Bruce sipped his own coffee. "Well, Jay, Marcus, and I are best friends. The Three Stooges, they call us. Them, I get. Even if Jay gets a little weird when she's all green. And I grew up knowing Sarah, of course."

He went on. "But the rest? Can't say I know any of them all that well, really. Vincent's always been kinda moody and off to himself, Erin's new, Susan, I know a little, Nicky not much at all, and Roxie... It's complicated there."