In this passage, Noah and Jude reconnect after a summer of being mostly disconnected from one another. Noah has been hanging out with Brian every single day, and even making friends with some of Jude’s friends—much to her jealousy and dismay. Jude harbors feelings of insecurity because she believes that their mother likes Noah best—and the idea that now her friends do, too, has been more than she can bear. In this scene, however, the siblings reunite and apologize to one another. As they do, their seemingly psychic connection and codependent tendencies, such as their inability to choose different answers…