Her shoulders go stiff when he calls her out on the lie. "Wrong," she insists, immediately. "I was out late because I had a lot of homework, and I still have to do it!"

"You don't want me to get in trouble at school, right? They might come asking into my home life," she says, hoping he'd pick up the implied threat in her words. "So you should leave me alone so I can do my homework."

It's a long shot, but she'll try it anyway.