Darlene received a call in the early morning, and it was Avery.
She was sitting on the bed in the bedroom. After searching around outside for a while, she had become completely exhausted and had to come back to take a short break and catch her breath.
Marcel occupied the master bedroom, so she could only stay in the second bedroom. She sat on the bed, and Gustave sat on the couch.
There was a dead silence in the bedroom, and neither of them spoke.
What broke the silence was the abrupt phone ring in the early morning.
It was Avery who called, so Darlene certainly wouldn't answer.
She had blocked Avery's number a long time ago, but he kept changing his number over and over again. There were always one or two lucky numbers that managed to evade being blocked by Darlene before she had a chance to do so.