would somehow jinx it.
First year of high school, when Marcus came home with a debate trophy and put it on the kitchen counter without saying anything, just left it there for Walter to find, and Walter had stood in the kitchen alone for 10 minutes staring at it.
Darnell’s obsession with numbers, which became an obsession with accounting, which became an obsession with forensic accounting after he checked out a library book on financial fraud at 14 and could not stop talking about it.
Calvin’s quiet fury at injustice,
