The chapter took longer to finish than I thought it would.

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Andromeda chuckled as she watched the Curtis family ice their respective quarters of the cake. Both Pony's and Darry's were pretty well done. Soda's however, was a bit of a mess in comparison. Well, a 'bit of a mess' was an understatement.

Soda stepped back and looked at Andromeda's quarter before he said, "Damn A.C., when'd you learn to ice a cake like that?"

Andromeda smiled brightly in response as she replied, "When you start baking at seven or eight years old, you pick up a couple up a couple things." Soda looked mildly interested as he attempted to fix his quarter to little effect.

Somewhere along the course of the day, it had been decided that the four of them would make a black forest cake as Andromeda like baking chocolate cakes and the Curtis family liked eating chocolate cakes. So when they made the cake, it was decided they'd hold a sort of pseudo-competition over icing it. And naturally, Andromeda decided to show off a bit of her cake making prowess and iced her part into complicated swirls which Soda had tried to copy with less success.

They'd just cut up the cake when they heard the front door open and Steve walked and called, "Hey." There was an assortment of greetings in reply as Andromeda noticed a girl who was with him. The girl was an average height with short, dark brown hair and grey-blue eyes. She wore a cropped white t-shirt, tight leather pants, stiletto heels, and quite a bit of make-up.

Soda grinned easily at the girl, "Hey Evie, I didn't know you visiting."

The girl, Evie, shrugged with a semi-bored expression on her face as she said, "I thought it was time that I came around and saw if the 'not-a-soc' was a myth or not." Soda shrugged and pointed at Andromeda as he said, "A.C.'s real alright." Andromeda raised a hand as she uttered, "Hi." Evie returned the greeting before she studied Andromeda from head to toe.

She must have not minded what she saw because she smiled and said, "How about getting away from all this ... testosterone for a bit. You know, have a girls day out?" Andromeda smiled as she ignored the mock groans she heard in the background and replied, "Sure, why not?"

True to form, Darry laid out some ground rules regarding where she should and shouldn't go, things she shouldn't do (which included drinking alcohol for some strange reason), and a time to be back by. Once Andromeda agreed (and tried not to smile at Evie's snort and eye roll), they left and headed to Jay's drive-in.

Once they'd ordered their burgers and fries, they sat down to wait. Evie leaned back and looked at Andromeda and asked, "What's it like?" Andromeda gave her a puzzled look as she queried, "What's what like?" Evie shrugged, "Being rich, moving, stuff like that." Andromeda thought for a minute before she replied, "Being rich isn't as fascinating as people think it is. For me it was attending plenty of fancy events and pretending to be interested. And moving ... well, I tried to avoid it at first, but now ..." A smile crossed her face, "I wouldn't have it any other way."

Evie looked at her approvingly as she said, "You're different than I thought." Andromeda smiled as she leaned back in her seat, "I've been getting that more lately." Evie's expression became mischievous as she said, "I get the feeling that you trying to rebel against something. I'd like to lend a hand in that."

Andromeda blinked in surprise as murmured, "Rebellion." to herself. She lifted her head a short while after as she mused, "Well, I admit that I've certainly gotten tired of living with my Aunt's rules ..." Her voice faded off as she frowned, "She demands so much, and expects everything to get followed to the 't'. Every time I can't live up to those high standards, she looks down on me. And then there's my parents ..."

Andromeda bit her lip as her hands clenched. She rarely got angry at all but ... Andromeda looked over at Evie who appeared to be waiting for an answer. A smile came across Andromeda's face as she said, "Maybe it's time I rebelled a bit."

A crafty smile wafted across Evie's face as she said, "I've got a couple ideas." The pair hurried through their meal before they set out to enact Evie's plan.

Several hours later, Andromeda made her way up the path to the Curtis' house before she let out a breath. A nervous smile sat on her face as she opened the door and called, "I'm back!" Darry immediately replied, "You're late." before he caught sight of her. His eyebrows rose as he blinked rapidly. Soda leaned past the dumbstruck Darry was an expression somewhere between surprise and admiration as he let out a low whistle. Andromeda fought to keep a neutral expression when she saw similar open-mouthed looks on Pony and Johnny.

Darry finally got how being surprised by her appearance as he demanded, "What were you thinking!? Andromeda shrugged as she caught sight of her reflection in place of the demure green dress, she had put on a short black skirt with chains which she paired with a cream blouse, a black jacket and stiletto heels. She ran a hand through her hair which had been shortened from her waist to her mid back and now included coral highlights.

Andromeda glanced at Darry as she admitted, "I decided to start my teenage rebellion."

There was a low chuckle and Dallas slid by Darry to walk to Andromeda's side with a smirk on his face. Dallas casually grabbed a lock of hair and examined it as he questioned, "Why pink?" Andromeda looked directly at him as she countered, "Why not pink?" Dallas dropped the lock of hair as he looked mostly satisfied with the response.

Darry sighed, as he looked at Evie who watched the event before her with an expression like a cat who got the cream. He eyed her suspiciously before he turned toward Andromeda as he said, "So this is your type of ... rebellion?" Andromeda shrugged in response, "It's a start." She couldn't help but smile, things were about to get more interesting.


I thought it would be good to go in a different direction than previously when Andromeda stayed relatively unaffected by her time with the gang. Hence the rebellion. Honestly I think Andromeda's version is slightly tame compared to others, but it how she would do it.

Hopefully the next chapter will get out sooner.

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