You Only Get So Much by Dan Kolbet

Author:Dan Kolbet
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Alfe Publishing
Published: 2014-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

When you look back on your life, there are probably one or two moments that really changed everything. Maybe it was the day you decided to go on that blind date and met the person of your dreams. Or it could have been the day you found out you had cancer and found the strength to fight it. It all started somewhere. A conversation with a friend. A routine doctor's appointment. Things so innocuous you wouldn't have given them a second thought until one day you look back and say that was the day that everything changed.

That's today for me.

* * *

It's just a week after the funeral and I'm sound asleep. Unaware of how groggy my head is and how my eyes feel like sandpaper scratching the underside of my eyelids with every blink. I say unaware because no reasonable person would decide to crawl out of bed and answer their cell phone in this condition. But for some reason I do after two rounds of ringing. I am responsible for more than just myself now. Maybe that's why. Gracie, Kendall, Mom—heck, even Michelle. Just because I stayed awake until 3:45 in the morning writing in my new leather-bound journals, doesn't give me the excuse to not answer the phone on this cold January morning.

So, I drag myself out of bed and answer.

"Hello?" I mumble after slapping the phone to my cheek.

"Is this Billy Redmond?" The voice on the other end of the line says. He's nervous. The voice of someone trying to sell you a warranty for a product that should never need one.

"Yes," I answer, hoping to end the call with a simple no thanks, I'm not buying line.

"I've got something to tell you, but are you OK? You sound like hell warmed over," the man says.

"It's just early," I say.

"It's 11:30 a.m., Billy."

"Oh."

I rub the sandpaper out of my eyes and glance outside. It's snowing, but sure enough, it's nearly mid-day.

"Did I wake you?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, you did," I say. "And I'm not buying what you're selling."

"I'm not selling anything, Billy. I just need to talk to you."

"About what?" I ask.

"That's the thing. It's not real easy to talk about," he says.

"Well, then I think we're done here. Have a good—"

"Wait, Billy. Don't hang up. I won't be able to make this call again."

"What?"

"It's about your wife, Billy," he says.

"You almost had me there, pal," I say. "But I'm not married."

"No. Jane. That's not what I meant. It's about Jane."

"What about her?" I ask, now as awake as I could possibly be.

"Can you meet me?" he asks.

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