Chapter 85: This Isn't Fair

Bree could see that Jasper was softening slightly. She needed to drive things home while she had the chance.

"I might think certain celebrities are cool but they aren't the ones playing boardgames with me or helping me bake or letting me lean on them while watching TV. That's all you. Admiring people from afar isn't at all the same as appreciating them up close. Can you understand that?"

"You like these people because they felt like your friends from a distance when you didn't have any?" he clarified.

"Basically."

Bree was surprised he cut straight to the heart of the matter but he wasn't wrong. Fiction and celebrities helped fill a void in her heart left by a lack of real emotional connections in her life.