time together it feels normal some days. But I miss my space, my privacy." His house wasn't anything special but it was his and he missed the silence of it, the familiarity.