Dan's Hauntastic Haunts Investigates by Alex Silver

Author:Alex Silver [Silver, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999531065
Published: 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

Chad

“What’s this about you being in Vermont?” Kay asked on our weekly phone call.

I was still riding high on the buzz of endorphins from the live chat the morning after my first livestream with Daniel. Not even my sister’s third degree could bring me down. I might have neglected to mention changing jobs on a whim and fleeing the state in our brief chat the previous week. To say she wanted answers was an understatement.

Chorus had me scheduled to work through last weekend so I’d cut short last week’s call without arousing Kay’s suspicions too much. My luck at keeping her in the dark ran out when I didn’t drop by to see her and the kids this weekend. I should have been free, and she knew it. I always spent my weekends off with her family.

“Didn’t I say in my email last night? I got a new job that requires travel,” I spoke softly so I wouldn’t wake Daniel. It wasn’t early, but he’d been up for ages last night. Not that I’d lain awake in my bunk for hours listening to him mumbling to himself as he edited our raw footage. Okay, so I had done that. Did that make me a creeper?

“I read your message. I’m just shocked that my baby brother—the prototypical stable boring career man—took a job working for a freelance vlogger. With no notice. And left the state to follow him.”

“It was a good offer, and I needed a new job,” I defended myself.

“Uh huh, and the fact that the vlogger in question is the guy you’ve been crushing on for years had nothing to do with your decision?” Kay asked.

She sounded amused rather than accusatory but I still felt defensive. I glanced toward the bunk where Daniel was still asleep. Then I ducked inside the shower stall for what little privacy it offered.

“I like his videos,” I hissed into the phone.

“Uh huh, and I read playgirl for the articles, Chad. I’m not judging you, bro. For serious, I’m glad you are doing someone—oops Freudian Slip—something that makes you happy for once in your life.”

I rolled my eyes at my sister, I needed to end the call before I gave myself eyestrain. There was no reasoning with Kay when she got her teeth into an idea, “So how are the rugrats?”

“Sadie’s grumpy that summer is almost over. Zoe is beside herself because she gets to go for a full day of school this year and ride the bus with Sadie. They both missed your cartoon date yesterday.”

“Tell the squirts I missed them too. I can’t believe I won’t be there to send them back to school this year. Next week we can video chat for our cartoon brunch.”

“I’ll tell them. And I’ll send you pics of their first day outfits. Now, stop trying to change the subject.”

“Who, me?”

“Yes, you. You can’t send me an email saying you’re uprooting your life for a hot guy and then leave me hanging. How am I am I supposed to relive my youth vicariously through you with no details?”

I snorted at that.

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