"Most people do," he points out with a grin. She probably knows all this stuff already, deep down, so he doesn't think he's entirely helping, but maybe she just needs someone to reassure her. Nate trusts Beth to know her own mind and her own heart and if he's needed to nudge her along in the right direction every now and then he's happy to do it.

In truth, he'd kind of been waiting for her and Daryl to get back together to, but if that's not what she wants then it's not what should happen. "To hell with everyone else," he says, because if there's ever been a motto that Nate lived his life by, it's that. Second only to sic parvas magna. "Maybe you just need to tell Curtis what you want." He bets it's not one sided, not with a sweet girl like Beth, so it just comes down to putting everything on the table.

"Just ask him," he says, taking a sip of his coffee. "Tell him you wanna jump his bones and see what happens."