8 REECE“What’s for dinner, honey?” Hale asks, letting himself in to my place. I’m sitting in my favorite leather armchair in the living room with my feet propped up on the ottoman. Hale said he was stopping by tonight, but I didn’t know he’d expect dinner. “Scotch and M&Ms. Is that cool?” I say, popping another of the colorful candies into my mouth. I have no idea why I’d thought it was a good idea to buy so much candy last Halloween. A b**m club gets very few trick-o-treater’s it turns out. “Uh…” Hale hesitates, sinking onto the couch across from me. “Bad day?” “Something like that.” Macey moved in to her apartment today, and while I’d offered to help, she said between her brother, and Brielle, and Brielle’s friend Kirby, they had it covered. So I’d sat her and sulked like an asshole

