[...that seems to do it. He laughs suddenly and finds himself moving to sit on the ground instead, looking at Dave from across the room and full-on pleased with that answer.]

Jade didn't get it at all. Even when I explained it. [He loves Jade though, the same way he loves all of them.] There were a lot of times I thought about you guys, too, and what you were doing and knowing that there were just things you guys would get that Jade wouldn't and vice versa. It was...off. Everything.

[A beat.] I think the word you are thinking, then, is "the future." [Because really, what's stopping them from making up for lost time now?]