Chapter 34

Not everyone was allowed to sleep in the next morning. The three brothers were up by eight am, feeling as if a train had run them over. They were exhausted, and they had no recollection of the previous day’s events. All three of them woke up in house four, groaning at the aches in their bodies.

They got dressed silently and then headed out to the front lawn to clean up a mess they had no recollection of participating in. It took the boys three hours to clean up everything, fold up the chairs and take the tent down. By the time Joe emerged from the house everything was done, and the boys were sitting in the pavilion with their feet in the cold water of the pond below.

Joe looked around him, noting the difference immediately.

“You guys did this all by yourselves?” he asked as he walked to the pond.

Brian looked at his father with bloodshot eyes.

“Yeah. What happened yesterday?” he asked his father carefully.

“What do you mean? You were here!” his father replied.

“Doesn’t feel like it. T