For a minute he debates the logic of telling her. He knows what the other boys call him. The other name, the wrong name, the one that gets him skelped when he tries to tell them no. But she doesn't look like she's going away, so that means he'll have to go along with it.

"Nick," he says decisively. He thinks maybe he's supposed to stick out a hand, but he never saw the point of doing things like that.