"Well... look at it this way... at least you know they care about ya... right?" It was tough love if Noah had ever heard about it -- but at least it was something. Noah did not have much by way of family of his own; his relationship with his father was and had always been strained at best and his older brother lived on the other side of the country and neither knew about Kathlynn or his recent lack thereof, but that was not unusual.
"People just have a fu-- " He stopped, realizing it was likely not a good idea to refer to her family as "fucked up," however indirectly, " --nny way of showing it sometimes."