"Yeah, but being mean and sarcastic doesn't exactly win friends, Tom." Hope shrugged and her eyes dropped to her drink, raising it to her lips to take a sip, to let the chocolate do it's work. "And it's not like I have family here that have to like me. I mean if I wanted to get technical I could probably say Thor was a very distant cousin. But he's never met me and I've never met him, and it would just be weird for me to say 'Hey cuz..'" Sure she had Nike, but it wasn't the same. And he was always off doing and helping. "And it wouldn't exactly be like he would have to like me, because of some distant thing." She missed her brothers and sister. And Dads, and Moms. "I mean my sarcasm won one person over, but he's gone now. So.." Why was she telling him all this?