Hayden
"I'm so excited to be here." I stick my hand in the plastic bag of cotton candy we got as soon as we stepped onto the midway.
"It's been years since I've come to the Thunderfest." Danny puts his arm around my neck as we walk along the main thoroughfare.
"I missed this more than I thought I would."
"One of the comforts of home?"
"Yeah, but you don't realize how much you're going to miss it until you aren't around all the time."
"Sometimes, I feel like I missed out on a lot. Most of my family doesn't live here and the ones that do, either they like us or they don't."
This is a topic we haven't discussed and I wonder if now's the time to do that. "Why doesn't your family who lives here get along?"
"It's not that we don't get along." He pulls me closer as we stroll. "They don't
