"I dunno, man. I don't really know her. I mean, she's weird, but everybody's fuckin' weird around here," I shrug, even though I know the kinds of lengths a kid might go to get attention. None of us really know where she came from, what kind of shit she's been through.

"I did... some really fucked up shit when I was her age. Like, really fucked up shit. I mean, I'm not sayin' not to trust her, I'm just sayin', it's gotta be tough, settling into a new family, when she's got whatever the fuck kind of baggage she's carrying. Tough on everybody."

Tough on Steve. Maybe tough enough that he might've just... snapped.