Sample Sunday: the first page

Ok the first page of any book is pretty darn important. Hopefully there is a hook in there somewhere to keep the reader wanting more…since it is Sample Sunday, here is a sampling of page one of my novel The Second Chimney. Love to hear what you think! Thanks for reading!

He knew no one would call, no one would come over and worse still no one would remember but Lukas Simmons secretly loved his birthday anyway. He would go to Applebee's alone just like he had done for the majority of his...