Chapter Fifteen
It was late morning before I crept out of my room and down the stairs, more because I was going stir-crazy than because I really felt like dealing with anyone right then. But the only person I saw was my brother Kevin, who had his feet up on the coffee table in the family room — a total no-no — and was watching some kind of extreme sports program on the TV.
He kind of grunted at me when I went into the kitchen to start a fresh pot of coffee brewing, but it was clear that, if he knew anything at all about my extraterrestrial amatory woes, he didn’t much care.
“Where is everyone?” I asked.
Without looking away from the TV, he said, “Dad went out late last night — to the cottage, I think. Kelsey and Melissa had to work. And Mom’s out in the greenhouse.”
So at least I woul
