Chapter 3
Callum arrived earlier than normal for the next game. He’d practically been a hermit the last two weeks. His friends thought him crazy, but Callum hadn’t been in the mood for the bar scene. He worried he could be building things up in his mind, though. For all he knew, Jeremy and he would have nothing in common.
But now that he’d broken through his own defenses, he wanted to pursue this idea of dating. He and Maddie had talked about it and she’d encouraged him to go for it.
He spent the first hour counting inventory, like paper and plastic cups, cardboard containers, and bags of peanuts, which drove him crazy. But it had to be done at the beginning and end of each shift. He’d never understood that, though. Why repeat it at the beginning when they’d already counted at the end o
