Eighteen
Haven Haywood
I wasn’t certain how long we waited in the tunnels before Ashden made an appearance. It might even have been the whole night. But all I knew was that she appeared before us in a puff of purple smoke, looking shaken.
Ashden looked tired.
She was wearing different clothes though. Jeans and a yellow t-shirt with a girl on it that said Reading Is Sexy. I couldn’t remember ever seeing her in yellow, or in jeans for that matter. She also wore converse, and a gray hoodie, complete with a backpack over her shoulders.
Ashden coughed, waving away the magical, purple smoke cloud that had brought her there. She caught me looking. “What?”
“It…well…you look….”
She winced. “Please don’t tell me I look awful. Quincy insisted that running away in a skirt or a dress wou
