Coldmess

The Four Horsemen

{Asher's Pov}

It's been three days since I met Cason last, no texts and no calls from him. Finally I texted him a 'Hey, how are you?' to which only a 'Fine.' came as an answer. One of my other bestfriends from school called up. He is a common friend between me and Cason like Josephine so I'm hoping to ask him if he knows what's wrong with Cason.

I pulled up my grey hoodie,adjusting my white tracks so they weren't clumped near my ankles much. After my meet with Cason, neither of us had bothered to wear proper outgoing clothes, so I didn't mind meeting Daniel in my flip flops. He was a closer friend to me than Cason was and still is. Daniel Waters was the rich kid of the school, he'd been an nerd back then but now he was a jock, the intelligent kinda one, like Cason. To say he was handsome would be an understatement, Daniel had changed his personality from a chubby/healthy person to a hot muscular model's. But still I'd never really like him the way I liked Cason. Satisfied by my reflection in the mirror, I left my home telling mom I'd be with Daniel.

We met at our regular meeting place near the skyscraper around the fountain.
"Hey bro, what's new?"
"Nothing much, just wanted to hang out like we usually do, to be honest I'm kinda bored of being with bimbos and the whole jock sterotype." he said tiredly pointing at his muscles.

"You're fault Daniel, I never asked you to flip sides" I said chuckling.

"Hmm so what's new?"
I so wanted to tell him about Cason but I didn't, coming out was a hard thing and my shy and awkward personality didn't help much.

"Umm nothing much...by the way, any idea about Cason, like what he's upto or something?" I facepalmed in my head as I realised I'd asked about Cason very 'unsubtly', my idiot brain could not control itself.

"Umm nothing much, still the same jock, single and pretty much the same" he said dryly. Back when we were together in school, Cason would kinda seem like a bully towards Daniel but they were still friends.
"Why though, I mean aren't you his 'bestfriend'; you can ask him what's he upto yourself"  he said with a poker face.

"Yeah right." I said with a weak fake laugh. I and Daniel chatted for hours before my mom called as it was getting late. Throughout our conversation I'd managed to slip in Cason a couple of times, quite unintentionally. I couldn't help that Cason was in my mind and even if I and Daniel chatted about something else, Cason was still there in the back of my mind which was starting to bug me now.

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When I returned home, I was met with 5 conspiring faces, I heard through the back door as I entered
"How bout chocolate, it's edible and his favourite."
"I was gonna say fruits"
"No way Joe, it's for him not you.."My curiosity got the better of me as I barged in the kitchen from where I heard the voices. Sure enough my mom dad had similarly suprised faces like the three munchkins, currently munching on my stash of chocolates.

"Hey Asher, ssup?"said the comedian of our group, his face red with hyperventilation. "Cut it off Doris, what were you guys talking about?" I asked pointedly looking each of the guilty culprits (they were eating my chocolates!!!) straight in the eyes.

"Nothing....we were... We were planning about Halloween..."Faith said." Oh, then even I should join in" I said, ofcourse I didn't believe her but I was tired and decided to play along."But isn't Halloween not there for like two months" I said taking a bite of the custard pie Ivara had brought.

"Yeah but we thought planning it now would be better than hurrying at the last moment like you usually do" my mother replied in nonchalant tone but her eyes clearly showing pointedness towards her sarcasm. I gave her a scowl and asked "So what did you decide, I heard chocolates and fruits so what are we dressing as?"