The ringleader, she understood, was Connor, who strutted with calculated arrogance. He was always the first to mock. His sidekick, Malik, loved following the leader. Together, with the others, they played loudly, roughly, and brought disaster to people and things around them.
Sometimes, they went a bit overboard. They yanked up garden stakes and filmed cheap pranks for hollow laughs online. They thought youth gave them immunity, that the world owed them laughter at someone else’s expense. They didn’t fully understand, or care about, the concept of karma.