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“That’s not my problem nor yours,” he said calmly.
There were times he wanted to light into her, but what good would it do? Maybe that was why his father never did it either. Just calmly listened and then walked away.
“It’s just like Zach to give frivolous things like that rather than help Blaze with school.”
He wasn’t going to get into the middle of something that had nothing to do with him. “Not my problem,” he repeated. “I’m glad he felt comfortable enough to call me. He’s here and he’s fine. I’ll find a way to get him back to the airport to get to school, but it might not be until Monday. I don’t know.”
“He probably missed an exam going to that game.”
“Did you ask him that?” he asked.
“I did and he said he didn’t.”
“There you go,” he said.
“I’m sure he’s lying to me,” his mother said. “Just like his father did.”
“That’s between the two of you,” he said. “I’m not going to be your verbal punching bag.”
“You know,” his mother snarled, “your father used to say the same damn thing. Sounds like you’re turning into him.”
“That’s the best compliment you could have given me,” he said and hung up on her, then took two deep breaths before he faced Sage.
“Do I want to know?” Sage asked.
“Nope,” he said. “I’m surprised you didn’t hear the screaming across the room.” No reason to air out his drama.
“I heard her voice but not the words.”
“She’s pissed,” Blaze said, coming into the room. His hair was wet and combed, but he was back in the sweats.
“I told her that is between you two.”
“She thinks I missed an exam and doesn’t believe me that I didn’t,” Blaze said. “I took my final one Wednesday night. The last day of exams was Thursday, but I didn’t have one. I told her the last day of finals was Friday because I didn’t want to leave until Saturday. That’s my penance for fibbing on that.”
“Because you were going to Boston?” he asked.
“Yes. It’s not a big deal. I could have stayed in my dorms as long as I wanted. It’s not her business.”
“I don’t want to get in the middle of it,” he said. “But if you want to talk, you know you can.”
“She’s got this guy she’s seeing. I met him before I left, but he’s living there now. He’s a dick. I don’t want to stay there any longer than I have to. I was going home until Christmas and then my father is having me fly to Texas with him.”
Which would piss his mother off even more.
But he hated that Blaze felt like he couldn’t go home or wasn’t comfortable there.
It was like a repeat of what he went through.
The guys in his mother’s life were always more important than her kids.
“I don’t want to get you in trouble,” he said. “But you can stay here any time you want. Or as long as you want.”
“If I’d known that I would have packed more clothes, but I didn’t realize this would happen.”
“Don’t you follow the weather of places you are traveling to?” Sage asked.
“I did, but a few days before the game the storm wasn’t going to hit until Saturday. I hadn’t realized that it was pushed up.”
