"Ohmygosh," Emily whispered all at once as she took the Dalmation puppy offered to her. She immediately took to burying her face in the black and white coat. "Hello handsome~."<br/><br/>Matt almost laughed at how entirely unfazed Emily could be at any given time when there was something small and furry in the general vicinity. Almost. What was supposed to be a laugh came out as just blowing air out of his nose in amusement. Maybe his distaste for the entire situation was tangible, because even Travis took note of it.<br/><br/>"You okay?" he asked, prompting Matt to snap out of his separate sect of the world into the reality that he was currently living. The reality in which both of his grandparents on his father's side were now dead, he was in a place with people he couldn't really say that he knew anymore, and he didn't even have his father to shoulder the burden with.<br/><br/>Matt waved his hand in a polite dismissal. "Yeah, I'm good. It's just.. It's been a while, you know?" His voice trailed off hopelessly. Been a while since<span style="font-style: italic">what</span>exactly? He couldn't definitively say one way or the other, but it was likely that it had been a while since he had been to this place. Years, in fact, and he hadn't so much as gotten to say hello to his grandma in that time before she passed. How horrible a grandchild he must be. He briefly pondered the idea of whether or not Grandma Maude still remembered that he loved her when she passed, or if she died thinking that he'd hated her because he didn't visit anymore. The thought made him ill, and he idly scratched the Dalmation puppy's scruff in attempts to take his mind off of it.<br/><br/>Biting back a deep exhale - he was never one for<span style="font-style: italic">sighing</span>, Matt leaned against the threshold of his old room. It had stayed just the same as he'd remembered it, right down to the curtains that remained open during the daylight to let the sun in, bathing the room's fixtures in a glorious mixture of yellows and oranges. It would have seemed serene, had he been here for any other purpose. Now it just made him hurt to enjoy it without the company of the grandmother who had taught him to enjoy little things like that.