“What difference would a male counselor make?” she asked.
“He’s a thirteen-year-old boy,” Nathaniel said.
“So?”
“Tomas is just learning, or trying to become, the kind of man he’s going to be. While he’s trying to figure out what it means to be a man, he’s kidnapped, shot, and he couldn’t protect his sister,” Micah said.
“Connie is our older sister; she’s always protected us,” Mercedes said.
“But that was when Tomas was a kid; he’s not really a kid anymore,” Nathaniel said.