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“I have,” he said. “But nothing like this. I’m from Georgia and going to school in Virginia. We get snow once in a while but nothing that lasts.”
“Maybe you can go make a snowman and get one hell of a selfie with it,” she said laughing. “Eggs and toast or Frosted Flakes? How about both?”
“Knox has Frosted Flakes?” Blaze asked. His face was lit up so much she couldn’t help but laugh.
“He said he got them for you,” she said, grinning.
“I haven’t had that since I was a teen,” Blaze said. He was rubbing his hands together.
She went and got two bowls down and the cereal with the milk. “Here you go. I’ll make eggs and toast too.”
“At least we still have power,” Mark said.
“The generator,” she corrected. “The power went out over an hour ago.”
“What a weekend adventure,” Mark said. “This is cool.”
“It is,” Blaze said. “Though I’m sure it’d be better staying here in the summer.”
It was the wistfulness in the younger man’s voice that she’d pass onto Knox. Just because Knox couldn’t get the relationship he wanted with his father didn’t mean he might not be able to have one with his brother.
23
SUCH AN ADULT
“Blaze has been in his room for a while,” Knox said over an hour later. “Do you think he’s fine?”
“You’ll find out when he comes out. Maybe he’s not on the phone and just in the shower.”
He noticed when he came in from cleaning off the patio that neither his brother nor Mark had showered.
They both had his old clothes on, their hair all over the place, and were filling their faces with breakfast that his girlfriend had made.
He had to admit that it was nice with the two of them eating together and then talking about things to do around the house.
Stupid on his part, but it’s not like his parents ever had conversations like that that he could remember.
His entire life he’d dreamed of what it’d be like to witness a normal relationship. Maybe even partake in one.
It seemed one fell into his lap and he was going to try his hardest not to damage it any.
“Could be,” he said.
But when his phone started to ring, he picked it up and saw it was his mother calling.
He showed it to Sage and she shrugged.
“Hello,” he said.
“How dare you go and get Blaze and not tell me what is going on?”
Knox let out a sigh. “First off, I don’t report to you. Second of all, he’s an adult and if he wanted you to know, he would have told you.”
“He should have called me and not you,” his mother said.
“Were you going to drive from Virginia and get him?” he asked. “I can tell you right now it wouldn’t have worked out well. I was there and back in less than four hours and that was me not even going near Boston. He’s here and he’s safe.”
“He shouldn’t have been in Boston at all,” his mother all but screeched into the phone. “I told him that. His father had no business paying for that flight and letting him go.”
