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broken phone out of her clutch. She stared at the time on the cracked screen and saw it was getting late. She worried that if she did not make it home soon, Kyle was going to get worried or suspicious. So she decided to give him a call.
    “Hi, honey. It’s me,” Abby said after Kyle picked up.
    “Hey babe. I called you a few minutes ago, and you didn’t pick up.”
    “I’m sorry. I had to put my phone on silent for the concert and forgot to turn it back on.” Abby winced as the lie came out of her mouth. She had told Kyle more lies that day than in the three years she had known him.
    “Where are you? Shouldn’t the concert be over by now?” Kyle asked.
    Abby began to stammer, “Oh, the girls and I decided to go to a bar for drinks after the concert.” Another lie. 
    Brianna came back to the living room area holding a couple of glasses of wine in her hands. She gave Abby a questioning look.
    “All right. Have fun and be careful,” Kyle said.
    “I’ll be home in a bit, honey,” Abby replied, raising her gaze and meeting Brianna’s.
    “I love you,” Kyle said.
    “I love you too, Kyle,” Abby replied before ending the call. She quickly shoved the phone back inside her clutch.
    “The girls?” Brianna asked, raising an eyebrow as she sat on the couch next to Abby and handed her one of the wine glasses. “Kyle doesn’t know you are out with me, does he?”
    Abby took the wine glass from Brianna’s hand and stared at the floor for a moment. “I’m sorry,” she said, raising her gaze to meet Brianna’s. “After our meeting at the café, I tried to talk to him about you. When I brought your name up, he just shut me down. I wanted to invite you over to our apartment for dinner, but he didn’t even let me get that far. The mere mention of your name had him seething with anger.”
    Brianna shrugged as she took a sip from her wine. “I told you it was a lost cause. He will never change. I’ve come to terms with the fact that he will never accept me or even tolerate me. I can’t make him love me, Abby. That’s just the way things are.” Brianna placed her glass down on the coffee table.
    The resignation in Brianna’s voice made Abby profoundly sad. She too placed her glass of wine on the coffee table without taking a single sip. “But Kyle said the fact that you are gay is not the reason why you two don’t have a relationship. He told me to stay away from you because you are a liar and have done some disturbing things. What was he talking about, Brianna?”
    Brianna scoffed. “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He was just a kid when I left home. My family filled his head with lies about me. I’m not going to go into details, but I can promise you I didn’t do any of the disturbing things he was told I did. He chose to believe the lies and never gave me a chance to explain my side of the story.”
    Abby scooted over and placed her palm over Brianna’s hand, giving it a squeeze. “I’m so sorry, Brianna.” Abby’s heart was breaking for her. She had two brothers and was very close to them. She couldn’t even begin to imagine what it would feel like to have one of them shun her the way Kyle had shunned Brianna.
    “I guess you and I won’t be hanging out anymore after tonight, huh?” A bitter smile twisted Brianna’s face.  “I don’t want you to lie to Kyle. I don’t want him getting mad at you because of me.” Brianna freed her hand from Abby’s and reached for her drink.
    Abby refused to throw in the towel. “I’ll talk to him again. I will get him to talk to you so you two can straighten things out. Just give me some time.”
    Brianna chuckled at Abby’s naive stubbornness. It touched her heart that Abby wanted to fix her relationship with Kyle so badly, but she knew that it was a lost cause. She had spent years trying to do just that to no avail. Brianna tucked a leg under her and twisted her body so she could face Abby. Resting her elbow on the edge of the sofa and