Chapter Fifty-Four

“Dad?”

Sebastian looked up from his preparation of dinner. “What’s up, Jack?”

“Well, I was, um, wondering if maybe over spring break you could take Basil and me to the monster truck show?”

Sebastian chuckled and turned back to stirring the pasta. “Yeah, I don’t see why not. Do you know what day it’s on?”

Jaxsen smiled brightly. “Saturday. It’s an important day.”

“Yeah? What’s so important about it?”

Jaxsen’s smile brightened. “It’s his birthday. I want to make the day special for him.” Sebastian smiled and turned the fire down on his home-made sauce he was going to pour over the pasta. “He’s been sad the last few days. I wanna cheer him up.”

Sebastian frowned. “Why has he been upset?”