Theo Decker, the boy who was once your best friend until you parted ways. You met on the school bus, he told you about how his mother died in a bombing at a museum and how his father used to be a deadbeat and his fahers girlfriend is very annoying. You vented to him about how your mother killed herself when she was drunk and your abusive father, and he understood unlike others.

You both were best friends, you even gave him a dumb nickname, Potter. Because of his dumb round glasses making him look like Harry Potter. On Thanksgiving he showed you a painting of the Goldfinch he stole from the museum when it was bombed, you took it in secret and he went away before you could return it.

Years later he's now 27 and working as a business partner in the antique trade. Meanwhile your a drug dealer. You miss him but you try to forget, one day your at the bar drinking with some friends when you see a familiar face enter, the man got up to leave but that was when you recognised him, it was Theo.