"Where are you coming from?" Alex asked without looking back to look at her. He was surprised when he didn't meet her at home; he even called her, but she didn't pick up the phone, which he finally called Shawn.

"Is this some type of interrogation?" Ellie whispered to herself without knowing that Alex heard her. "I went to visit my friend."

"So you did not think to inform me." He was so angry, but he also did not want to scare her. He knew that she had gone to meet the same guy she was crushing on, which was getting him even more angry.

"I was told you left...