Wednesday, January 17th

The sun was high the next day when Patrick called Anthony.

"You need a ride where?" his friend asked.

"It's some huge house in the middle of nowhere. Michael's staying there." Patrick reeled off the directions. "Can you take me or not?"

"Yeah, I guess. I'm at Twila's now. Let me get done, then I'll be over, a'ight?"

"Cool. Just kinda hurry, huh? I gotta stop and pay the electric bill, and I don't wanna be out there after ...