“What?!.” Ashley exclaimed. Her eyebrows and eyelids were pulled up. Her mouth hung open as she stared at me in disbelief. She looked like I had just told her I have five children that were living somewhere in México, hidden from the world. “Please tell me it’s a joke Ayva.” Her pupils were dilated as she watched me, desperately waiting for me to reply with the answer she wants to hear.
I shook my head. “I wish I could say that.” I closed my legs together and pulled my knees to my chest. Wrapping my arms around my legs, I rested my left cheek on my knees.
Ashley looked at me like I was some alien from Mars. Neither of us said anything and the house would have been dead silent if the television wasn’t serving as background noise. I don’t even know what the show that was showing was abou
