"For all you know I meet him all the time. But yeah, I don't know. He just likes the name, don't you? Twinkle star." Not surprising, given how much he loved the song.

"You're not a dumbass, Axel. You're an artist. That cake you made the other night? It was beautiful." Hartley laughed at the face Axel pulled and shrugged. "Don't like the licking?" There was something endearing about Axel being freaked out by a puppy. "Once some guy was making his dogs attack me, but I got them to stop." Homelessness, not a fond memory there.