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Things got weird

So weird that he took off onSunday afternoon and not showing up again until Thursday I had no idea where he went and didn’t ask hiet less uncoe around each other for so long …

At least Noah started school without any probleood at es caer left on his club run (I wasn’t a hundred percent sure what “runs” were, but apparently this one involved being gone for five days), he’d handed ested I wait until the next week to start job hunting He wanted to explore work options with the club, and also thought I should focus on helping Noah adjust to his new situation

I’d love to say I’, independent woe relief I couldn’t remember the last ti, sucked up the sun and got reacquainted with the area

I also spent an afternoon with my old friend Kimber

She invited h the years, and last summer I’d stayed with her and her new husband e caraduation Then she ineer and apparently did pretty well for hi up like mushrooms out on the Rathdruer’s, but twice the size and pretty iarita?” she asked, opening the door in a bikini, a brightly colored wrap, and sunglasses that would’ve s never change

“This early?”

“It’s always happy hour when you have kids,” she replied, shrugging “Either that or it’s sad hour, and that’s not half as rinned at each other like total dorks

“So, you want one or not?” she asked, dragging rand entryway and down the hall to her kitchen “Because I’ She finally fell asleep about fifteen ain I need to make the most of it and pack in six weeks’ worth of social life before you go”

“Okay,” I told her “But just one I have to drive and pick up Noah later I take it you’re enjoyingo-shaped ste Ava is But it’s crazy, too I had no idea how much work they could be—I still can’t believe you did this when you were seventeen I couldn’t even find my keys half the time back then, let alone keep track of a baby”

“Well, so back to those early days After Noah, I’d gone to the alternative high school and lived with Ruger’s ured it out What doesn’t kill us, and all that shit”

I waved my hand airily to illustrate the point

Kiain God, I loved her Weat a tile-topped table under a vine-draped pergola Her backyard really was gorgeous Totally different than Ruger’s wild acreage … Kimber had a perfectly manicured little Garden of Eden in the suburbs

“So, you’re staying with Jesse Gray,” she said, arching a brow I laughed