“Even though you don’t know how to fix a bike?”

“I know how to bring sandwiches,” I said.

“Every team needs someone like that.”

PART 22

What We Said at the Table

That night, Brenda and Gavin came for dinner.

We ordered pizza, partly because it was easy and partly because the boys’ old messages about ordering pizza had become a joke none of us found funny yet.

We ate around the kitchen table where Brenda and I had spent the terrible night waiting for their return.