AERIS
I got home that afternoon to find Aveline already parked on the porch with my mother, the two of them deep in conversation that cut off the second my car pulled up, which was never a good sign with either of them, let alone both at once.
"There she is." Aveline stood, arms crossed, giving me a look that said this wasn't a social visit. "We need to talk."
"Do we?"
"Yeah. We do." She jerked her head toward the house. "Inside. Now."
My mother waved me off with a look that said *good luck with that one*, and I followed Aveline up to my room like I was walking myself into an interrogation, mostly because I was.
She shut the door behind us and rounded on me immediately. "Okay. What the hell is going on with you?"
"Nothing's going on."
"Bullshit." She dropped onto the edge of my be
