Chapter 16
“Sure. Why not?” Kade shrugged. “You still might want to go home and change, dude.” Kade looked Henry up and down, and Henry caught that he was on the verge of laughing. “You look ridiculous.”
“Thanks. I’ll go do that and come right over.”
Henry hurried away and had to restrain himself from running the two blocks or so to his house. Kade lived on Judson, one of the east-west streets that ended at the lake, in a condo with his mother. Like many of Henry’s classmates, he was a child of divorce. Kade’s dad had left long ago and was now living in Las Vegas, last Henry heard, managing one of the casinos there. Kade had lived in the nearby two-bedroom condo as long as Henry could remember.
He had to keep himself from looking back at Kade as he hurried—not too fast—toward home. Today was turning out to be a surprising day.