Which explains his smirk-and-snort reaction, shaking his head a little. Fond amusement.

There's no one more important in Sam's life than his brother. But that doesn't mean, and has never meant, that they should share everything.


He pushes up from the porch, hands slipping into the pockets of his jacket, where keys jingle. "I should get going before it gets dark," he says, as if it explains everything.