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Then don't do it. [Spoken like doom from the looming giant.]

[Pfft, he's not intimidated. ~~Yes, he is. Very much so.~~] It's kind of too late for that.

[One step closer.] What did you do?

... applied to NYU? Quite awhile back, actually. [Why do you have to be so tall, Matt? Why can't you be normal-sized like the rest of us?] My dad's talking about me moving out here and how he's going to get me an apartment and, like...

I haven't really told Mom or Coco...

... or anyone, except for Dad.

And you, now, I guess. That's all. Nothing illegal, I swear.

...that's it? Jesus, kid, I thought you were about to hold up a liquor store or something stupid.

[He steps back.]

You should tell your sister.

Do I even look like the kind of kid who'd hold up a liquor store? I mean, I get looking like I'm up to no good, but--

[Liam just sighs.] She's harder to deal with than my mom. She's going to be pissed. I've been telling them both I was going to take a year off, figure out what I want to do... but I've kinda always known I wanted go to school in New York.

You never know.

Tell her. Or I will.

Oh, come on! You can't use this against me!

Give me one reason why I can't.

Because if you were in my shoes, I'd assume this was all said in confidence and I wouldn't rat you out to your scary-as-fuck sister.

I like your scary-as-fuck sister and know she wants the best for you.

That's the problem, though. She wants what's best for me. She's spent a majority of her life playing the over-protective sister. I'm supposed to learn from her example and do as she says because she's "been there, done that." I get it. I get that feeling, I really do -- but I also know that I need a chance to strike out on my own every once in awhile.

I'm not trying to hurt her feelings. She's my sister. I love my sister, but she needs to let me cut the goddamn cord.

You people are so confusing sometimes...

Why wouldn't she want you to go to NYU?

You know my sister, dude. How do you think she's going to handle the idea of her baby brother all the way across the country?

She'll adjust.

You're going to make me tell her, aren't you?

Oh yes.

Fine. But for the record: I like you the least of all her friends.

Everyone does.

Hey-- by the way? I saw you on the news last night. Someone posted your whole speech on YouTube. You did good.

...oh. Shit. ...did I look dorky?

No worse than any senator who's ever publicly confessed to having a mistress or whatever.

...any better?

Eh, eye patch was kind of stupid, so no. But I think I get why you were wearing it. It's all in the image.

...stupid, really?