Chapter 13
By the afternoon, Demi still hadn’t given any kind of an answer, and Tab decided to leave him alone. Maxi didn’t cry, so this had to be kind of a big deal, and maybe he wasn’t even allowed his phone on where Alice was in the hospital?
The gym was quiet when he arrived. The intermediate class had already started, so Tab set himself up behind the reception desk with his tablet and sketchpad and began to draw, of all things, more peanuts. (For practice, he told himself, but there was no lying to the gods. A God of Nick was being formed. Maybe even Nick himself was a God.)
He was halfway through the first page of the comic when the door opened, and it was so unusual—nobody arrived halfway through a class, they were far too early for the next one—that he paused and looked up.
“Hi
