Sheckler My head was clouded with the thoughts of Chase and Alicia. It was for the first time in our friendship of 17 years that I felt Chase was hiding things from me. That day at school, Alicia's tormented face and Chase's tired one, gave me a lot of stress. Chase is a person, who wouldn't keep secrets from the people he trusted and according to my observation, he did trust Phyre. But when he didn't answer her question about their wellbeing, I knew he was in some deep s**t. But what shocked me more was that he was hiding it from me, too. In school, he kept dodging my questions, and when, I asked him about meeting after school, he said he had a project to complete. All this while I knew one thing and that was, that Chase would never lie to me, especially if its as serious as it loo

