"Fair enough, but I'm serious about the volunteering," Armaan said, and he watched his mother visibly relax. "Do you do any volunteering on Thanksgiving? At soup kitchens or anything? We could do that together too, before coming here? If you wanted to." Maybe Freddie didn't want to spend that much time with Armaan, but Armaan sure did! And he had always meant to do something like that. Now he had an in!
"I think that would be such a beautiful thing for you two to do together," Rhadika spoke up. "We could have our meal later in the evening so you could be out in the afternoon."