Chapter 5The servers went further into the bar area with Preston and Allison, and Kellen walked up to me. The unidentified young man also came with Kellen. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Kind of short for a full-grown man, maybe only five ten, with a perfectly cut haircut of light brown hair. The sides and back looked like they’d been recently trimmed.
“Don’t look so shocked, Montgomery,” he said, although the voice sounded very familiar. “Yes, it’s me.”
I was stunned. “Pat? What happened to your hair?”
“It’s always like this. Patrice has a vast collection of wigs, but I go to the barber regularly.”
“Quite a difference, isn’t it?” Kellen said. “If I hadn’t been here early enough to meet her…uh, him, I wouldn’t have recognized him or her, either.”
“Don’t worry about your pronouns,” h
