[... crap. Busted. He can feel his face heating up, but there's no real way out of it now.]

Okay, yeah, he's my girlfriend's adopted little brother. I swear I was going to tell everyone about her, but she's sort of from really far away so... you know...

[Besides, who would believe 'I totally have a girlfriend guys she's just from another world!'? That's worse than having a 'girlfriend in Australia.']