Charita didn't know that Bella was standing behind her bedroom window while her mother was talking to someone else at the front of the house. The girl saw Sky even through the only slightly opened curtains, and she didn't want Sky and Charita to see her there.

Bella heard their every word, but not intending to go out or meet Sky, the girl chose to sit back on the edge of the bed after Charita slammed the main door—so Sky left there.

"Why do strangers act so scary? Why do they invade other people's privacy so easily," Charita asked as she entered Bella's room. The woman stopped babbling about Sky...