A different view on the Stingers hit town. From a different view
The Stingers are at the Starlight Mansion. Riot flirts with Jem, Jerrica and all of the Holograms. He is known as a womanizer. Minx and Rapture are about the only women he doesn't flirt with. The Stingers are not very nice to most of the Starlight Girls.
"Jerrica," Aja called. "Lela has been gone at a friend's house, since yesterday. She doesn't know about the company we have."
"We should tell her, before she comes home and is surprised by them." Shana commented.
"You are right Shana!" Jerrica said, "I will call her now."
Jerrica picks up the phone and dials a number. The phone rings and rings, no one answered. "I guess nobody's there; we will just have to tell her when she gets home."
As Riot is coming down the stairs Lela comes in the door. Riot sees her. He goes over to her. Lela looks up at him shocked, "W-Who are you?" she asked.
He replies, "I am Riot and I am staying here for the time being."
Riot kisses Lela's hand, Lela smiles. "You have me at a major disadvantage, beautiful! You know my name, but I don't know yours." He said.
"It's Lela!" she said with her hand still in his.
"Lela, a beautiful name for a beautiful girl," Riot said as he continued to kiss her hand.
"Why thank you Riot." She replied.
Riot still had a hold of Lela pulls her into a kiss, just as Jerrica walks into the room surprised by what she sees. "What is going on here?" Jerrica calls angrily.
Riot and Lela both shocked to see Jerrica standing there. Riot lets go of Lela and she steps away from him. "Lela, you go to your room now!" Jerrica said still angry.
Lela does not even bother to look at Riot runs up the stairs to her room. She leaves an angry Jerrica alone with Riot. "Jerrica, look I can explain" Riot said trying to calm her down.
"No Riot you can't. I can take you flirting with Jem, my friends and even myself. What I will not go for is you kissing a fifteen year old girl." Jerrica said.
Riot thought wow she is only fifteen, she is a very beautiful fifteen. "Jerrica, Lela is a very beautiful woman!"
Jerrica says to him, "She is not a woman! She is a child!"
Riot asks, "If she is just a child as you so kindly put it, where are her parents?"
Jerrica looked away from him, she couldn't believe she having this conversation with him. He knows that she runs a home for foster girls. He went from not being very nice to the younger girls to trying to make out with the oldest one.
Jerrica turns back toward him, "Lela is the oldest of my Starlight Girls. Her parents died a long time ago."
"That is a shame, that she doesn't have a father to protect her, after all she is a very beautiful woman!" Riot said.
Jerrica says again to him, "She is not a woman! She is a child! I will protect her."
Jerrica knew what Riot had meant. Lela has really grown up. Pretty soon she will want to date. She thought about her own father's response to when she was Lela's age and dating Rio. Even though her father had known Rio for years, he took a different response. He intimidated Rio, making sure that no harm would come to his teenage daughter. Jerrica thought I am only twenty-four years old, can I really protect a teenager who is ready to date.
Jerrica says to Riot, "Stay away from her! If I catch you with her again, there will be no business deal. I would like you to sign with us but I am not risking Lela's safety." Jerrica then runs off to think about what she is going to do about Lela.
Jerrica enters her office at the mansion, slams the door behind her and goes to sit on the couch. The Holograms who have had their own problems with the Stingers since they arrived go to talk to Jerrica. The Holograms heard Jerrica slam the door to the office. "Jerrica," Aja asked, "What is wrong? What did the Stingers do now?"
Jerrica looked up at her friends "Not the Stingers, Riot. I caught him kissing Lela."
Raya said shocked, "He did what?"
Shana asked, "What are we going to do now?"
Jerrica said shaking her head, "I don't know. I told him if he goes near her again, their will be no contract."
"What did he have to say about that?" Kimber asked.
"I don't know, I didn't give him a chance to respond. I was fed up with that conversation anyway. He kept saying and I quote 'Lela is a very beautiful woman.' I told him that she is not a woman, she is a child." Jerrica told the others.
Kimber said, "Jerrica, Lela is not a child, she is fifteen and a very attractive teenager."
Aja said, "Lela is going to be dating soon. What are we going to do when she does?"
Shana speaks up, "We don't know what goes on at the high school. Boys could already be looking at her. She could be looking at them as well."
Raya asked, "Jerrica, did Lela resist Riot's kissing, or was she kissing him back."
Jerrica answered, "It appeared to me, that she was kissing him back."
Aja asked "Jerrica, what did you say to her about what you saw?"
Jerrica replied, "Nothing yet. I just sent her to her room."
Jerrica and the Holograms talked a little more, mostly about what are they going to do when Lela starts dating.
Jerrica goes up the stairs to talk to Lela about what happened. She knocks on the door. Privacy is very important to the Starlight Girls as it is to everyone. The Starlight Girls did not get much privacy at the old Starlight House, because they had to share their rooms with each other.
Lela opened the door to let Jerrica in. Lela starts to speak, but Jerrica interrupts her, "What had happen downstairs can not happen again. I don't want you near Riot."
"Jerrica, Riot kiss it was great. The way he looked at me, was so flattering." Lela explained.
"I know that Riot is a womanizer. He flirted with Jem, all of the Holograms and even me." Jerrica said and then went on. "Yes it is flattering and kind make you feel something you never felt before, because he has so much charm. However when he flirts with a teenager it is just wrong."
"Jerrica you don't understand!" Lela cried
"Understand this; if I catch you with Riot again, you will be grounded. Have I made my self clear?" Jerrica said to her.
Lela replied, " Crystal!"
"One more thing, have you been kissed before today?" Jerrica asked.
Lela shocked by her question answered, "Where did that come from?"
Jerrica answered, "I just want to know, so please answer the question."
Lela answered, "No, today wasn't the first time that I have been kissed."
Jerrica asks, "You have been kissed before! When was this?"
Lela knowing that Jerrica is not going to like her answer says, "Sometime last month."
"Who did you kiss? You don't have our permission to date, so I know your not dating anyone, are you?" Jerrica asked.
"The kiss just happened and no I am not dating anyone." Lela lied.
"Good, and remember stay away from Riot or you will be grounded." Jerrica said as she left Lela's room.
Lela sat alone in her room. She knows that she shouldn't have lied about dating, but she was already in enough trouble for kissing Riot and she didn't want to make things worse.
Ashley, Becky and Delaree came into Lela's room.
"I heard Jerrica was angry about something and she just left here. Are you okay?" Becky asked.
"I bet you it has to do with those Stingers. That Riot is a real jerk." Ashley commented.
"I am fine; I don't think Riot is a jerk. I actually think He is gorgeous." Lela told them.
"Do you know why Jerrica is so angry?" Delaree asked.
"I actually do, Jerrica caught Riot and I kissing and she flipped out." Lela said.
"No way, you were kissing Riot. How was it?" Ashley asked.
"It was great! Unbelievable! However, Jerrica said if happens again, she will ground me." Lela said.
Jerrica changed into Jem for rehearsal and as Jem she ran into Riot. Riot was being his usual flirtatious self. Jem was angry at him but she had to be careful about what she said and what she had seen as Jerrica.
"Jem my darling, why are you so angry at me." Riot asked.
"Jerrica told me about what happened between you and her fifteen year old foster girl. How could you kiss her, when she is so young?" Jem said. Jem had to remember not to refer as a child. Jerrica was the one that called her a child.
"Oh that!" Riot said. "She is beautiful and she doesn't look fifteen."