CLEO’S POV Ash: Let’s go somewhere together then. Ash: I’ll come pick you up. I stared at the message on my phone and blinked. Over and over again until I was sure I wasn’t dreaming or seeing things. It was supposed to be a free day for me. No school and in the long run, no Ash. So why was he suddenly interrupting that plan of mine? And with what? An invitation to go somewhere with him? Go where with him? I was doing my very best to avoid being in the same space between him and he wanted us to go somwhere together? Just us? I swallowed and stared at the message for the dozenth. He couldn’t possibly be expecting a reply from me, right? Was I really supposed to reply him? Perhaps say yes to whatever strange plans he had in mind? Feeling shivers run down my spine, I shook my head. No,

