Chapter 3Laurie groaned as he slowly came awake. The sun streamed through the space where the curtains didn’t quite meet, and the beams stabbed relentlessly into his eyes. He rolled over in an attempt to escape the bright light and groaned again as pain pierced his brain and dug into his hip as well. Ugh. He’d gone to bed without undressing, and between his phone and his wallet, he was going to be a mass of bruises.
His bedroom was hot and humid, and sweat-soaked clothes were tangled around his lower body. Why did it feel like a sauna? His mom was going through the change, although Laurie wasn’t supposed to know anything about it, but how could he not, when every time he came over she tended to have the A/C cranked up so high it felt like they were living in the Arctic.
What time was it
