The next day, Grayson received a text from Carton, his best friend. It simply read, Party! Tonight! Be there!

Grayson shook his head. He hadn’t heard from Carlton for a while and he texts this out of the blue. Grayson smiled as he dialed the number.

“Yo!” Carlton answered on the first ring. “What happened? You fall off the face of the earth or something?”

“Yeah, I was just about to ask you the same thing.” Despite that fact that he could be a jerk at times, he ...