Chapter 316

You’ve Still Let Me Down

As Kylie got off of the couch, she slipped Stephen’s phone out of pocket, and then she went up to her room. Once she was alone, she opened it up and saw that the last call that he’d made had been to Lucas, and he’d still been on deck at the time. He had told her that he’d just gotten off the phone with his parents, but he’d lied. Of course, she didn’t like being lied to, but this lie was particularly disconcerting to her because it seemed to lack purpose.

Frowning, Kylie closed Stephen’s phone and picked up her own. She’d been playing Candy Crush lately when she was bored and alone, and so she played that for a little while. It wasn’t long before she grew bored of this, too, though, so she opened her Skype application. She found William’s Skype ID right away and added him as a friend. She hadn’t expected him to be on the line at that moment, but he was, and he accepted her request almost immediately – which made her smile nervously. For some reas