"Hey, you!"
Toby glanced over his shoulder to see a boy with a bandana and wild eyes rushing towards him, waving. Toby stopped and let the boy catch up.
"What's your name?" the boy panted.
"Toby."
"I'm Luke! Wanna come to the Garmon Mines' river with my buddies and I to go swimming sometime?"
Toby happily accepted. However, the next day when he met Luke, Owen, and Bo at the river, he instantly decided they weren't his kind of people. Toby had scraped his knees so badly that day, he made up polite excuses to avoid those boys forever after.