Secrets of a Doll

Chapter Nine

"Don't you think it's weird how they left the room at the same time and just never came back?" Cynthia pushed this idea onto Anabella.

They were both on the phone with each other talking about last night.

"well I really think that it's just a coincidence that they left at the same time" she replied "we don't even know if they left the house together"

"maybe you're right..I guess we won't ever know for sure.." she gave up "..unless we call them." she smiled.

"Cynthia, no!" Anabella protested "we should just leave them be, they'll know we're like conspiring against them!"

"oh relax!" she said "they don't ever have to know that we're snooping around"

"And it isn't conspiring either, that's way different" she reasoned, "we're only trying to help them out, in a way".

Anabella didn't say anything back and instead just raised her eyebrows confused.

"listen, I'll call Brad and you can call Christie" Cynthia insisted.

"ok fine..." Anabella pretended to agree. She didn't want to be the one that was responsible for this getting out.

"okay, cool" she lightened up "stay on the phone, I'm putting you on hold" she said before holding the line and dialing in another number.

Anabella did the same and immediately dialed in Christina's number.

Christina was on her bed flipping through a magazine when her phone that was resting on her nightstand began to ring. She left the magazine open as she quickly reached for the phone and answered it, all while still having her attention on the magazine pages.

"hello" she said in a light tone.

"Christina, you have to call Brad right now" Anabella rushed her.

"what?" Christina said, taken aback "why?"

"Cynthia's on the phone with him trying to figure out the what the deal is between you two" she replied talking as fast as she could.

"why? what for? what happened?" Christina asked.

"nothing, she just saw you two leave the room last night together and now she's going crazy wanting to figure it out" she explained "you already know how she is!"

"okay, I'll call him, just stay on the line okay?" Christina said as she put her on hold and dialed in Brad's phone number.

"so where'd you go after you ditched everyone last night?" Cynthia asked in a suspecting tone.

"to uh..drive Christina home." he answered briefly.

"that's really interesting.." she said in a sweet but fake tone "that's something you've been doing often as of recently, right?"

"ah." he said after he got the hint "you think we got something going on, is that it?"

"uhm, no" she said "...that's not what I think unless that's...." she went on, playing dumb to get an answer out of him.

Suddenly Brad's phone rang from someone calling on another line.

"shit" he said "I got someone calling, give me a sec."

"wait, but why can't you just tell me right now before you-!" her sentence was cut off as the line was put on hold.

"Uh, yea?" he answered the other line.

"Were you just on the phone with Cynthia?" Christina asked as soon as he picked up her call.