He still catches himself thinking things are the same, sometimes. Sometimes smaller things, like thinking his room is a little further down the hall, which makes him frown a little but it's not a big deal. But sometimes it's bigger things, like thinking he needs to get his team together for extra sessions, which throws him off-balance completely when reality hits him again.

"If I minded, I wouldn't have offered." That was really the long and the short of it. He didn't offer to do things he wouldn't follow through on. "Your parents overloaded you again, huh?"