“Is that going to happen?” Mimi asked Brad.
Brad looked down at the table. “’Answer unclear, ask again later.’ That’s what this Magic 8-Ball I bought in a store once used to say.”
“Does that mean you don’t know?”
“I think it means I don’t want to know.”
“Don’t worry,” Bert said. “Kurt’s safe tonight.”
Alan stopped lacing up his shoes and slumped back on the bench in his foyer. Mimi had done the dishes, Bill had dried, and he’d fretted about Kurt. But it wasn’t until he couldn’t take it anymore and was ready to go and find him, bring him home if necessary, that Billy had come to talk to him.
“Do you know that for sure?”
“Yes. He has dinner with a woman, then he takes her dumpster diving and comes home and goes to bed. I can see that.”
“But you don’t see everything?”