"I want to understand people. People are so interesting and complicated and every one of them is unique and-- if I could do anything I'd spend my life trying to learn how people work."

"...I bet I can get my fake sister to send me a flash drive of psychology books. If you would want to read them." 

"...please?"

He sounds heartbreakingly grateful.

"I'll write her when we get back to camp," she says, and leans over to kiss Lev on the cheek. 

"Can I put in more book requests?"

"I can't guarantee she'll be able to find free ebooks of them but I can ask her to try." 

He kisses Marlo. "Excuse me, I'm going to go look at Ron's library."

When he's gone, Asher says, "you liiiiiiiike him."

"Yeah. I do." 

"Lev and Raine sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G--"

She mostly kisses him to make him shut up. 

This is terrible incentives. Now he's going to be obnoxious all the time. 

Lev returns with a list of books, mostly about religion, some about gay history or safer sex.

"...these might wind up getting censored but I'll ask her to hide the flash drive." 

"If she just gives me the psychology books that's fine, I just--"

"Flash drives are tiny and there are a bajillion different ways to hide them, I'll ask her for a backup flashlight or something and then write in lemon juice on the back." 

"Thank you."

Gosh, that's the Marlo Facial Expression.

This isn't lost on her. 

Lev is very soft and looks like he needs cuddling. 

Lev agrees that he needs cuddling. 

"If I decided to stay," he says to Marlo, "what would you do?"

"If you stayed with Ron, I think the best plan would be to go back to camp and get my parents' help paying for trade school and an apartment with you. If you stayed at camp I'd stay with you, but — I don't think we're going to be able to hide this." 

"If I decided to stay at camp it would have to be... because I decided to get better."

He freezes up, then very deliberately relaxes himself. 

"Please don't," she says, very quietly. 

"I don't know if I'm going to. But. I might."

He's still very deliberately relaxed.