Chapter 20 - Caleb

Fati left with her parents to head to college today. I haven’t seen her in week. Hadn’t talked to her for weeks before that. It’s been less than a month, but it feels like forever.

And now she’s gone. There’s nothing that I can do about it.

I’m sitting in my apartment, mindlessly flipping through the channels on the TV that I rarely use. I rarely have the time to watch TV, but now I can’t seem to muster enough energy to do anything else.

Suddenly, there’s a knock at the door and I can scent my two best friends.

“Go away!” I call out from the couch, knowing that they’ll be able to hear me.

“No chance!” Ethan calls back. “You’re not wallowing tonight. We’re going out!”

“Fuck that shit!” I call back, but I still push myself up and off the couch. I walk over to the door and unlock it, not even bothering to open the door before I turn back to the couch.

They both walk in, Finnegan huffing out a lau