Aria

Jaicy dropped the shopping bags in the backseat. She slid into the passenger seat beside me and exhaled, her breath shaky, like she’d been holding what she wanted to say for a long time.

"Spill it immediately," I said

“I’m moving out,” she responded instantly and threw me a quick glance before fixing her eyes on the windshield.

“What?”

She didn’t look at me. “I need space. I need to give you space as well, and it's about time. Time. Just… to be by myself ...