Chapter 126

“Enough about me,” he said. “I’m sick and tired of me. Tell me about you. I hardly know anything about you.”

I looked back up at him. He was smiling again.

“Yeah, I guess we kind of skipped the chit chat, didn’t we?”

He laughed, back to his old self. “Yeah, we kind of did.”

“What do you want to know?”

“Who you are. What makes you tick.”

“That’s not exactly something I have figured out yet.”

“Alright, let’s start with basics. Parents? Siblings?”

“My mom and dad still live in Charlotte, North Carolina. That’s where I grew up. I have an older brother. He’s at a software company down in Florida.”

“What was your major in college?”

“Business, with a psych minor.” I winced. “This is… kind of weird.”

“Too much like a job interview,” he agreed. “Alright, tell me this: what did five-year-old Lily want to be when she grew up?”

“Oh, that’s easy – a ballerina.”

“Really.”

“And six-year-old Lily wanted to be a scientist.”

“Those are kind of opposite ends of the spectrum.”

“They are. But it gets bett