Chapter 18 . Shortcake

 Ethan POV "Ethan? Earth to Ethan! Hellllooo??" A tan hand suddenly drops in front of my line of vision, waving up and down right next to my face. I reel back with a gruff sound. "What?!" I snap out, I watch Asher's face perk up in a large grin at the reaction he got out of me. "Wow, I was just going to ask if you wanted your muffin. Jeez." He chuckles, looking to Howard and his older brother before turning back to me, "You were gone man, lost in outer space. What's up with you?" "You can have it, I don't care." Is my reply, I look down at the table, ignoring his other question while I play with the scrambled eggs on my plate. I am not in the mood to talk about Kelly... well... I never am. I haven't seen her at all for the past week, and I am getting sick with worry. My reasoning is automatically to assume she was fine, and that I'm just being stupid. Paranoid. But, I feel like there has to be so