---Max---
I’d been hoping that I’d be able to be useful in our makeshift center of operations. I’d settled myself at Nate’s coffee table, getting out paper, pencils, highlighters, and connecting my phone to Nate’s printer to print out anything of use. Then I waited. …And waited.
Finally, after what felt like an age of sitting on my ass, Nate walked back in. “Nate, my one true best friend of all best friends. My friend-soulmate!”
Nate rolled his eyes. “That’s enough of your shenanigans.”
“Okay, bestie! What did you find out?” I threw my arm around him in an attempt to cheer him up.
He lowered himself slowly onto an armchair. “Absolutely nothing. I looked through all his hiding places and I didn’t find anything. There was nothing there at all. So I wasted my time and potentially drew su
