How he got through dinner without letting his emotions show at the dropping of the bombshell of Reggie’s moving in with Hank and Ted, Brad didn’t know. As soon as he could extricate himself from his dads after helping David with the clean-up he made his way to his room and called Hank. As it was still early evening he got Hank's voicemail.
“Hi, Hank,” Brad said into the phone, working as hard as he could not to let what was going on in his mind show. “Just wonderin’ how you all are doin’? Nothin’s wrong,” he added, not wanting to alarm Hank.” Maybe you should be alarmed, he added mentally. “Call me when you can. Doesn’t matter how late.” He thought about adding, Just wanna hear your voice, but felt it made him sound too needy.
Brad lay down on his bed, staring at the ceiling. He kept tr
