“And you guys remember each other from that?” Derrick asked.
Chad and Lee laughed again. “Well, there was a little more to it than that,” Chad said.
“That’s how it started, though,” Lee said. “Your brother got me into a place. It was right up the street from your house,” he said to Chad. “Remember?”
Chad nodded. “It’s still there.”
“Which kind of sucked at the time.” Lee laughed. “Some runaway I turned out to be. I had this big cop checking up on me all the time. Made sure I was going to school.”
“Made sure he was keeping out of trouble.”
“Which I couldn’t get into even when I tried,” Lee said, laughing. “Nobody really wanted Big Cop’s Best Friend along for the ride. I think I snuck into the movies once, bad seed that I was.”
“He went off to Denver,” Chad said, “and I haven’t heard
