Rachel walked into the apartment as quietly as she could but when she her an unfamiliar female voice she decided to just walk into the living room and see who it was. In the living room she saw her father drinking a beer and a woman smoking a cigarette. Rachel was disgusted.

"Rachel where have you been?" He father said sternly interrupting Rachel's thoughts.

"Umm... I was... Who is she?" Rachel said pointing to the strange women.

"She is Lacy." Said the lady with a cigarette standing up walking towards Rachel. Rachel being relatively small was being towered over by the lady. "That's a nice dress. Who bought it?" Lacy said meanly.

"None of your business." Rachel said glaring at her.

"You better stop before I slap that glare right off your face." Trigon said entering the conversation and Rachel began to feel outnumbered and outmatched. "Where did you get that dress?" Trigon said suspiciously and Rachel began to walk away, but Trigon grabbed her hair and Rachel let out a small scream. "Shut up, and answer me."

"Richard's mom got it for me." Rachel answered.

"You are pathetic." Trigon said letting Rachel go. "Go get us another round of drinks then go to bed." Rachel nodded and went to the Kitchen. Trigon went back to the couch and Lacy just smirked at Rachel.

"You should get use to me Rachel, I think I will be around here for awhile." Lacy said grabbing the drinks from Rachel and pushing her out the way. Rachel ran to her room and changed out her dress into a tank and sweatpants. Rachel curled up in the covers and grabbed her phone and she called Richard.

"Hello" Richard answered.

"Hey, Sorry to bother you But I just wanted to talk."

"It is no bother at all. is everything okay?"

"No." Rachel said holding back tears but Richard could tell in her voice that she was sad.

"Did he hurt you?" Richard asked panicked.

"No. He is trying to replace my mom. And is it that obvious that I can't afford the dress I wore tonight." Rachel said and Richard laughed at the last part.

"Well first it is kinda obvious because you do not wear fancy clothe and some people know your history and infer you don't have money. But that doesn't matter. You need to stop listening to all these people. Second, no one can replace your mom."

"He is trying to."

"Who cares about him. Your father is... is..." Richard was trying to be careful with his words not wanting to hurt Rachel's feeling.

"A jerk" Rachel finished.

"Yeah that works." They both laughed. "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"I'm going Christmas shopping."

"What?" Richard asked surprised.

"Yes, I'm going to get you something special. You deserve it. You have given me so much I want do something for you.

"You don't have to do that."

"But I want too."

"You do not need to, and I know you want to but I don't want you to spend..."

"Stop." Rachel said cutting him off. "Its not fair that you spend all this money on me and I can't do something nice for my boyfriend."Richard sighed knowing that he would not win the argument. After talking about the gifts Richard told Rachel about what he wanted to do in the future and she smiled listening to his hopes and dreams. Then Richard would try and make her laugh. After hours of being on the phone Rachel was beginning to fall asleep, and Richard wished her a good night.

In the morning Rachel left for the mall. She was able to get out of the house not waking up her father and Lacy. She began her long walk to the mall and once she arrived there were millions of people walking around with bags and boxes doing last minute christmas shopping. Rachel went into store after store looking at hats,clothing, shoes, and cologne, but she could not find anything. Finally Rachel came across a watch and when she saw it she thought it would be perfect for Richard. Rachel picked up the watch and saw the price tag and put it right back down. Rachel sighed looking around. Rachel was looking for something else to buy, but she noticed there was no one around. Rachel went back to her old ways and she sneakily slid the watch into her purse with no one seeing. or so she thought. Rachel turned from the watch department and began walking out the store like nothing happened, but before she could reach the exit a hand came down on her shoulder.

"Not so fast." A big security guard said.

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