John didn"t relax. Sitting on the boxes in the garage he seemed more wired than usual. Since he was a kid he"d relied on Charlie. Roxy had never understood it. John was stronger, smarter, faster. He didn"t need Charlie, not like Charlie needed him, but without his big brother he was at a total loss. Roxy sometimes wondered what would have happened if Charlie hadn"t made it through surgery a year ago. He tried to imagine what John would do, where he would go. It always seemed that one didn"t exist without the other, but that wasn"t the case. Charlie had his family and John had whatever it was he did when Charlie was being dad.
But now John was lost. There was a girl asleep in the back of the car who needed his help, but he wouldn"t move without his brother. Roxy had seen this before, the n
