Chapter 3
“Hey, Dad, are you busy tonight?” Jesse asked when Darren answered his phone.
“Well, I was going to take up knitting,” Darren replied.
“Uh-huh.” Jesse laughed. “Would you like to come to dinner instead?”
“Sure. What time?”
“Say around six?”
“Great. I’ll see you then. Want me to pick up some wine?”
“No thanks. We’re good.”
Darren hung up then went back to what he was doing, which was cleaning house since it was his day off.
He wasn’t terribly surprised—annoyed, but not surprised—when he showed up at Jesse and Leah’s apartment to find Malcom had been invited, too.
“They said they’re celebrating something, which is why I’m here. But they wouldn’t say what,” Malcom told him when Darren asked.
“That’s more than Jesse told me,” Darren replied, feeling a bit hurt that Malcom
