He played after school.
He played before dinner.
On weekends, I sometimes woke to the same three chords being practiced over and over until he finally got them right.
So when I walked into his room one evening carrying a basket of laundry and saw an empty guitar stand beside his desk, I noticed immediately.
The guitar was gone.
“Alejandro?” I called.
“Yeah, Mom?” he shouted from the kitchen.
“Where’s your guitar, son?”