“Ashley it’s for her own good,” John exited the basement door.

“What’d you do?”

“Put her in the padded room,” he plopped down on the arm rest of Max’s chair, “She’s real upset,” he spoke after a while as he thought of the loud screams echoing from inside the room which faded the closer he got upstairs and at the top of the stairs the sound stopped altogether, “I didn’t know a girl that small could have that big of a temper especially sweet and innocent Spencer.”

“People are capable of lots of things,” Max reminded him with a kiss on the cheek.

“Yeah remember Harold,”

“The AV geek?” Lucy asked trying to place the name.

“That’s him, went all murder/suicide on us because he couldn’t handle the gang fights any more.”

“Didn’t he kill the English teacher Mrs. Harrison?” I asked.

“Yep, at least she was part of the Cryptic’s and not one of ours,”

“Like that makes it better,” Lucy rolled her eyes, “We fight on the battle field not at school or anywhere else.”

“She’s right, we can’t let people know what’s really going on, they can’t handle it.” I stated as the tears subsided, my heart broke when she’d yelled at me, all the breath inside swept away leaving me lightheaded with a hole where my heart should have been.

“Everything will work out Ash,” Max smiled, “She’ll calm down…”

“She has every right to be mad,”

“Yes she does,” John agreed, “But she had no right to say what she did.”

“We’ll just leave her down there for a while, until then let’s try and save this day from being a total bummer.” Lucy suggested. Nodding we decided to make it a movie night with pizza and soda.

John and Lucy headed for the movie store while Max ordered our food and I got the surround sound set up. By the time the other two got back it was almost seven, the phone went off as Max and John went to the kitchen for cups and Lucy was out side for a cigarette break.

“Carlin Residence,” I answered professionally.

“Davies put Carlin on the phone,” Madison…damn what do I say…