29Up front, T. Zara sips his jumbo drink and adjusts his granny glasses. "Meep meep," he says, and then he walks out through a door to an interconnecting room. When he comes back, he's carrying a black shopping bag with white cord handles.
Everyone watches as he puts the bag on the floor and bends down to reach into it. He pulls out a filthy brown work boot and puts it on one of the front desks, just plops it down in front of the black-haired boy who's sitting there.
Reaching into the bag again, T. Zara pulls out a white cardboard Chinese food carton, followed by a pair of chopsticks and a compact umbrella. He sets all the items down in front of the black-haired kid.
(The whole time, he never puts his drink down.)
When T. Zara's done putting things on the desk, he looks out at the
