"Yeah," Chuck says, letting out a breath that isn't quite a laugh. "I guess that makes two of us." It's not really like anything he's known before, after all, and therefore it's more than a little difficult for him to figure out what the hell he's supposed to do with that. Relationships and romance, neither of those are things for which he's cut out. For Laura, though, it's worth it to try. It has been since the day he found her on the beach, when he inserted himself into a stranger's business despite his better judgment.

"But I think that works out alright."