(This chapter is solid English)
"Haley, can you come here for a second?" Alexis asked. Haley did so and Alexis gave her an envelope. "Remember the band? They gave you this special."
The envelope was red and more elegant than anything that she had ever received. She read the envelope and it said, 'Dear Haley, I think you should come. It will be allot of fun. We personaly would like to envite you to the party. Bill'. Haley giggled at the invite and the fact that Bill wasn't that great at spelling. Be she was still happy that she was invited.
She opened the envelope and saw its beautiful card and the invite inside which stated the place, time, and other information.
"Thank you Ms. Mead, it was a nice idea."
"Idea? Why don't you want to go?" Her face showed authentic concern.
Haley pointed to her outfit which consisted of old clothes that Daniel had given her. A pair of loose jeans and a hoodie. "Look at me. This is a party for stars and it people. I'm just another ratty teenage girl. I can't ever go to a celebrity party looking like this. Heck, I can barely go to Wal-Mart looking like this."
Alexis turned her head and saw Daniel walking down the hall. "Daniel!" she exclaimed.
He immediately came to her. "What? What did I do?"
She motioned at Haley. "She's been staying with you for the last five days and you still haven't gotten her anything but your old clothes from middle school? What is wrong with you?"
"Hey she didn't want to go. Besides I barely have anytime right now. Somehow we have three different people scheduled to use the same floor, I'm kind of booked here."
"Then I'll take her." Haley's eyes widened as Alexis said that. "She can't go to the Valentine's Day party looking like that."
"Fine," Haley said. "I'll just not go." She turned around and tried to leave but Alexis got a grip on her shoulder. She was stuck.
"Oh no you don't. You can't keep on wearing Daniel's old stuff all the time."
"Then I'll go to the local thrift shop. That's where I buy most of my stuff anyway."
Alexis and Daniel raised their eyebrows. "Okay, take her," Daniel said.
She smiled as she pulled Haley away by her wrist. "What?"
"We'll be back by six," Alexis said.
"Six?" Haley asked. "It's eleven in the morning right now. How long can it take?"
"For you," Alexis said, "Well, we'll be a while." She took Haley into the elevator.
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They came back with several dozen bags of clothes. "Alexis?" Daniel said, "How much did you buy?"
"Well, about half is mine. But I think we got everything we need, especially for the party."
"Yeah," Haley said. "Everything was going fine until…"
"Until what?" Daniel asked.
"Until we hit Victoria's Secret," Alexis said.
Daniel tried the best to get the picture out of his mind. "Okay, please we don't need to get into detail. So what did you get her for the party?"
Alexis reached into a large suit bag and unzipped it. It revealed a dark red halter dress. It had a dark pink sash around the waist and thin rhinestones along the neckline.
"I'm not wearing that," Haley groaned. "I'd feel stupid. I haven't worn a dress since I was ten and in church."
"Haley, I saw you in that thing. You look great."
She moaned again. "Do I have-"
"Yes," Alexis and Daniel said in unison.
"Come on. Not all the stars there will be in their twenties and thirties. I heard that the Sprouse brothers were coming"
She raised her eyebrows in a way that said 'what's your point?'.
"Come on, Haley. It won't hurt."
"Fine. But I'm bringing a jacket with me, or else I'd feel like an idiot."
Alexis grinned in agreement, "Great, which color?"
She looked at her with confusement. "I don't know! I'm going to go listen to my CD player again." She pulled her CD player out. "And… the battery is dead."
"Good," Alexis said. "The way you keep listening to that you'll be deaf before thirty."
"What am I supposed to do all day then?"
Alexis shrugged. "How about we make it 'Take Your Daughter to Work Day'?" Daniel and Haley looked at her confused.
"What?" Laurie asked. "I've been doing that for the last five days. How will making it a sixth make any difference?"
"Because before you would sit in the hall waiting until someone would drive you home. For the rest of the day you're going to follow him around. Maybe someday you'll take on the family business someday."
Alexis walked away as Haley moaned. "Come one, legally we aren't even related. We might not even be related at all!"
She turned her head to look at Daniel. "Are you sure she's your sister? She acts like your dad, or an older brother."
"You have no idea," Daniel said. He was right.
"Whatever. Okay Mr. Mead, what's first?"
"Um, actually I'm not sure. Betty's supposed to call me and tell me where I'm going."
RING
"And there she is." He picked up his phone in relief. "Betty, what have we got today?"
"Daniel, why are you talking so hastily?"
"No reason."
She didn't believe him. "Anyway, you're having a meeting with Megan Stine in twenty minutes about adding her styles to the April magazine. And be careful, she ticks off very easily. We need her Daniel."
"Yeah, yeah. I got it." He hung up the phone. "Well won't this be exciting? You're going to meet a fashion designer."
"Yeah, about as exciting as when Tom chased Jerry. Weee." She said sarcastically. "Can't I just go next door and buy some batteries?"
"We'll take care of that later. Right now we don't have time." He left and Haley knew that she would have to follow.
She ran her fingers through her hair as she sighed. "Let's just get this over with."
