Chapter 36

“Yup.”

“Shoot.”

“Shoot? You were supposed to be watching him,” Erika said.

“I was, Kiki.”

“Do you at least know what guy he left with?”

“Vij, maybe?”

“How old is he?” she asked.

“Twenty…whatever. Our age,” Tom Alan said. “Kensuke’s age…Somewhere in between, I guess.”

“You guess.” Erika shook her head.

“He was doing okay, though…laughing and goofing off.”

“Putting up a man front.”

“A what now?”

“A man front, Tom Alan. Pretending everything’s fine by batting, kicking, or…pucking something.”

Tom Alan had the nerve to almost smile. “We don’t puck. If anything, we stick.”