CHAPTER 3:

The house may look big in the front, but inside, it looks like a hotel! Raven had to go outside to check and make sure it wasn't a real hotel.

"Rachel! Honey? Is that you? Are you back from school yet?" a woman called out.

Raven couldn't believe her eyes.

There she saw a woman in a gold sequenced dress and long curled hair. She had her eyelashes curled with a dramatic cat eye. She had red lipstick and gold dangling earrings that fell to her shoulders. Raven finally got it. The woman calling for her was her mother underneath all that makeup.

"Mamma?"

"Hello Rachel Baby! How was your day at school? Do you want some herbal tea?" she asked.

"Sure Arella-bella," Raven joked.

"Consuela! Some herbal tea for me and my daughter please," called Raven's mother.

She turned back to Raven, "Arella-bella? Where did that come from? What happened to 'Angela-bee'?"

"Pardon?" Raven asked. She almost screamed, but she held it in.

"Angela-bee!" she said with a smile.

Raven was confused, "Angela?...Bee?" Now, she was yelling.

"Yeah honey that's what you've been calling me since you were a little girl! Silly goose!" she said, "And we are inside, please use your inside voice."

"Why?" Raven screamed.

"Well, we are indoors and it's rude to-"

"I meant about the nickname!"

She elaborated for Raven, "Well, my first name is Angela. And you kept on saying 'Angela-bee' when I was trying to teach you my name. Get it sweetie?"

"I'm not stupid mom! I get it."

"Well, sometimes..."

Raven sighed. "So what, now I'm dumb on Earth?" she thought.

An old woman walked up to Raven and her mother.

"Here you go...Angela, Rachel," she greeted as she handed her herbal tea.

"Thank you Consuela," Angela replied.

Raven was curious, "So who thought of the name 'Rachel' anyways?"

"Well I wanted your first name to be 'Raven'," Angela answered, "but Jonathan thought differently-"

"Jonathan?" Raven questioned. She was still yelling.

"Yeah. You know? Jon-Jon? About this high?" raising her hand to about half a foot above her, "My husband? Your step-father? Ring a bell?"

"When did you guys get married?"

"Well we were dating when you were born and he proposed not long after your first birthday. Then we got married a couple months later."

"Oh. Okay," Raven responded. She was still shocked and confused on the inside, but she held her emotions in like usual to make it seem normal. "Wait, but who's my real-"

Angela interrupted, "Okay well enough chit-chat, let's cut to the 'chiz'. Why don't you enjoy your Friday and relax in your room?"

"Can you show me where that is?" Raven asked.

Angela was confused, "You can't find it yourself?"

"Well...um...it's...such a big house! Yeah. And I still get lost..." Raven improvised.

"Sure...I guess..."

Angela led 'Rachel' up a flight of stairs up one story and to the third door on the left. Rachel looked at the door and saw the label saying 'Rachel's Room! Knock first!' Angela opened the door and gestured Rachel to go in. She saw a bright, colorful room ahead of her.

"Okay. Well, I'm just gonna...meditate in here," she told her mother.

"Meditate? Since when? Well, whatever you want to do now a-days honey. Consuela will start cooking dinner at 6 o'clock, okay?"

"Okay Arel-I mean Angela-bee." said Raven.