Okay, good. Scooting has happened, and the arm around his shoulders means closeness is okay. He wraps his arm around her waist in return, and takes his baseball cap off and tosses it in the sand, so he can duck his head slightly to lean against her shoulder. They're both pretty short so it's easy for either of them to lean on each other's shoulders like this.

So, scooting? Good. But the fact that the word "traumatizing" has been bandied around? Bad. Very bad.

"Do you need to talk about it? Or do you just want, y'know... this?"

The snuggling.

"You know how it is. I've done the whole trauma merry-go-around enough that I...I figured some stuff out. Just like you've figured stuff out. But sometimes we figure out different stuff, so if you need it, we can try to do another stuff exchange? And see if that helps."