Chapter 24

He’s an artist. Actually, if he ever didtry to pull off a new conservative look, he’d probably lose clients. Who’d believe a square guy could be hip? Or an average-looking dude in a button-down shirt with slicked-back hair knew anything about being edgy or street-smart?

And, like he told Gavin, no real decisions need to be made when it comes to deciding what to wear. Every piece of clothing he owns is black, even his underwear. It makes doing laundry easy, too. Everything in one load, cold wash, no worries about colors running or fading. He does have a few gray T-shirts, and one pair of tattered, paint-splattered blue jeans with holes in both knees and long white strings hanging from the hem. He’ll bring them out when he starts working on the skate shop walls, because he doesn’t like getting paint on his black cargo pants.