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“You’re not answering that, are you?” he said “We’re in thehere”

They were in the ht Kirsty just wasn’t sure what that so was

“I have to,” she said with genuine regret “It ht be important”

He leaned against the counter and gave her a look she couldn’t quite decipher Kirsty picked up the phone, told him she would be one minute and headed for the bedroom

“What?” she snapped into the phone

“We talked about your tone, Kirsty,” said her mum

Kirsty sighed loudly She pulled back the bedroo in theup at her

“What’s going on?” Kirsty said “I don’t have much time to talk”

“You think ant to be dilly-dallying? Jean is here with her grandson and he says that it will take too long to get into Lake’s laptop He also said there are other coht be on them instead So, what do we do?”

Kirsty chewed her bottom lip This had been so si a ed one teeny-tiny eo that smoothly

“Okay, you’ll have to take it with you and work on it at home,” she said at last

“Take what?” her mother said

Kirsty bit her tongue to stop fro as in her head

“All of the computer stuff”

“That’s stealing, Kirsty Campbell!”