"You know how you never had friends and I was always super popular? Still true now. Friends around the house. Friends up on the roof. Friends down in the basement." Jerome was loud, that was another thing that had always been true. Loud and seeing no need for Jeremiah to say a word in return in order to keep up a conversation with him.

"Don't startle any of the ones on the roof, lil bro. They might fall." Jervis always did such a stellar job.

And Jerome knocked again, while deciding whether he had to run any place. "Knock, knock."