Love Stoned

Only True Beauty Left

I sit on the bed with my box I got from Caleb's room, my hands brushes the intricate details carved into it, the curves are of the winds flowing around the box. My finger catches on something on the back side of the box so I turn it around and find a swirl of the wind design making a circle on the middle of that side. I look at it more closely and it looks more like a button or something . I twist and turn first then push it in and hear a sudden click. A little drawer pops , out of the side. I pull it all the way out and find only a little piece of paper folded up in it. I open it and see James left me another secret note.

No more secret notes promise, but I need you to do something for me. I need you to go around and hand out the letters first then go to Elise and tell her these exact words "All we know is falling" . She will know what to do.

What the hell is up with all these secrets and shit? I fold the paper back up and push it back into the box. I take the neck lace with the key and get the letters. I shuffle through them to see who I am going to give these to. There is one for Elise, my mother, Cade, Ian and Kyle. Well I am not going to see Ian anytime soon so I put it back and take the rest. I go over to my mother's office first. I knock on the door and it quickly opens.

"Oh Ash I wasn't expecting you come in." She says sweetly. I go over and sit on the leather couch on the side of the room.

"Where you waiting for someone else?"

"No I just didn't think you would be here. Did you need help with something?"  I hand her the note from James.

"What's this?" She says while slowly opening in suspicion .

"I found it in a box full of James' things, he has letters for a couple people in the house and I figured since I am the only one who knows about them that I should give them out to everyone, and yours just happened to be first." She quickly looks up at me then speed reads through it. One of the brightest smile illuminates across her face.

"Thank you, it means a lot that you would give this to me even though you didn't have to. Look Ash I know I haven't been the greatest of mothers lately and I understand if you will hold it against me, I know I would too definitely with everything that has been going on, but I just want to do what is right for everyone in the house. I hope you know that I would never want to hurt you."

"I know that I should have know that before. " She gives me a quick hug.

"Well I'm going to go give everyone else there notes." I say as I stand up to leave.

"Alright just don't take to long we need to have a meeting to clear everything and set a plan it will be in an hour."

"Okay see you then." I say as I close the door behind me. I go down the halls and finally find Cade's room the door is open.

"Cade can I come in?"

"Yeah sure Ash what's up?" He says as he appears in from of me. I walk in, sit on his bed and hand him the note.

"It's from James he wrote one for some people and you where one of them." He doesn't answer me he just reads, the room turns dead silent until Cade lets out a slight chuckle from something in the note he read. I just sit there awkwardly. Cade finishes, folds the note back up and puts it in his pocket.

"Thanks, so who else got a note?"

"Well there is my.. I mean Aria, Elise, Kyle, Ian, and you." Again with the almost spilling about my mom God I am not good at keeping secrets James was right , I wouldn't be surprised if everyone knew about all of my secrets. Damn oh well it will come out sooner or later.

"Elise already told me, I know Aria is your mom, and I kind of told the rest of the guys too." He mentions full of guilt in his voice. Well that's a good thing that I don't have to do it myself.