It was summer, in Phoenix, AZ. One of the worst types of summer. 200 degrees outside, and gasoline evaporated before you could get the cap back on your gasoline tank.
Where is Theo?
- Haven't seen him, why?
Oh. No reason. What are you up to?
- Just drain cleaning the shower and then going to Sarah's.
Ok, well, if you see Theo, let me know, ok?
- Sure.
Theo didn't realize it but things had gone sour between us. Not in the way things go between friends who are no longer friends, but the way things go between friends who become enemies. When we first went into business together he told me that there were only two things that were important to him:
1. Work hard
2. Be honest
Well, I suppose that's what was important to him in a cohort, not himself.
Fred called me later after drain cleaning the shower. He had found something. That and he said he saw Theo and that he was acting "weird". What could that mean? Actually, what could either of those things mean? Finding something while drain cleaning the shower? That's really strange. Theo acting "weird" didn't seem nearly as unexpected. Little did I know then, but both would be related on a level I'd never have imagined...
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