"You don't have to watch for anything? That's the security team's job."
Yours is just to watch tennis and eat too many snacks."
"I know that's the official job," Drew said, with the precision of someone correcting a minor inaccuracy. "But I would feel better if I also watched. Two sets of eyes catch more than one set." He said this with complete reasonableness, as though he were explaining a fact about birds rather than a coping mechanism he'd built for himself in the space of forty-eight hours.
I didn't argue with him. I pulled him in instead, careful of my ribs, and held him for a moment longer than either of us probably needed, and let him watch for whatever he needed to watch for if it helped him feel like the world was a place he had some say in.
I decided to play. Not bravado, I
