There were few easier ways to get Kaden on side than with a conspiratorial whisper, and though he was still feeling cautious, he was cautiously interested.
The idea hit him quietly: he could make a hilarious TikTok out of yo-yo lessons.
Kaden brushed the idea away though. His account was dead, it had to be, it was too recognisably him, the missing boy lost to gang violence. And what was the point in making a video if he didn't have heaps of people hanging out to see it?
He could still do something dumb and make Marcie laugh though. And this guy. He looked like he'd laugh easy. "That's why we came to Burlington," he said. "Excitement in New York wasn't pure enough."