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'What…?'

It's already late evening, almost night time. He's still here so he was pretty confused. It's weird that helping someone with bullies causes Klein to be this much stressed. He heard the bell ring and opened the door.

His mother sighs in relief and enters the house. She put her stuff away and looked at Stephen worriedly.

"I lost my key. We should change our lock-"

"Huh? No. I accidentally brought your key. It's here."

"But…no way. I locked the door with the key this morning…"

Stephen is now suspicious of Kevin. Now he thinks Kevin actually steals the key from his mother.

"My friend gave me this…he said I dropped it…"

"Hm…ah! Maybe the person I bump into this morning was your friend and he knew I was your mother and saw I dropped the key and gave it to you!"

"But still he said I drop it when he didn't even gave me-"