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Kieran did not know how to bring it up and Arabella sat there like a doll who was dressed to not say anything but look pretty. She had put in extra effort today and she did not know why. She had on a bit of mascara and eyeliner, she added powder as well.

These were the kinds of things she usually did not have in her to do but she had done it anyway. She thought Kieran on the other hand could not tell the difference because he had not said anything about it.

"Hmm," he cleared his throat making her glance at him. "I want to seek your opinion on something" he finally let out while she drilled holes into his head from her eyes.

"Oh," she said shifting in the seat. "What do you want to know?" she would take any opportunity to stripe herself of the deafening silence in the car.

"It's about mom, don't you think she is too strange?"

"Strange what do you mean by strange?" Arabella asked. Maybe she was not as attentive as she should have been but she did not notice anything out of the ordinary