"We can say hello and then run away if he's mean." Gideon explained as he let Holden remove his shoes for him. He wondered if Jonathan was scary and if he could play with him or not. Probably not, if Holden said he was not nice. Not nice and a teeth puller... maybe he'd say hello from a distance.

"If he's your brother, what is he to me?" How did it work? He wanted to understand family so badly, he wanted to be able to brag to others.