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Camille:

Although I was extremely angry, I still had to tiptoe carefully into the bathroom. I had barely got in when Lucia came out of the kitchen with her food.

“Cam,” she called out to me. “Where have you been? I’ve been searching all over for you. I even called your name. I thought you went out.”

“Oh,” I said with a nervous laugh and prayed my voice wouldn’t betray me. “I was in the bathroom with my head…”

I almost mentioned my headphones when I remembered she had seen them in Daniel’s room. If I completed my sentence, she would know I had been in his room.

“…my head in this new book I was reading online. It’s so interesting. It’s about a girl who gets betrayed by her best friend and the man she loves but finds a man that’s like a hundred times better…” I was rambling, but it was better than nothing.

Lucia rolled her eyes, already bored of my story. At least, she believed me.

“Ugh. Isn’t that like the storyline of every erotica you read?” She asked, ushering me