"You make me wish I'd brought you cookies," Jayden said to Jamie, and he was completely serious. "I wish we'd known each other growing up too. Your dad could have been nice to me and I'd have let you share my food. I mean, he didn't always feed us, but it was always there. I just had to sneak it sometimes."
To Roxanna he shook his head and said easily, "my father was bitter. And I'm not going to be like him."