Chapter 9
Kyoko was gone after refusing a sendoff. “We’ve said our goodbyes.” The evening had been quiet. Neither teen had been in touch since before dinner. Milo had stayed at the house, mostly upstairs, and Tom Alan had wandered the town until he showed up with the cats around ten.
“They wouldn’t settle,” he said, standing just outside the door with a light drizzle falling, the carrier in hand with two squirming balls of fur inside. “I guess they’ve gotten used to sleeping here.”
“They can stay,” Erika said. “So can you. Come in.”
“I’m sorry.” Tom Alan apologized to Billy even before going up to Milo, before even closing the door. “You were right. I…I have no right to stick my nose into Kiki’s love life. We’re skating partners, she and I, and that’s where it should end.”
Erika wasn’
