Twice the Bang
“He blinked and reached for the center of the bed. Pansy was gone. So was Billy. He shook his head, wondering how the two coconspirators had managed to sneak out without waking him. He wasn’t a heavy sleeper.
But then again, he’d been dead tired the night before. They’d been moving in stages to the house they’d pooled their resources to buy—near Gus’s in the burbs. Three doors down to be exact. Just last Thursday at the Tavern, Aiden had asked to be informed if any houses on their block ever went up for sale. Mondo had joked that their block parties might get pretty interesting if they managed to sew up the entire street.
Everybody had pitched in the previous weekend following the Saturday football game to move Billy and then Beau into the new house. Last night, Beau and Billy had sat Pansy on one of her spindly kitchen chairs while they’d packed all her belongings into boxes. This morning, they’d load the U-haul. By nightfall, they’d all be living under the same roof.
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