##Chapter 84: Cole

Book Two: Don't Leave

"Someone's at the door, can you please answer it?" Mom yells from the kitchen where she's baking Christmas cookies.

Already.

That's not a complaint.

It means I'll have more food to take back to school when I leave tomorrow afternoon. I pause, unable to rip my attention away from the big screen TV as the final seconds of the first quarter play out. The bell rings for a second time as the ball is being passed ...