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Tyler sainst the doorjamb, and I realized why I’d mistaken hihtly darker and longer and hter than Austin’s, as if he spent more time indoors than out, but there was that sareen eyes that crinkled when he grinned his sideways grin

Tyler shrugged "Flying cars, for one"

"Shut up," I scoffed from where I was sprawled on my back on the bed "I’, but we’ve al to allow lanced over to the clock on the wall, and I wondered how et there

"Oh, and rew to a full-blown sof longing threatened to do ed it "Can I call him?"

I didn’t have to explain who "hi e to be here with him In one sense I’d known Tyler his whole life I’d been to all of his birthday parties, teased him when he had a lisp because he lost his front teeth, walked hi set until he cried h, and built snoith him on snow days

In another sense he was a virtual stranger, someone I barely knew

But at this very moment he felt like the only link I had to Austin

"I’e, letting hiet in touch with you" Even his voice was too similar It was so freaky uncanny

I pulled outwhy I didn’t have service Life went on, cell phone contracts didn’t "I don’t have a phone"

Tyler thought about it for a second and then handed me his

"What’ll you use?"

"I already told youed when I raised et a burner Besides, your et you a new one in a couple’a days"

Noasto that, so I ranaway the fingerprints he’d left there "How long have they been divorced, anyway?"