"The whole thing is... strange." Jake's lips thinned as he thought how to explain. "I mean, she isn't really my grandmother, I only call her that. She's mostly a friend of the family but... when my parents started getting weirder and weirder, it was a great place to escape to. I knew my real grandparents but they were old when I was adopted, so I didnt really know-know them and they died before I was even ten."