“I
didn’t mean to take the dreidel, honestly I didn’t!” Asher almost shouted. “I ran away just now because I was scared, but obviously you know all that already anyway, and it wasn’t on purpose!”
“You’d better come in,” I said. I led Asher to my room and sat down beside him on the bed. “Now, tell me everything.”
I expected him to tell about the dreidel, but to my surprise he said, “I… I’m sorry I wasn’t nice to you, when you were so friendly with the chocolate balls and everything. I didn’t want to make any friends here, do you see?”
“No, I don’t. Why didn’t you want to make any friends?”
