"If you don't have any money, I can give you some so you can afford the tickets back home," he said, ignoring how these girls had shown up here in the first place. If it were Lance, he wouldn't have ignored it.
But this also appropriately showed that he was, after all, just a young man not yet twenty... no, he had just turned twenty.
He didn't have Lance's "maturity"; he wanted to mature, but it demanded growth space and some sacrifice.
Lance had told him if someone came asking for help, like someone wanting a little money because they were hungry, and some only wanted something to eat, then give food to the former and a bit of money to the latter.
Those asking for materials often really encountered trouble, but those asking for money, not necessarily.
The girls shook their heads in unison. "We don't really want to go back; we want to stay here. Everyone says you guys are the most trustworthy people around here, and we want a job to support ourselves."
