ELY. We decided to go back to the office. I'll talk to Aithana. I just want to be away from everything and everyone. I'll go to Julia's house; I don't want to explain to my parents. My father will have a heart attack if he finds out. Ethan's concern shows me that I don't look very well, to say the least. We enter the building together and go directly to Aithana's office. I knock a couple of times before Aithana lets us in. "Ely, is something wrong?" Aithana asks, approaching the door, and Alany turns in her chair to see me. She also stands up worried while Aithana takes me with her to the living room. "What's going on?" She touches my shoulder. I felt Julia was about to speak, but I stopped her. I begin to recount in detail what happened that night, leading up to today's events at the

