“Saw?” he creaked, stretching it into a yawn, and of all the moments of this whole thing, this was by far the longest one. It was like the world was suddenly this huge balloon inflating around me, everything swelling at once, the pressure all around pounding in breath by breath. I hadn’t expected him to say my name, I mean, hadn’t expected him to call me what he and no one else had been calling me since third grade.
