"It just didn’t feel like the right thing to do," he said lamely, preferring not to think about his own experience of losing his parents at a young age. It wasn’t just the usual disappointment and hurt of goodbyes. There was a lot more to it than that, but he’d never delved much into that whole bundle of confused and powerful emotions. "Why didn’t you ask me in right away?" Kristen said, stretching out a little on the bed. He didn’t understand what she meant.