The girls confide in Kylie their suspicions

As the girls schemed, Kyle trudged across the grass in his heels as he walked up the hill from Uncle Mark's to Melissa's house, awkwardly shifting his body and picking his bikini bottom out of his ass every six seconds.

"Stupid MARCI, stupid girls... Stupid Sam!" Kyle thought to himself, not speaking it aloud for fear of triggering something thanks to MARCI being literally everywhere, in his phone, the house, anything said in her presence would come back to haunt him later.

As he approached the house, Kyle thought about knocking on the front door, but realizing that the girls would already be in the yard, and not particularly wanting to run into Melissa's mother again, Kyle instead opted for knocking on the back gate. Kyle could hear the girls giggling and chatting, which died down when they heard the knocking. After a few moment, the gate was unlocked by Melissa, who let Kyle in.

"Kylie! What took so long?" Melissa asked.

"Oh, nothing..." Kyle replied. "Just talking with Sam."

"What about?" Darla asked.

"Nothing important, just sibling stuff." Kyle replied.

"You look great in that suit, by the way." Robin said.

"Thanks..." Kyle blushed, wishing that he didn't look good in it.

"How do I look?" Robin asked, slightly more probing than usual.

Kyle looked Robin up and down, unsure of why she was asking the question. Is this what girls do? Ask each other how they look and exchange compliments? Did she change something about herself since the car? Kyle wracked his brain for an answer, but found none.

"You look great too." Kyle replied, hoping that the answer was satisfactory.

No one said anything else for a moment, and Kyle wondered if he'd done something wrong. After a moment, Melissa filled the silence.

"So, we should get started on our tans, can't waste a minute of this sun!" Melissa exclaimed.

"...Right!" Robin chimed in.

As they started getting their towels ready, Darla approached Kyle and got uncomfortably close, putting her hand on Kyle's shoulder.

"So, Kylie... We just want you to know that we're sorry." Darla said.

"Sorry? For what?" Kyle questioned.

"For forcing you to do stuff you didn't want to do. We get it now." Melissa added in.

"You get what now?" Kyle, still confused, asked.

"It's okay, you don't need to hide anymore, we know your secret!" Robin blurted out.

"Robin!" Melissa scolded.

Well, that was it then, wasn't it? All the pretending was for naught, since they figured it out! It was probably something he said...

"You do?!" Kyle exclaimed. "How did you know?"

"Well, the way you act, the way you dressed when we met, how out of your depth you were at the mall... It's so obvious now, that I can't believe it took us this long!" Darla said.

"This is... Wait, you're not mad? And you're not gonna make fun of me?" Kyle asked.

"Be mad? Make fun of you? Why would we be mad that you're a..." Melissa turned her head towards the house quickly. "Lesbian?"

"Lesbian?" Kyle's eyes widened. "You think I'm a..."

"It took us some time to put everything together, but don't worry. Your secret's safe with us. And uh... if I was you, I wouldn't mention anything about it around Melissa's mom... she's very traditional." Robin said.

"So we promise, no more boy talk. And we'll deal with Rob, don't worry." Darla said.

"You don't understand, I..." Kyle tried to speak, but Melissa put her finger on his lips.

"Let's not talk about it anymore here... We can talk about it later, let's just get to sunbathing, okay?" Melissa asked.

The fear was evident in her voice, so Kyle just nodded and followed along with the girls as they set themselves up on their towels...