Tuesday evening

Alec closes the door to his room and leans back against it. He's always heard about how your life can turn upside-down in a blink of an eye. He never thought it could actually happen to him. Even when Romilda died, the basics were the same.

But now...

He sits down on his bed. Maybe Mom and Dad just had a bad fight. Mom could have misunderstood. Nothing makes sense.

(Except it all totally makes sense and he just doesn't want it to.)

He picks up his phone and calls Ginny.