BASH

My mouth gapes.

Someone taps my shoulder before I can answer Kyland.

I glance over my shoulder.

"Xandry!" I stand up from my stool, giving Xandry a brotherly hug with a clap on his shoulder. Xandry is uncle Phoenix and Aunt Sam's son. He's a few months older than me and works at his dad's family business.

"You came alone?" he asks, sitting on the empty stool beside me. He leans his left elbow on the bar counter while his blue eyes scan the crowded full of ...