"And who's going to teach him that?" He asked, taking a seat at the gazebo, placing the gift on the table top without a word about it. "You?"

He didn't understand Ray's fascination with basketball, but if it was something he thought he'd want to strike up an interest in and share with Daniel, he was welcome to. If it worked, and Daniel did wind up enjoying it, then it meant Asher didn't have to pretend to care about it when Ray brought it up, since he'd have someone else to share it with.

Or he'd have to pretend twice as much...