CCXXV

"Where are you going?" Kieran asked Arabella as she stood in the kitchen sipping from her juice. She was wearing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans.

"Eh?" she replied, turning to him as he entered the kitchen. It seemed like her plan had failed. Aurora had been tried and given a sentence of a year in a detention centre, seeing that she did not have a record of then. Arabella, however, felt that it was unfair to her and that she wanted to hear from Aurora why she would do that sort of thing. She was going to sneak out of the house and go see her. She did not want Kieran to know because she knew that he would kick against it.

"Where are you going?" he asked again, waving to the fridge to take a bottle of water.

"Out," she said with her voice coming out like a mouse.

"Out where?" he asks, taking off the cap of the bottle and gulping down the entire bottle. She looked at him and turned her back to him. The reason she wanted to sneak out was because she did not want to lie to him. Why did he