Dinner is served

Despite Kyle's general lack of desire to be in this situation, he hadn't eaten since breakfast, so dinner was a very welcome outcome to the day. Melissa and the other girls took a moment to take pictures of their food for social media, something that the boys, and Kyle did not do. Sam was quick to converse with Melissa, Robin and Darla, but they were busy trying to get Kylie to talk.

"I can't wait to show you around tomorrow." Darla said. "We haven't had a new girl in this group for years. Person who moved in the most recently was Eli and that was years ago!"

"I wasn't quite as interested in shopping as they would have liked." Eli joked.

Kyle weakly laughed as he thought about the shopping and all the girly activities he'd have to endure. If Sam couldn't fix MARCI... hell, even if Sam does, how do they explain why Kylie went missing? He either has to come clean about dressing this way, or keep dressing this way until the summer ends. Neither option is promising. Maybe he can sit down with Uncle Mark and explain everything and he has a mind wiper hidden away in a drawer somewhere...

"Remember Kylie, I'll pick you up around 11AM for the shopping trip." Darla said, snapping Kyle out of his trance.

MARCI buzzed in his pocket and Kyle sighed.

"Can't wait." Kyle smiled.

"The chicken is great, Theresa." Sam remarked.

"Thank you very much, Sam." Theresa replied.

Everyone nodded in agreement as they kept eating. Kyle was especially hungry and grabbed another piece of chicken off the tray and started digging in.

"Woah, Kylie. You've got quite an appetite." Theresa remarked.

"I uh... had a light breakfast, so I'm starving." Kyle replied. He might have to temper his appetite around her, or she'd be critiquing every thing he did.

"Oh to be that young and not worried about calories yet." Theresa laughed.

"Come on, Mom! You're pretty skinny yourself." Melissa interjected.

"And I work very hard at it." Theresa laughed again.

Conversations started cropping up here and there are dinner continued. Kyle's phone started to buzz and he worried that it was Marci again, but it turned out to be social media notifications. Kylie had amassed quite a few followers and likes in the short time since the accounts had been opened.

"Ooh! Nice" Darla nodded as she leaned over to see Kyle's phone.

"Looks like someone's popular..." Melissa grabbed the phone and started scrolling through. "Know her, know her... don't know her... She's pretty!"

Kyle wrestled the phone back and put it back in his pocket silently hoping that the meal would end soon as he was pulled into another conversation with the girls.