Chapter 4Cal was gone when I woke up the next morning. The first time I woke up, I should say, when I had to pee. The second time was when Devon came to the bedroom door at six thirty.
“Dude! It’s six thirty!” He’d slept downstairs on the floor in the basement to “protect” Beth, because Julius was on night shift for a week. Beth had convinced him he was needed, figuring Cal and I wouldn’t want him underfoot. I wondered if she knew something.
Devon may as well have slept right where he usually did, though. Things were awkward all evening between Cal and me. We’d both fallen asleep before ten, after struggling with inane conversation about the Jets, Super Smash Bros for Nintendo, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. At least we had varied interests. A couple of times, Cal had gotten h
