Blueberry wanted to go. She'd seen her food appear and Coconut was eating but Kaden wasn't letting her go, she'd tugged and he'd felt this thing that was like panic, almost, and clung to her a little tighter. He didn't want her to leave, he didn't want to cross the fence to the other house and play board games, he wanted to stay with this dog, because... because...
He just knew he wanted to stay with this dog, but this dog wanted to leave him, and he couldn't stop that, but when she finally wiggled away toward her bowl it cracked at his heart.
Marcie was making dumb jokes about pizza. Maybe that could be some kind of heart bandaid.