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Kie kept twisting her pen between her fingers before finally leaning over the aisle toward Pope. “JJ text you? He was talking about maybe skipping.”
“In what universe does he tell me before he skips?” Pope muttered. “His dad probably dragged him to work. Or on the water.”
“Yeah, free child labor.”
“Maybe he’s just hungover,” John B said, thumbing his phone under the desk. No new notifications. The last thing in the thread was a picture from two nights ago: a raccoon standing in a tipped trash can behind some beat-up building, eyes glowing in the flash.
JJ had slapped a caption under it: “me clockin in at Mal’s”
He stared until the screen dimmed. The raccoon kept looking back at him like it was in on the joke. If that was the last thing from JJ, it sucked.
“He’ll show,” he said to the notebook.
By third, JJ’s chair was still empty.
_______When Luke gets out of county, JJ comes back bloodied, raw, and halfway into the next bad idea.
John B knows enough to worry, not enough to fix it, and keeps trying to tell himself this is normal JJ bullshit and not something worse.
It is something worse.Series
- Part 15 of Half-Truths