"There you go!" Leon laughed as he shared, not wanting to find the situation amusing but doing so anyway. He wondered if the other boy had gotten enough to eat for his other meals. Teenagers had those growth spurts, didn't they? Maybe Keman was going through one of those.

That thought led to him wondering if he was ever going to have a growth spurt of his own. What if one day after he reached puberty he'd wake up to find he was taller than Claude?

Right. He doubted that would happen.