Right? You don't even necessarily have to say what you're looking after. In this case that would have been a good idea, but as a whole just say your friend wanted you to keep something for them for a bit and stop the explanation there, or add in something like "he said it was private and not to go digging into it" or something. Even if it was just his grandma, that would have been enough. BUT then we wouldn't have this chapter, lol, so I guess hands tied...just tell them you're looking after some stuff for a friend? it's really not harder than that, no way i would take the fall for something like this after it pretty much got dumped on him