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A knock sounds at my door, and I jolt with surprise No one even knows I', so I ignore it The knocking continues, but I head to the couch and pick up the TV remote

A buzzing ina text from Lisa

Open your damned door

What the hell?

I scurry offit open Lisa stands there, holding a carry-on suitcase with a devious smile on her face "Hey, baby sister"

Stepping backward, I blink in surprise as Lisa walks in, setting her suitcase down As I close the door, I ask her, "What are you doing here?"

"Well see, I have this little sister who has been ignoringweeks, so I orried about her"

"How did you even knoas here?" I ask, astounded that she's standing inroom

"Because I called Randall and he told o through all of that and not even tell me? Not even let me help you?"

Her voice is laced with chastisee dose of sy her ar in to them

I start sobbing loudly on her shoulder as she strokes my back and coos words of comfort to me

"Let it out, sweetie," she cajoles "Let it out"

And I do for the first time since Zach left me, I pour out every bit of my heartache and loneliness onto her in the form of tears and a little bit of snot

When I aet myself under control, I take a deep breath and pull back from her She eyes me critically "God, you're a hot mess"

I stare at her aI cover hter dies down, and Lisa looks at me with soft eyes

"Here's e're going to do You're going to go get a shower, because dao out to a nice dinner, and you're going to tellOkay?"

I nod at her even as a few stray tears leak out of lad you're here"

"I'm always here for you," she tells me as she shoos me toward the bathroom

"The not knohat happened to Zach is killing me," I tell Lisa as I pick at the chicken pri lasses of wine before our dishes came, and I was pleasantly buzzed

"Of course that would be worrying you," she sy a broken heart that he's gone You have a lot on your plate, baby"

Nodding my head, I spear a chunk of chicken with my fork and tentatively put it in ood After I chew and s, I stab another piece of chicken, waving my fork in the air at her "He just left so suddenly and he wouldn't talk toback"

Misery overwhelms me and I let the fork fall from my hand, where it clatters loudly on my plate

"How long do you think you'll be sunk in this ?"

"Excuse er rises within me

"Oh, come on, Moira You're not one to sit around andin pity Your er, and it's worrying you silly I get it But my baby sister is a dynamo She'd never sit back and just wait around for bad news to arrive"

"What in the hell do you think I should do?" I ask bitterly "It's not like I can call him on his cell phone"

"Well, no shit, Sherlock So get off your ass and go find out what happened"

"Go find out what happened?" I ask stupidly

"Listen if he's dead, you need to know If he's not, you need to know So go find out"