267 Chapter 267

Aaron was quiet for so long part of me just wanted to get up and shout, "Hey! Can I go now?" But I waited patiently like a student in class who has heard the bell ring but knows it's not the bell that dismisses this class; it's the teacher.

"Okay," he finally said. And then he was on his feet. "I'm going back to the office."

"For what?" Cadence asked, and I knew I was dismissed. I looked at Brandon, and we both sort of looked at my room, like maybe we could melt and flow across the floor out of this conversation undetected.

"I need to look at the maps again," Aaron said to my sister who had crossed the room and was standing next to him at the door.

"You've been looking at them all day."