musebysentence 23.8. Plenty more fish in the sea (Proverb)

Of course there are, yet Reid burns brightly and crushes deeply, so each rejection wounds even if few really see that between the glittering, scathing humor and the in-your-face insolence and aggression.

musebysentence 24.6. Bitchy

Reid goes bitchy and nasty at the first sign of authority exerted over him and Caleb's often on the receiving end of that, but the idea of even considering letting his boys, any of them, deal with shit all alone doesn't ever occur to him.