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“Not on me, no but I could find it at the apartency contact I can dig it up”

Ithe check

“Want another?” I said to her just before I did

“No”

About ten minutes later, Katy and I stood in the lobby of the hotel I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket and swiped it on

“All right,” I began “So are you gonna text me the info for her parents or…”

As I spoke, I glanced down at Katy to see her wiping tears away fro I’d noticed, she sed hard and waved her hand in front of her face

“Sorry,” she said with a rasp “I’m sorry”

I nodded and sht I promise We’ll find her and work it out Okay?”

She nodded, but even so, the tears continued to flow As they did, Katy reached in her bag and ruh it After thirty seconds or so, she still hadn’t come up with a tissue

What the hell ith her and Maddie and these purses?

Just then, a roo quickly, I reached down and snatched a clean dinner napkin from it

“The gold napkin ring is no charge” I said, as I handed it to her

Her shoulders jostled in amusement as she took it from me and dabbed at her eyes

“Thank you, Grey”

“Anytime”

As she dried her tears, she looked up atI never would have expected from someone as hard-nosed as her

“Could I hug you?”

Stunned, I hesitated for a moment or two before I replied “Really? No shit huh?”

She nodded and fought back another round of tears

“Okay, all right” I replied, as I openedscene out of it”

As she wrapped her arms around my midsection, Katy pressed her face hard into my chest and muttered, “I miss her Grey So much”

I slid my arm down around her

“I understand, Katy,” I began “I really do”

MADDIE

Gray skies, corn and shame

Those were three rew up in, in Indiana And a few days after my bloith Grey and Katy, it here I found o back, you ask, to a place where I’d be wet all the ti-driven fineto you like Nature’s own blanket of death?

Why, oh why, indeed? Well, the ansas simpler than you’d expect

Desperation

Los Angeles was just too coht now Katy brokeelse As far the business went, Grey could have it if he wanted it I was done Good luck dragging me back So on the heels of that mess, what better place to return to than the place that rejected o?

To saythe obvious, like saying the sky in Indiana from October until April is the color of the inside of a dirty ashtray Of the two of theend in a land filled with them

In their defense, they wanted the best for me, like most parents do When I’d left with Trevor for Hollywood five years before without beingon er, well, let’s just say they weren’t thrilled And even though ht as well have considering all the contact we’d had since, which was none

Yet, in the wake of everything happening back in LA, I needed to get away and clearoff to some tropical locale? Because I’m a complete idiot is why! Not only that, but I was certain my first encounter with them would be filled with ‘I told you so’s and ‘you never listen’s which, uh, I dreaded Even though I wasn’t religiousif I said I didn’t pray for a quick and painless reunionscolding from them