Serena agreed. Camping was perfect. Just the two men. She had encouraged his closeness to Wilson. The boy didn’t know his biological father and the title “Dad” had been Kale’s early on.
Late the preceding night, while Serena and Kale were out, it had unexpectedly started to rain. It rained hard all night. By late morning, the rain had stopped and it looked like it might dry up. But by mid-afternoon the rain returned. While Kale was out shopping, Serena broke the news to Wilson that the camping trip was off. Nature gave and nature took away.
A tank drove by outside, shaking Kale’s trailer like a small earth tremor. Somebody outside shouted about going to chow. Kale, not wanting to be disturbed, locked the doors.
His thoughts returned to Wilson. Sometimes you try to do special things, and
