Chapter 4
Wren didn’t have as many friends as he thought. At least not when it came to friends who wouldn’t mind him sleeping on their couches for a week or three, just until, as Wren put it over and over, “I get back on my feet.”
Cody had a new boyfriend. “We’re just starting out, dude, and it would be kind of awkward, having you stay here, especially since the place is so small. Did you try Mark?”
Mark was moving back in with his parents in Arlington Heights at the end of the month because he found, after a few months, that he couldn’t afford Chicago city rents on a storefront theater publicist’s salary. Mark suggested he call Sheila.
But Sheila never answered his calls or responded to his texts. Wren figured Mark had warned her.
After calling half a dozen people he thought of as hi
