Lies, Gossip and Hurt Feelings
Chapter 1: The Scream
Angela always got to the shower first. It was like her morning solace. She'd rush to get up and rush the bathroom and drown out her sister, Lilith, banging on the door by singing. Every morning since they were ten this was how it went. Until one morning when things went differently. Lilith woke up moaning in pain early one day before school. She rushed to the bathroom a full thirty minutes before Angela usually wakes up. Then everyone in the house was woken up by a high pitched scream coming from the bathroom. Angela jumped out of bed and hit the floor. Before she could even get up, the screaming turned to yelling.
"Mom," shouted Lilith from the bathroom. There was silence until she shouted again. "Mom, I need you." Finally, a half asleep Mary-Sue responded sleepily.
"Alright, I'm up. Hold your horses." she was way too tired to comprehend the emergency.
As soon as Lilith heard her mom outside the door, she flung it open and yanked her mom inside, slamming the door behind her. Angela picked herself up off the floor and shuffled toward the bathroom. She knew that, for some reason, her mom and her sister were inside together. Just as she tried to put her ear to the door, the handle turned so she jerked her face away and stepped back. Mary-Sue opened the door and carefully closed it behind her. She saw Angela standing patiently in the hallway.
"If you need the use the bathroom go downstairs," she said calmly, but weakly, as she slowly went down the stairs herself. Angela sighed and went back to her room, grabbed her towel and clothes and went downstairs to shower. When she was done she went back upstairs and listened at the bathroom door again. Apparently her mom and sister were still in there! She couldn't really hear anything, so she went to go eat breakfast before the school bus came. Her dad was leaving for work around that time, so she figured she would ask her dad if he knew what was up with Lilith and Mary-Sue.
"Your mother made me promise not to tell. It's a very private matter. Give your sister some space today, okay?" he said while putting on his sweater. Angela sighed and nodded since there wasn't much else she could do.
Lilith and Mary-Sue finally did come downstairs in time for the girls to get on the bus. Angela didn't dare breathe a word to Lilith because of what her dad told her, but also because of the frightful look in her eyes that Angela had never seen before.
Angela was distracted from her curiosity of her sister's morning when she sat down on the bus seat beside her best friend, Meadow. Meadow looked positively livid with bloodshot eyes. When Angela inquired about what was wrong, Meadow only needed to utter two words, "Jasmine Davison."