AURELIA
"We are just talking about the trip that Aurie just went on. And she can not give you the phone or she will get in trouble. Alpha Bale asked her to keep it safe until he asks for it." Ellie is quick to think of a lie. I am very impressed actually because I would not have thought of that right now.
The best that I would have come up with is probably that the phone belongs to Alpha Bale, which would have been impossible to believe obviously!
"Is that so? Why should I believe that it was not stolen?" Aunt Gaby questions with insistence in her voice and Ellie shurgs.
"Cone on,Ma. I am not lying to you." Ellie replies desperately and I finally decide to chip in and stop acting like I am a ghost. As obvious as it is that she is trying her hardest and sweating the most about savin
