Phil was never late, and he never ignored my phone calls.Where is he?Lewis was here. He, Lili, and I put away the groceries, and he said that he and Phil had come back together, that he’d been heading back here when Lewis went to meet Lili.I called again, and this time, I heard his special ringtone for me, “Kashmir,” right outside the open bus door. Relief washed through me, and I nearly tripped to get to him.Except it wasn’t Phil.Devon was holding Phil’s phone. By the look on his face, he wasn’t amused.“Where’s Phil?” I asked, my voice hardly able to squeak out of my throat.“That’s a good question, Doc.”My heart…he felt sick. I felt nauseated as it dropped somewhere in my gut. The universe slipped off-kilter, tilting at a bizarre angle. I was in a parallel place where Technicolor could not be visualized.“What’s going on?” I asked Devon quietly.Devon held out Phil’s phone. “You’re the only one who has ‘Kashmir’ for a ringtone. What’s that all about?”Snatching the phone from his hand, I glared.
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