Chapter 13Sunday Afternoon, December 3
They left early Sunday morning and were at LaGuardia by mid-day. Colin sat on his pillow, and Sean and Ian teased him all the way home.
The party separated when Pierre, Luc, and Giles picked them up at the airport, and Michelle had a brisket with onions, mashed potatoes and onion gravy ready for them when they got home. Colin’s stomach was empty. He was not used to his new metabolism. Marc encouraged him to eat the sandwiches provided on the plane, but he thought he was eating too much—higher metabolism or not. Sean and Ian warned him that the effect was permanent, but Colin was stubborn and didn’t listen. By the time they got to the apartment, Colin could have eaten the whole brisket by himself.
“You should have taken the sandwiches on the plane,”
