The house was quiet, and I was losing my mind. My mind was currently a blank slate, and I was bored enough to start counting the dust motes. I grabbed my keys, stepped outside, and immediately heard the faint, rhythmic clinking of metal hitting metal coming from the garage next door.
I wandered over, mostly out of spite for my own boredom. The door was cracked open, yellow light spilling onto the driveway. Leo was hunched over the engine bay of a truck, looking like he’d been fighting with it for hours. He didn't hear me until I cleared my throat.
He jumped, his wrench clattering loudly onto the concrete, sounding like a gunshot in the midnight air. "Jeez! You trying to kill me?" he hissed, glancing nervously toward the other houses. "Keep it down, unless you want the whole street at
