Why? James wondered. Some people seemed to actually want to help people. Like Mr. Meijer. Although he also made him go to school, so that wasn't really helping. But some people pretended to help but didn't actually want to and Noah told him to stay away from strangers who seemed nice for no reason.

He could always run away and the man would harm Ruth's kids instead.

"Uhm... I think it was Rose... but I went to the bakery and there was nobody there."