Chapter 3Bart stood talking to his next-door neighbor on the landing separating their upstairs apartments Wednesday evening as he waited for Evan to call him. He expected Evan to call him and cancel. He wasn’t sure, exactly, but part of him even hoped he would. It wasn’t that he didn’t like Evan. He definitely did. But, well, things were complicated enough in his life.
They’d lived at the apartment ever since Bart’s mother had died of cancer, several years ago now, and they’d lost their house due to Ronnie’s drinking. The neighbor across the landing from them, Pam, had lived there nearly as long as they had. She had an adult daughter living with her and that daughter had a son.
“Your sister go off again?” Pam asked him, blowing smoke from her cigarette away from him. She leaned against h
