The look on their shocked faces is priceless as I wait for their reply.

"Hear what?" I repeat more threateningly.

"I-... uhm... well-... we was uhm... talking about how awesome Zeus is!" Asher stutters.

"You expect me to believe that?!" I raise my voice.

"Just tell her," Kaitlen starts, "before you dig yourself deeper in a hole."

"Uh well..." he starts again, "ok fine. I knew about the murder before it was reported and I knew about the safe house, I just didn't know it was at the abandoned house. I knew Jordan because I helped him work for the Dark Blade, I still don't know who that Dark Blade is, but I was threatened into giving them some of the things they needed. I swear that's all I know, I didn't mean to get caught up in all of this, please forgive me. I can't stand to be away from you, I'm terribly in love with you, even if you don't feel the same. I understand if you don't want to ever talk to me again, but please, please, forgive me." He confesses with red eyes.

I stand there in shock for a while before I find my voice again, "How did Kaitlen know about it?" I don't want to know the answer, but I have to.

"She found out accidentally. I was working on some coverup stuff in the office one day when she came in. I'm sorry, but I couldn't tell you out of fear." He looks genuinely sorry, but how can I ever trust him after this?

"I uhm.. I'm going to go for a walk with Zeus. I need time to think." I reply solemnly before heading out the door.

Asher's POV

"That was a good coverup, but you still need to tell her the truth." Kaitlen says, once we are sure she is gone.

"It was partly true... but I can't tell her everything, it would ruin us." I don't want to hurt her, that's why I can't tell her. I love her.

"Also, where is she going?" I inquire, changing the subject.

"Going to see her dad." She reply's sadly.

"Oh does he live in Dead River?" I want to meet him, maybe I already have? I never know anything about her, no one does.

"He died when she was 5." Her face tells a story.

"Oh... I'm sorry," I don't know what to say, "how did you find out?" Emma never tells anyone anything.

"I followed her one day to see where she always goes, but then I found out it was so personal as she was crying, so I went over to her to help console her. After that she told me everything, well almost." She says, her eyes starting to tear up.

"Oh... wow... uhm... what else do you know?" I know it's a sensitive subject but I need to know.

"She lived in Riverdale with her parents until her mother left her when she was 3 years old and her dad died when she was 5. After that she lived with her Aunt in Dead River till she moved back to Riverdale when Emma was 14, leaving her this massive house and a lifetime worth of pain. She has nightmares every night, except last night, when you stayed with her. Don't tell her I said anything though ok? I don't know if she wants you to know or not." You can see the pain in her eyes as she talks.

"So she has taken care of herself since she was 14? When did you move in with her?" I feel like I need to know.

"Yeah, I moved in with her when I was 17." She says.

"So she lived by herself and looked after herself for 3 years?" I can't believe that she never told anyone this.

"Yeah." She says sadly.

"What does she have nightmares about? Has she told you?" I ask. I know I am being nosey but I need to know more about her.

"No. She's never told anyone that." I says slowly, "She screams and cries, it always wakes me up, then I have to go wake her up and hold her till she stops shaking." She looks like she may cry just thinking about it.

This is so much information to process. I walk up to her room and lay on her bed, cuddling her pillow.

...

Emma's POV

I don't know what to think of all this-... this...

"Ugh!" I yell into the cool air, "Why? What did I do to deserve this? I just get one bombshell put on me, before another smothers me in the face!" I'm starting to cry and I haven't even got to the cemetery yet.

I decide to sit down in the sidewalk for a little while. While I cry into Zeus short fur, my subconscious decides now is a good time to talk to me 'it may not be as bad as you think' oh shut up! I really want to slap her for absolutely no reason. I decide to get up and cut through the bush to the cemetery. As I walk through the overgrown bush I bash every tree, punching the trunks and snapping the branches. Zeus is starting to get worried at my level of anger. Anger that is directed towards the world as a whole.

I finally arrive in the clearing, my knuckles busted and bloody as I can walk through the gloomy, overgrown cemetery. I walk over to the tomb stone with my fathers name on it, it is so simple that it makes me cringe. My father was always a simple man but I still can't wait till I can buy him a new one, an expensive one, one like he deserves.

I have so much to tell him, so much he needs to know, so much I need to get off my chest. Like the homicide, that one is way too close to home, my boyfriend being apart of it? I don't know where to start.

"Hey dad, I've missed you heaps, I can't believe it's been 12 years today. I have so much to tell you, I don't know where to start, so I'll start at the beginning..."