"Not as dirty as I might have made that sound," he chuckled. "I never felt loved growing up. My family life wasn't happy. I had everything I could possibly want, but something was always missing. That and my stupid older brothers liked to beat the shit out of me, but-" he waved his hands around, since it didn't really bother him much. "So deciding I was sick because I was all twitterpated over a boy was basically the last straw and I left. And boy was I wrong to think I knew anything about life being rough before then."