Game was cancelled was voiced so loudly in our room that night that Dale had to threaten to award a demerit to the next cadet that opened his mouth; s...mething Dale had never done before. The grumbling continued but only in whispers, which we all ignored, not wanting a demerit assessed for such a trivial matter.Jarvis was the most vocal. The way I saw it he had a better than fifty-fifty chance of making the varsity team the next year. Smitty played on the defensive line but was probably resigned. ’ ‘Then why didn’t you say something?’ Buck was dancing on a thin line between truth and lies. ‘I hadn’t decided what to say or do. I wanted to talk to Kali about it, just on the off chance I could be wrong, but of course I wasn’t.’ He wanted her to believe he knew everything in the hopes she might share more information with him. ‘When we were swapping with Layla and Mitch, I was sure that if we got a divorce, it would be so we could marry them and, for Layla and me at least, that came fairly. Instead, I saw a small group of winos huddled in the doorway of the old, boarded up Carmine Theater across the street. Several letters still clung to the marquee. However, there weren’t enough to tell me what last played there. Memories lost by an old, run down, decrepit building. I smiled a little to myself, amused at the thought, ‘That poor building is just like me.’ Sixteen days of my life were missing. They had happened two years ago and I couldn’t remember a thing about them. The. ‘Whatever’s the matter?’ ‘Nothing!’ The snarl showed Peter could barely be civil. ‘Is it me?’ Peter could only shake his head. ‘Oh for Christ’s sake, why would anything you do affect me? No, of course not, you just have dates with any old person while I just don’t count. Whatever could be the matter with me?’ Unchecked, his anger rose unbidden to the surface. He knew he was being objectionable but he couldn’t help himself. Although his two fathers’ words about being a control freak echoed in.