Chasing The Lies

Chapter 12

After hours of trying to find more leads I finally put down the papers in front of me and stuffed my face in to the pillow beside me. I was tired of trying to find clues to lead me to the person who framed me and frankly my head hurt. I grunted in to the pillow before throwing my head back up to find Asher and Spencer looking at me in concern.

"Stop looking at me like that." I mumbled grumpily.

Asher being Asher cracked a smirk at my grumpiness before coming over to sit beside me on the couch. He slung an arm lazily over my hunched frame before ruffling my hair fondly.

"Is someone grumpy?"

I practically growled at the baby voice Asher was using on me. I was not in the mood for him and his antics at the moment. All I wanted was to go upstairs and hide under the blankets.

"Oh come on, Kota. Don’t growl at me."

I rolled my eyes at his hurt tone and tried to break free from his hold on me. All I needed right now was a fight between Asher and Spencer.

"Let me go I want to go to sleep."

Asher automatically let go of me realizing his mistake. I slowly got up from the couch and made my way up stairs. I was about to start up the stairs when I heard Spencer calling my name. I made my way back to the Living Room grudgingly, silently cursing Spencer for keeping me from my sleep for a second longer.

"What do you want Spencer?"

"Can we talk for a minute?"

I cringed at his tone of voice. It sounded like he wanted to discuss something important. The kind of important like ‘I know you and Asher are a thing and I want to kill both of you’. I shuffled to the next room and got ready for the anger I had been expecting and deserved for so long.

"What is it, Spence?" I asked hesitantly.

Spencer was silent for a few moments before he faced me with a hard look on his face.

"Why was Asher touching you so freely like that in the Living Room?"

I internally sighed at his question because it meant he didn’t know me and Asher had something going on when I was dating Spencer. This question though meant he saw something between Asher and I and knew something was up. Not good at all.

I decided to play innocent and replied with,

"What do you mean?"

Spencer pulled in a deep breath before explaining.

"What I mean, Lakota, is why was Asher putting his arm around you and rubbing your arm?’

I kept up my innocent act and looked at him like I wasn’t understanding what he meant.

Spencer sighed in frustration and grabbed me by my shoulders looking me straight in the eyes.

"What I’m saying, Lakota, is is Asher bothering you or harassing you in any way you don’t like? I know how he is with girls and I just don’t want him being like that with you. I know we broke up and everything but I just want to make sure nothing is happening between you and my best friend."

I gulped at his question and tried to think through what I was going to say before I just blurted something out. Despite trying to reason with myself my mouth spurted out a lie before I even realized it.

"Of course Asher and I have nothing going on. I would never go towards that STD infested thing. I mean come on Spence."

Spencer laughed at my response and told me to go to sleep. I mentally slapped myself for lying to him. How could I keep doing this to him?