maybe his phone had died.
I told myself that while I made dinner, while I ate it alone, while I washed up, and left his plate in the oven.
But when the sun went down, and his room was still empty, I could no longer ignore the feeling that something was wrong.
I called his phone. It went straight to voicemail.
I didn’t worry at first.
By ten o’clock, I was driving through the neighborhood, searching for him.
By midnight, I was sitting in a police station to report him