I like 1 and 3 the most too honestly, how about uh. maybe I can mash them together, hold up

so what if she was fostering him for a while (somewhere between 13-14 maybe?) and he kind of started warming up to her before deciding one day that she'd never actually permanently want her around (whether he's actually correct or not, he jumped to conclusions because Issues) so he took off for like a week and got rehoused/brought back to the orphanage/etc and now he's stuck between visiting her frequently because he likes her a lot and has cats for her and being a bitter bitch in her direction