Chapter 24

• Quinton sat there while I ate and we talked about what I’d been seeing. I told him I was going to go to some of the clubs that night to see if I could find Alona, and he told me I shouldn’t go alone. I agreed with this, he didn’t say I couldn’t go though, so tonight I was going.
• When he decided to go get some sleep, I packed up the food that had been left for me and clipped my safety strap to the handle on my pack as I waited for the phone to charge. That’s what I was telling myself inside my head, that it had to finish charging. It was a small fib, because I was really trying to decide if I wanted to call Victor. He had said please, so it would be rude not to, and I needed to thank him for the food and my strap.
• I unplugged the phone when the charge reached one hundred percent and tucked the cord into my pack. Sitting on the bed holding the phone, I stared at it for a minute before I brought up Victor’s name and hit the green call button on the screen.