CHAPTER SEVEN
Cleo decided she had other things to do and left Calvin to his own explorations. When Calvin’s growling stomach forced him to finally leave the room, he found a single ham and cheese sandwich wrapped in wax paper beside a can of chilled coke set out for him on the dining room table. Cleo had already taken her portion and left. Through the large windows, bright green grass waved like one huge banner that beckoned him to plow through it to the trees beyond. He’d hardly taken two steps into the tall stalks when a flash of color moved in the forest.
Natalie.
He smiled at the perfect coincidence. Weren’t chance meetings like this called synchronicity? When time synchronized to make sure something awesome happened?
She didn’t wave to him this time. Natalie just walked out of th
