“Mom,” I say when she picks up her phone.

“Charlie? What’s wrong?” Mom’s voice comes through the phone sounding very worried. The worry is not unjustified.

“Can you come home? Max had a lot to tell me.” I admit and I hear her suck in a gasp.

“Charlie, I told you not to confront him without me,” Mom scolds me but I hear her quickly packing up over the phone.

“I know, and I wasn’t going to but he pulled me ...