"Why do you sound so--" she stopped. "-- are you coming home?"
"Yeah--"
"I mean you don't need to of course. You're an adult. But we were wondering. We'll keep the lights on if you are planning to."
"I'll be home soon."
Will shut the phone off and stared at it. Waiting for Diego to contact him. But of course he wouldn't. Sometime tomorrow or the day after, when he was no longer actively waiting for Diego, he would get a message. An
email
maybe. That was how Diego would do it, Will thought. But it would be once he was out of this
dark forest
of
anxiety
. He knew this is how it would happen. Yet he couldn't resist thinking about it. Waiting for a reply. Diego where the fuck are you? he thought.
"I need to go back," Will told Allison. She nodded.
It sounded important. She'd heard about it. People who were into
tech
talking about
bitcoin
. But it was all over her head. Digital money. Didn't they have
credit cards
and online banking for that? Why would people want something like bitcoin? It was over her head and she never thought about it seriously until Will began panicking. Told her the gist of what was going on.
She didn't know how much of it was true. If it were all true, then she didn't know how much he was leaving out. One thing was certain to Allison. Will was desperate. He had said something to the tune of losing millions of dollars worth of
money
. But she still couldn't understand. Was bitcoin really worth anything?
If what Will said was true, then she was surprised. She figured he was making good money out West. But she would've never taken him for someone who could lose millions of dollars. He drove a boring, decently old car. She was surprised at his car actually. She figured he might be in a
Lexus
or at the least a
Subaru
. Weird she thought.