“So?” someone asked in a low voice. “What do you guys think? There’s something, right…?”
“Yeah…” another answered, also taking care not to be overheard. “In fact, I would go so far as to say there might be a past in there somewhere.”
“You think…?”
“Well, didn’t you see Ren walk off during lunch yesterday?”
“I didn’t really notice. They were fine during dinner though.”
“But then that thing happened at the party.”
“What? Wasn’t that just Ren running off to puke?”
“Nah, dude. He was crying.”
“Ohhh…”
As the small group stood in a clump on one corner of the building site—supposedly watching as the construction workers demonstrated how to dig foundations—they fell silent at this new piece of gossip.
Then something began occurring to them all, and one asked, “Yo, Hassan… did Ren even re
