A Breath Of Fresh Air

"What?" Amelie thought she heard her wrong. "How do you know Johnathan Radcliffe?"

Elizabeth didn't think it was the right time to play innocent. She looked at her friend with a somewhat disappointed look in her eyes and said in a kind tone, "Come on, Amelie. I am sure you have already figured it all out. The rumors... He is the man from the rumors."

Amelie couldn't deny that she had been already suspecting it but now that Lizzy confirmed it, it all fell into place. 

"I refused to believe any of it," she started carefully. "Especially since the source of the rumors was shady. Is it all true? Everything?"

Elizabeth clutched the cold glass between her hands and shook her head. 

"Not all of it... God, who would have thought that I would still end up talking about it in the end? I guess it's true what they: you can't hide the truth forever."