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“Of course I like him. We’re friends.”
“That’s not what I mean. What I’m saying is that you two spend a lot of time together. Is there a reason for that?”
Titus turned to me as if caught in a lie.
“What reason do you need more than we’re friends? He’s a fun guy. I don’t have to tell you that.”
“I guess not.”
“So, what’s the deal with you and Kendall?”
I looked at Titus not having expected the question. It was clear why he had asked it, though. Titus was there on Sunday. It wasn’t like I was hiding the way I felt about Kendall.
“We’re friends and he’s a fun guy. You’ve met him. I don’t have to tell you that.”
Titus stared at me and then barked a laugh. He knew what I was saying. If he wasn’t going to be truthful with me about the way he felt about Lou, why should I share my feelings for Kendall?
“Right,” Titus conceded. “Don’t forget to text your brother back,” he reminded me before collecting his soup and leaving the room.
I took out my phone and typed, ‘Sure.’
‘Great. I’ll see you then,’ he immediately replied.
I still wasn’t sure about them getting a house, but I started to realize that there were other things I had to talk to him about. I had already put it off too long.
Picking up Quin after getting back from my away game, we made the two hour trek home. He and I were never that chatty when we drove together, but he was quieter than usual.
“Are you coming by our place or should I drop you at Dr. Sonya’s?” I asked breaking the silence.
“Cage said we should meet at your place. I wanted to say hi to your mom. We’ll head to Dr. Sonya’s later.”
I paused remembering something. “By the way, have you made any progress on that thing you were looking into?”
“You mean about who your and Cage’s father is?”
“Yeah.”
Cage had been kidnapped from the hospital as a baby and had spent his life living with the guy who snatched him thinking his mother had died in childbirth. But then Cage met Quin. In a few weeks, Quin had figured out, that the man who raised him wasn’t Cage’s biological father, which hospital Cage was born in, and had found us.
Quin was able to figure out the two of us were brothers based on nothing. The guy was super smart. And, since my mother never told me who my father is, who, it turns out, is also Cage’s father, I asked Quin to look into it. I knew he had been working on it, but he hadn’t given me an update in a while.
“What I’ve learned is that it probably isn’t anyone in town.”
“Seriously?”
“Yeah. Why? Did you suspect someone?”
“I thought so.”
“Well, I could be wrong. But I’ve been talking to your mother about it. She’s been doing a lot better lately. And she certainly isn’t willing to say much, but she gave me the impression that she moved to town after she got pregnant with you. I’m thinking that if it was someone in Snow Tip Falls, she would have been living here before she got pregnant with Cage.”
“So, you’re not basing it on any of your science-y stuff?”
“I can’t just ask every guy in town to take a paternity test.”
“Not every guy… And, you didn’t need a test to know I was Cage’s brother.”
“That’s different. You guys have the same rare genetic traits. Besides, I’ve been keeping my eyes open for that. So far your mother is the only one I’ve found who has them.”
