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straw. She’d lied about lots of things he was pretty sure but lying about this one thing, meant that she could have told him about the baby and she hadn’t. She’d chosen for him to not find out about the baby at all. He was sure she would have made up some crack pot reason in her head why that was ok but it wasn’t and he was going to show her EXACTLY what he thought about lies. They were also going to have a chat about not paying bills.
    He found the trash bag and made good use of it before snatching up his keys and leaving for the supermarket. Things around here were going to change, starting with dinner.
     
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    Skye opened her eyes and sniffed. It wasn’t a smell she was used to here. It was almost like being at home, her parents’ home. She loved opening her eyes after an afternoon nap to the smell of home cooking. It’d been a while since she visited them, she thought guiltily. Sooner or later she was going to have to deal with that. It’d just seemed at first, easier somehow to leave it, not say anything. Now she’d left it so long she couldn’t really tell them. What would she say? Hi Mom guess what? You’re going to be a grandmother, in about three months, forgot to mention it. Yeah. No, wasn’t going to happen.
    Her tummy grumbled loudly. She wished she was eating whatever her neighbours were eating. Oh well, time to call for a pizza or some Chinese food. She couldn’t be bothered going out to a drive thru though.
    She padded out into her living room and stopped. It was tidy and clean and she realized now that the delicious smell was coming from her own kitchen.
    The gifts from school had all been neatly stacked by the sofa. The small table had been set for dinner, for two. Uh oh, she thought. He’s still here. She walked into the kitchen to find Shaun merrily stirring a pot.
    “You’re still here,” she said quietly. “Thanks for cleaning up. I know it was a bit of a mess. I’ve been tired.”
    “I told you I wasn’t going anywhere before we talked and I meant it. As for the cleaning? I wanted to help. You don’t have to explain the mess to me. This is your place. You’ve had a lot to deal with. Alone.”
    “Yeah,” she said.
    “Of course you could have rung me and told me and then you wouldn’t have been alone,” he said still stirring the pot.
    There was something in his expression that made her tummy flutter, and it wasn’t the baby moving. “I couldn’t, I told you, I didn’t have the number.” She saw him delving in his pocket and she gasped as he held a scrap of paper in the air to silence her.
    “Wow! I thought I lost that,” she tried.
    “Really,” he said.
    She couldn’t meet his eyes and she knew he knew that she’d lied. She could see it in his eyes. “I, it was a holiday thing. I was going back to my normal life.”
    “I do get it,” he said. “But now I know and we WILL talk about it later. Right now, we need to eat.”
    “I’m starving,” she said, glad to change the subject, and she was starving, that was no lie.
    “Good.” He passed her a bowl of salad. “Would you mind putting this on the table? I’ll get the chicken.”
    Skye piled her plate with the chicken and garlic potatoes. “This is delicious,” she said taking a forkful.
    He’d poured them both a glass of juice and a glass of water. “You need to have some salad,” he said.
    “No. I’m not really into rabbit food. Never have been.”
    “It’s good for you,” he said.
    Skye smiled. “So’s the chicken and the potatoes,” she said.
    “We need to spend some time together. Get to know each other properly.”
    “Would you like to know my real name?” Skye teased.
    “That would be a start,” he said.
    “Skye.”
    “That’s pretty. Why’d you lie?”
    Skye shrugged. “I dunno. I guess I just wanted to be someone else for a while. Someone exciting. My whole life I’ve been ordinary.”
    “You think that being an