Asher and Ares let me stay in one if their many guest bedrooms. I had fed Ares a bullshit story about how I had gotten into a fight with my parents over something for school. It had gotten me a dubious look but Asher dragged me away to show me my temporary room before he could question the makeshift lie. I skipped school the next day, since that was inevitably where Bruce would look for me. Another tick on my ever growing absent sheet. Since I was skipping school, Asher had decided to as well. I doubted it was to keep me company though. He probably wanted to ask what had happened since I had gotten out of telling him the night before my feigning tiredness. Except before he could ask me anything , Ian had showed up. Why? I had no idea. Asher had simply scowled, shoved him out of the fron

