If I had a nickel for every time I felt protective over a snarky, emotionally guarded Eastern European teenage boy with a dead mom, an asshole dad that later dies resulting in very bittersweet and complicated feelings, and an affinity for deflowering a shy nerdy boy with freckles, parading around with a girl named Svetlana in front of him/sending mixed signals, and then slowly (painfully slowly) falling in love with him after years of a messy on again-off again relationship that included a ton of sex, sneaking around, a dad walking in on them, his boyfriend acquiring a beard after trying to date and then becoming best friends with a woman, and a slow transition from calling each other by their last names to their first names...
I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
