Chapter 13: Monday
Matt
Matt woke to an eerily silent house. No showers running, no sounds of breakfast sizzling downstairs, no rock music from Brian’s room. As soon as he woke, the throbbing in his fist welcomed him to a new day. The mornings were colder, and he shivered as he threw the blankets off him and got out of the warmth of his bed. Pained knuckles moaned as he gripped the handle to the bathroom but he smiled with satisfaction.
Whatever the pain in his hand, Adam was feeling it a hundred times more that morning. It lifted his mood as he soaked his hand under the hot jet of water from the shower, and he allowed himself to feel like a badass for the briefest amount of time.
Even though the fluffy bath sheet wrapped around his waist he still shuddered at the cold air in Brian’s r
