Chapter 2
Jae retrieved his repaired bike that evening. Ken gave him the contact information for the Pride Riders’ event coordinator, Tori, who could fill him in on their plans. Afterward Amir went through cycles of forgetting who Jae was and then remembering he was coming on the trip to the Cape, which led to a few minutes of renewed annoyance with Ken, curiosity, and finally being distracted by something more important that drove Jae from his mind again. However, as the appointed date came closer, Amir recalled him with decreasing frequency. Each time he thought less and less of it until the day before it was simply, “Oh, right, that’s happening.”
The day it did happen was a fine day. Storms were predicted to arrive a few days after, but the weather had been clear enough that the trail
