New Life : A Second Chance

Kyle smiled and bent down carefully to look at Little Kyle, answering him in his own voice, "Yes, it\'s me."

Then, he changed his voice again so that it sounded more feminine, "Though you must now call me Big Sister okay?"

Little Kyle nodded.

"I\'ll need to put on a bit of make-up on you. Just so that you look slightly different and your stepdad would not be able to recognise you. Would that be okay?" Kyle asked gently, putting aside the matter of the name for now.

Little Kyle took a long, good look at Kyle then after a deep breath, he nodded.

Kyle didn\'t really need to do much with Little Kyle, for he was beautiful enough. Just gave him a darker shade of skin and the illusion of a high cheekbone. It was little, but enough, especially when one paired it with the wig.

What was important was that he wouldn\'t look like Little Kyle anymore.

"They\'ll be checking up on tickets again in an hour or so," Kyle said, looking at his watch. While this was a \'sleeper\' train, it didn\'t mean that it only operated at night. It would operate even in the daytime, so long as the journey would go through several states.

It only meant that it didn\'t have that many sleeping cabins as most did not choose it. It was only for spoilt people like Kyle - who placed importance on comfort (and had the money to burn). This was an express train, and would only stop at one station in each State, so their tickets would be checked at those times.

Kyle said to Little Kyle, "We only need to do this for this stop. After that, you can go back to being Kyle. I\'ll just call you \'sis\' so you don\'t have to worry about a name."

Xing Han then said to Kyle, "So, you\'re Kylie then?"

Kyle nodded, "Sure"

"Why just this stop?" Little Kyle asked, after he waited for them to finish talking.

"If all goes according to plan, your stepdad and his lady friend will get kicked out at the next stop because I threw away their tickets," Kyle explained.

"Couldn\'t they just buy new ones?"

"A very good question," Kyle answered, "But no."

"Why not?"

"Because they don\'t have enough money," Kyle said with a grin.

They could tell the ticket conductor that they had lost their tickets, and would only need to pay the fine and purchase a new pair. However, when Kyle was checking them out, there was not much cash. Kay had also blocked their cards, by making a report that it had been stolen.

"But what if they could?" Little Kyle insisted.

Kyle took his question seriously and replied, "Then you\'ll have to be in disguise until the end of the journey. We will need to show our faces once in a while but can spend most of our time here. You wouldn\'t need to be in disguise so much."

Little Kyle nodded and answered, "Okay."

Kyle, on the other hand, was feeling a bit worried.

Little Kyle appeared intelligent, so for him to be worried over this meant that Cornelius could have the capabilities. But how would Cornelius be able to gather the money at short notice? Loan? Call his friends for help?

Suddenly, Kyle remembered the phones he took. He cursed himself for his carelessness and quickly rummaged through his stuff for the phone. He breathed a sigh of relief to note that the phones were switched off. At least he had that presence of mind to do so.

[Kay, download the things from these phones ASAP and get the drone back here]

Kyle put his phone inbetween the two phones, and using a special cable, connected the two phones to his.

Kay immediately went to work and did as Kyle asked her, while he went to open the window. Since the drone had already found them once (by using the locator in Kyle\'s phone), it could get back easily.

[Done]

[Great. Thanks]

Kyle then dismantled the phone quickly, smashed the sim card and placed it in a paper bag with a bottle of cold water. The moment the drone came back, Kyle didn\'t even tap it to make it stop. He quickly hooked it on its tail as it passed by and tapped it three times to have it make a U-turn and leave.

[Send the drone towards the last stop. Once it loses its cargo, let it go back] Kyle instructed.

The water condensation from the bottle would make the paper bag soft and eventually, break open. The pieces would scatter all over, and away from them.

Although breaking the phone apart would already make the phone untraceable, Kyle did not want to take any chances. He had been negligent earlier so he felt taking extra precautions would be for the best.

Kyle always took these little \'hints\' and \'signs\' seriously, more so in this life. The only reason he remembered about the phones was due to Little Kyle\'s seemingly innocent question. If he had ignored that, perhaps something would have happened?

He truly didn\'t know but he didn\'t want to risk it.

When he saw Little Kyle looking puzzled over the actions, Kyle told him, "Yes, those were your stepdad and lady friend\'s phones. Just felt it\'s best that it was far, far away."

Little Kyle nodded, accepting the explanation.

Without even realising it, he was beginning to take everything Kyle said with complete trust. Not only was Kyle the only adult who saw that he was in trouble - and helped, he had been treated like an adult. Kyle didn\'t talk down on him and explained things clearly.

Little Kyle\'s eyes shone.

He studied Big Kyle from top to toe, and knew that if he hadn\'t known that was Big Kyle, he would have never imagined that \'she\' was actually a \'he\'. Big Kyle was perfect. When he grew up, he was going to be exactly like Big Kyle.

Even their names were the same.

At that thought, Little Kyle\'s lips quivered.

No, that was not true. Their names weren\'t really the same ...