#Chapter 242 – In on the Secret

“Ariel,” Rafe sighs, slumping down in his chair and covering his face with his hand, shaking his head. “Seriously? Do you always have to be so dramatic?” “What!” I protest, turning to stare at him. “We agreed we were going to tell him! What’s the big deal?” Rafe sighs. “The big deal is –“ “Wait, you’re…you’re Ariel?” Tony says, drawing my attention back to him as he stares at me with wide eyes. “Not…Ari?” “Yeah,” I say, taking off my hat and letting him see the braid of rose-gold hair arching over my head which tends to be the nail in the coffin of people’s doubt. “I’m sorry we didn’t tell you – but we didn’t tell anyone who didn’t need to know! And this semester we all agreed to let you in on the secret, because I thought you deserved to not be the only one in the classroom who didn’t know.” “Um, we did not all agree,” Jesse says, and when I turn to look at him I laugh a little to see him pointing vehemently at himself. “To some of us this is a surprise.” “Oh, you don’t ca