Chapter 24
The Friday before Father’s Day, Gavin leaves work with a trunk packed for the weekend. There’s an annual art show on the boardwalk in Virginia Beach that Brody will participate in, and Gavin plans to take Evie down to the shore to support him. Gavin isn’t all that into art, so he felt a little bad when Brody first told him about the show and he’d never heard of it before. But Brody hadn’t heard of it before now, either—the woman who owns the skate shop in Carytown where he’s been working lately has a friend who owns a sister shop in Virginia Beach, and she told Brody about the show. Normally he wouldn’t enter anything like that, particularly since the beach is a good two hours’ drive away, and the interstate is a nightmare on weekends. But the skate shop owner badgered Brody to
