<span style="font-style: italic">Robert raised an eyebrow. Boyfriend? The last he had heard his daughter wasn't dating anyone. Stella knows lots of people though the university, a good lot of them male. He supposes that some of them could be mistaken for her boyfriend. He looks over to his daughter, who's staring at her own plate at taking larger bites of food than normal for an explanation. Where Stella fails, Ashley succeeds. <br/><br/>"Dylan called a couple days ago and wanted to know how you guys where doing in Egypt. I told him I'd call you soon as you guys got out of the dig. All of our will be happy to see you back and meet Ari, even if you did come home because of a crappy reason."<br/><br/>Dylan? Is that who Ari thinks is her boyfriend? Before they had left he had been dating someone. He wonders if he still is.</span><br/><br/>Stella doesn't miss when the tear trails down Ari's cheek and he moves away from her. She had forgotten that he probably wouldn't understand the "just friends status" between her and Dylan. Guilt's eating her alive. Tears well up in her eyes. "Ari, I'm sorry. He's just a friend of mine that I've known since i was about fifteen. He's not my boyfriend, just someone I really like talking too, that's all."