"What happened?"
"I got scared and rode home. The next morning, when everyone started talking about the fire and what happened to you..." He swallowed hard. "I kept thinking if I told anyone, Mason's life would be over."
"So you stayed quiet?"
"I was nine."
That made me stop for a second.
He explained that Mason kept getting into more trouble as he got older. Juvenile detention. Fights. Eventually, prison.
But Caleb never stopped thinking about that night.
Especially after starting the same school as me years later.
