"Like...like you and I?" Sasha blinked, looking at Nick curiously for a moment. Nick thought they were good friends? "Oh. Okay," he said with a smile. "I never really had friends before coming to school. Sometimes it's kinda hard trying to make friends with people. Wendy and me get along really well but he doesn't talk a lot and he hates going outside in summer. With everybody else it's the other way around."
Jealous tension dissolved, Sasha resumed his usual chattiness. If Nick was good friends with Brendan in the same way they were friends then there was nothing to worry about. Right?
"Wendy's good at cooking, but he gets disappointed if there's no meat, even if it looks or tastes like meat! I dunno if he'd enjoy making just cookies. Maybe we could go somewhere instead, like catch the bus into Rockport on a Saturday. They'll have lights up in December!"