Alan stopped and turned his body halfway, looking impatiently over his shoulder.
Link mumbled something.
“What?”
“Behind Kurt’s place,” Link said. “He said he was going to go look around behind Kurt’s place.”
“Thank you, Link,” he said. He turned all the way around and got down to eye level with the other girl. “Nice to meet you,” he said. He wanted to tell her, Be careful or Stay alert or Get out while the getting’s good, but none of that seemed likely to make much of an impression on her.
She smiled and her friend came back with three beers. “You’ve got a great house,” she said.
Her friend said, “Yeah, it’s amazing.”
“Well, thank you,” he said.
“Bye,” they said.
Link’s gaze bored into the spot between his shoulder blades the whole way to the end of the block.