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“Well, are you, Katie? Are you just going to give up on Kai because he kept one secret?”

“That’s a pretty da secret, Penny I won’t be with someone who can’t be honest with me I can’t be with someone who doesn’t trust me” I wipe at my tears and blow my nose

Grabbingand questioningto hear his reason why? Aren’t you at least curious?”

“Stop talking, Penny,” I snap at her

“Why because you can’t handle the truth? There is a little girl out there who thinks you hung the moon, and today is her birthday, and her worlda selfish brat, Katie Francis”

I stop packing and think about what she is saying I throw myself backwards onto my bed “I just…he lied toand recording, he doesn’t have tiraduated today This isn’t the kind of probleirl that ruins his chance at ets her life as she knows it to be screwed up”

“Does Kai being Khloe’s dad change the way you feel about him?”

“I’d like to hear the answer to that?” Kai says froed

“I’ll call you to and I nod

She squeezes Kai’s shoulder as she passes by him He still hasn’t come all the way in my door

“Are you leaving?” He stares aton the floor His hands are balled up into tightly clenched fists

“You lied to me, Kai Would you have ever told me?”

“I wanted to soyou…I was protecting Khloe” He takes a deep breath, and I can tell he is trying to hold back his tears

“From what, Kai? You knohat I think? You didn’t want your dirty little secret getting out to the press” That was ht now

He doesn’t say anything, and he doesn’t stop s