Stephen was preparing a medical paper when he received an Instant Message from Kylie. "Hi," it said.

Viewing the message, Stephen stopped for a second and wrote: "Whatever you need, I am here for you."

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Kylie: "I need a shoulder to cry on."

Stephen frowned as his heart ached for this girl. "That is not a problem," he replied. "Anything that I can do for you, I will do."

Kylie: "Liar. You aren't even in the same country as I am. How can you give me your shoulder to cry on?"

"Look up into the sky, and you will see me," Stephen wrote. "We are both looking up at the same stars. If we look up at the same time, we are practically standing side by side."

Kylie opened her window and looked up. The stars were shining in the night, but the pure cold moon made her feel sad. "The moon that you see must be different from the one that I see," Kylie wrote. "The sky is so vast, and when I look up into it, I feel alone…"

Suddenly a voice message popped up on her phone. It was from Stephen and, when she played it, she heard his voice for the first time. "You are not alone," Stephen said.

Kylie couldn't help but smile when she heard his voice. It was something she'd wanted to hear for a long time. She was just about to reply to him when William knocked on the bathroom door. "Kylie," he said. "I know you didn't order pizza, so I ordered it. Anyways, it is here, and it is hot. You should get out and come down.

"Thanks!" Kylie replied. "I'll be down in a minute."

The smell of fresh pizza hut Kylie's nose as she walked down the stairs, and her mouth began to water. "Wow," she said. "It smells so good, and I am very hungry!"

"Take a piece!" William commanded. "Take four, if you'd like. I ordered enough to feed a small army. And besides, we need to get some meat on your bones. You are too skinny!" Kylie smiled as she chose a slice, and as she chewed, her eyes closed in satisfaction.

"I like it!" Kylie laughed. "But do you really think that I'm too skinny? The other day, the director said that I was too fat!"

"You are definitely not fat!" William said. "Anyways, since you are going back to Hamorna TV station tomorrow, I wondered if you could bring me back some information."

Kylie was stunned by his request, and she said, "I am not going to be a spy for you!"

"Please," William begged. "Just tell me who the guests on Trailblazer will be. If you did, I would owe you big time!"

"Fine," Kylie agreed, "I'll see what I can do."

After dinner, William and Kylie cleaned up dinner together. It was just a few napkins and the leftover pizza. When Kylie picked up the boxes, she noticed that the boxes were insulated, which she found more than a bit curious. As she moved the boxes into the kitchen, she asked William where the pizza had come from. "It was good," she said. "I'd like to go there with Fannie sometime. She loves pizza as much as I do."

William thought about it for a second, furrowed his brow, and said, "It's just a small shop. It's hard to find."

Obviously, this answer did not satisfy Kylie's curiosity. "No matter how small it is," she said, "it must have a name."

William frowned, and he said, "I admit it; I didn't order the pizza myself actually. I'll find the name for you, though."

William washed his hands, grabbed his phone, and walked out of the room. After a few minutes, he came back into the kitchen and said, "I'm sorry, Kylie. The number I have is wrong."

Kylie shrugged. "It's no big deal," she laughed. "It doesn't matter."

William didn't know it, but Kylie already knew why he was acting so weird and what was up with the pizza boxes.

Once dinner had been cleaned up, William and Kylie said goodnight to each other and went off to their respective rooms.

***

It was a long night for Kylie. Sleep was elusive, and whenever she was even half asleep, she was woken by nightmares. In one, she was being eaten alive by the board members at Garcia Entertainment. In another, she was being assaulted by a shadow man. When she woke up, screaming, she reached for Ethan, but he wasn't there.

At around three o'clock in the morning, she opened her phone and found the video. At first, she was going to turn her phone off again, but instead, she put on her headphones and pressed play. The film was disturbing but compelling. Even though she was heartbroken and this was only making things worse, she watched the video over and over again until she had every one of Ethan's lines memorized.

She found it curious, though, that even though Dora was completely naked, Ethan was still almost completely clothed. Of course, she knew that, for a man, it was easy enough to slip his cock through the fly of his pants and forage ahead, which is what she assumed that he was doing.

Ethan was the kind of man though that liked to go wild when he fucked a girl. The man in the video, he behaved like a perfect gentleman. Finally, though, he did take off his belt, and when he spoke, it was clearly Ethan's voice that she heard. "I'm going to fuck you now," he said.

Kylie closed her eyes and took a deep breath. I shouldn't be watching this, she thought to herself. Just as she was about to turn it off, though, she noticed something that she'd missed. Ethan had a mole on his neck, but the man in the video did not. What does this mean? She asked herself.

Kylie's heart was beating fast. If the man in the video wasn't Ethan, it had certainly been meant to fool people into thinking that it was him. Throughout the film, the man's face wasn't seen; not even once, and Kylie realized right away that Ethan's voice had been dubbed into the film.

"It's not Ethan in the video," she said out loud. She was shocked. Dora had obviously worked very hard on this, hoping to use it as a wedge to destroy her relationship with Ethan, and, so far, it had worked! Dora was a film & television producer. It was a piece of cake for her to edit a video to her specifications… "I should have seen this sooner!" she cried.

As Kylie recovered from the shock, she forced herself to stay calm. This discovery was a big deal, but it did not clear up enough to let Ethan off the hook. He may not have been fucking Dora, but he certainly hadn't been true to her.

Kylie got out of bed and dialed Fannie's number. Fannie didn't answer on the first or second ring, but the third time was the charm. In a groggy voice, Fannie asked, "Who is it, and what do you want?"