Silver Lining | excerpt

"Shhh," he says, glaring, "your parents are gonna wake up if you don't shut up." Mika sighs. It has become a sort of routine, by now- Asher coming into her room and Asher leaving her room. (She really needs to get a lock on that damn window.) Ari, Mika's sister, enters the room, yawning as she closes the door behind her, her almond-shaped growing large as she takes note of Asher's presence in her sister's room.

"Mika," whispers Ari, as if she's been looped into some sort of crime, "there's a boy in your room." Mika (and Asher) stay silent, afraid of the fact that if Ari tells her parents about the certain someone in her sister's bedroom, all hell will break loose.

Especially if Officer Roman, Mika's father, were to notice the large, white stain covering Mika's considerably wet bed.

This is going to be great, thinks Asher.