Chapter 41

**Elliott POV**

I was finally getting around to setting up Emma and Jade’s phones while I waited for the girls to get ready. Cameron had a talent for accidentally breaking his phones, so I knew how to get through the setup process pretty easily. I was waiting for everything to load through one of the steps when Jasper came to sit across the table from me. The bags under his eyes looked darker, like he hadn’t slept in days.

“Hey man?” I said as more of a question. He did not look good; I was starting to worry about him.

“Oh, hey,” Jasper said, looking up like I’d pulled him out of a deep train of thought.

“Get any sleep this afternoon?” I tried to ask casually. Jasper just shook his head. “Are you going to be okay to go to dinner and drinks? You can sit it out, Sebastian would understand if you had to turn in early.”

“No, I need to see him,” Jasper said definitively.

“Why?”

“Because I just need to.” He declared, and I dropped it. I was sure if it were important, he’d tell me. Besides,