“I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.”

“My parents, I mean, me and my parents were wondering if you might want them to adopt you”

• After Justin and Clay have their talk, they share the news with Clay’s parents
• Lainie beams and embraces both of them
• Matt just smiles and claps a hand on both of their shoulders
• They ask Justin if he’d like to make their guest room his room
• And he says yes
• But it’s on the first floor and it’s too quiet and lonely at night
• So he ends up sleeping in the upstairs hallway one night after a particularly bad nightmare
• Clay wakes up early and literally trips over Justin’s head
• Once Justin explains what happened, Clay just rolls his eyes, and says, “Jesus, next time just come sleep in my room. It’s not like I mind.” Then he shoves Justin good-naturedly, and says, “Listen, you fucking detoxed from heroin all over my bedroom floor. You should know by know that you can come sleep in my room whenever.”
• Lainie is the one who notices Justin’s been using again
• She finds his stash when she’s doing the laundry one day
• When she asks him about it, he denies it, but once she shows him what she found he knows he’s busted
• And then he just cries
• It’s like everything that’s been building up for so long, and the shame within him for relapsing after he promised to get clean just hurts so bad
• They took him in, and he feels like he doesn’t deserve it
• She just hugs him for a while and rubs his back, which makes him cry harder because he never really had comfort like this from his mom (or a mother figure) before
• She tells him that they’ll get him into a program for recovery from substance abuse
• It slips out before he can stop it, “Thanks, Mom.”
• It surprises both of them
• But Lainie just smiles and kisses his forehead. “You’re welcome, honey.”
• When Clay finds out that Justin is going into a program, he tells him of when he had to sign up for a substance abuse program because of the weed that was planted on him at school
• He assures him that the program will be good for him
• Because obviously Clay knew he was nervous
• Clay and Justin seem to have an intuition for each other’s feelings 
• Matt is the one who tries to get Justin back into his hobbies
• He offers to shoot hoops with him, even though he’s really bad at it
• He helps Justin with his homework and is always patient with him in a way Clay sometimes isn’t
• They have family game nights and family movie nights
• They’re always disgusting adorable and cliché
• Matt never stops making dad jokes
• Matt teaches Justin how to cook
• Justin discovers that he really likes it
• And he really likes having a family to cook for
• On his adoption day, they all dress up and take lots of pictures (much to Clay’s and Justin’s dismay)
• Justin decides to hyphenate his last name because as he put it, “I don’t think I want to forget my past and where I came from but…I want to commit to this family, you know? I want your last name. You guys are the best thing that ever happened to me”
• It’s a very emotional moment
• A big family group hug ensues, started by Clay’s mom 
• They throw a big party for Justin’s adoption day with all his new relatives and friends
• After people are starting to clear out, Justin and Clay are sitting on the side by themselves
• Clay says, “You know, I kind of always wanted a sibling growing up. Being an only child can be kind of lonely sometimes.”
• Justin just smiles and punches his arm and says, “You’re tellin’ me.”
• They both just laugh
• The Jensen family never felt so complete or whole
• Even if they argue, they love and accept each other at the end of the day
• And they make each other better people

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“My parents, I mean, me and my parents were wondering if you might want them to adopt you”