Chapter 2Puttering around the house was only interesting for two days. TV was next, but I didn’t watch it back in California so it didn’t hold my interest for more than a couple hours before I gave up. Then came books, which was mildly better, but Dad’s tastes ran to disaster novels and Mom liked historical romances. I picked out one about hurricanes wiping out the world, but when I realized I was putting Sean in the place of everyone who was getting washed away, I traded it out for something with brawny men in kilts. No way I could confuse Sean for one of them.
The thing of it is, by the time I got to that point, I was wondering if I should call him. I’d deleted him from my phone when I got rid of so many from my contacts, but he’d had the same number for a decade. I wasn’t fooling mysel
