"Fucking hell," Lucy breathed out, "so everything that we were noticing, was actually true?"
"Turns out to be so."
"They have a problem with Aiden, which means they have a problem with his family." Lucy noted. " We were able to deduce that the day he just disappeared from sight when your mother came to the college. He did not want her to see the two of you together because of this very reason."
"He knew," Leah sang the words like she was singing her favorite song, "apparently everyone you except you and I and no one bothered to tell us shit."
And nobody was letting on about anything. What kind of bad history was it? Was it a bad break up? Was it a bad marriage? a bad contract?
What exactly was it that had led to the point where they could not even have her contact Aiden?
It had to be very bad.
"What do you think about me asking my grandmother about this?"
"What?" The situation was quite abrupt. "What do you mean?"