Ok, this is chapter 2. (Yeah!!!!) I don't know whether or not I will have this story finished. I hope to finish it soon, but I start school on the 30th. I am a sophomore in college and you know how that is. I would like to thank those who have given me positive reviews, I really appreciate it.

So without further ado, here is chapter 2, which is entitled: Here Comes the Bitch.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the soap opera characters in this story.

After they left the Bennetts' house, Kay, Jessica, and Simone headed over to pick up their other good friend, Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald, who lived just down the street. When Paloma was young, she was sent to Mexico City to live with her aunt, father, and stepmother. Her parents had been through a nasty divorce and her mother thought that her father should raise at least one of his kids. Paloma grew up in Mexico City and then moved to the states after she graduated from high school. Her parents both agreed that she would have better educational opportunities in America than in Mexico. Paloma still went to back occasionally to Mexico City to visit her family and her boyfriend, Roberto. She, like Simone, Kay, and Jessica, also had some connections to the Crane family. Her older brother, Luis, married Julian Crane's younger sister, Sheridan; her older sister, Theresa married Julian's son, Fox; and her father was married to Julian's mother, Katherine.

"Hola, amigos!" exclaimed Paloma as she climbed into Simone's car. "Coma esta?"

"English please?" asked Simone, completely confused, "I failed Spanish in high school."

"Yeah, and I took German." added Jessica.

"She said 'Hello, friends! How are you?'" replied Kay.

"How did you know, Kay?" asked Paloma.

"I dated your older brother, Miguel, for two and a half years. I went over to his house everyday after school, so after hanging out with your family for awhile, I picked up a few phrases."

"Oh that's right. He mentioned that once."

"Really? You talked to him?"

"Yeah, he said he moved to Miami Beach with that piece of shit that he calls a girlfriend. His girlfriend's mother teamed up with her friend, Celeste, to form some psychic hotline."

"Oh, I remember Celeste." said Jessica, "She lived in that small town called Salem with her daughter....um....what's her name......"

"Lexie." replied Kay.

"Yeah, that's it. Anyway, we knew them because Lexie's husband, Commander Carver, was an old friend of our father's from the police academy. But Celeste was crazy, always playing with her tarot cards, and talking to spirits. Who would of thought that her daughter would grow up to be a doctor?"

"So are Miguel and his whore coming back for the Founder's Day Dance?" asked Kay.

"Nope. But Mama's all excited because Theresa and Fox are coming. Plus, Roberto's flying in with them!!!" said Paloma, excitedly.

"Oh, that's nice." said Simone.

"What's wrong, Simone?" asked Jessica.

"Nothing."

"You don't have a date, either huh?" asked Kay.

"Yeah, I don't have one, but I am not gonna let it bother me."

"Well, look at it this way. Lindy probably doesn't have one."

"Kay, Lindy is a Crane. She has her pick of any guy she wants. Plus if she can't find anybody, she can easily bribe somebody."

"You have a point there."

John stepped out of the shower and threw some clothes on.

I will not think about her, he thought to himself, I will not think about her. I will think about something else. How about those Mets? No they suck. The Yankees rule!!! But Simone rules even more....Oh no I am doing it again!!!!

The doorbell interrupted his thoughts.

"John!" called Ivy, "Could you get that please?"

"Okay!" he called back.

John went to the door and opened it. "Oh it's you." he said.

"Now Johnny, is that anyway to greet your oldest and dearest friend?" asked Lindy Crane.

"Oh I'm sorry, Lindy. It's good to see you."

Lindy Crane was an old friend of John's that he had met in boarding school. Both John and Lindy had felt like they were abandoned by their families, so they had a little bit in common. Together they formed a friendship, which had blossomed into a romance. (The romance wilted away pretty quickly.) Now John and Lindy were just friends, although Lindy sometimes annoyed John with her snobbiness.

"Aren't you going to invite me in?" asked Lindy in her usual snotty tone.

"Yeah, sure. Come in."

Lindy walked over to the couch and sat down with John.

"So what's new, Lindy?" John asked.

"My nose." she replied, pointing to her face, "You like?"

"You bought a nose?"

"Well, I got a nose job, of course. It's like a rite of passage. Rebecca Hotchkiss, my ex-stepmother, got hers done for the first time when she was about my age. My older sister, Alyssa, never got her nose done cuz she thought she was beautiful the way she was. Well actually, her barbaric husband told her that, but he probably told her that cuz he's her husband and if he insulted her, she would probably leave him and take her money cuz I am sure Grandfather made him sign a prenuptial agreement."

"You know Alyssa's married to my brother, right?"

"Yeah, well, it's not your fault that you are related to that half-witted imbecile, Johnny, now is it?"

"No, it's not. So, what else have you been up to?"

"My father and his third wife, Eve, are in New York, visiting my half-brother, Trevor, their love child. So I've been staying with random people. I went to stay with Auntie Sheridan, but she completely ignored me; plus it was too crowded. Her and her taco-eating husband, have a seven year old son, a two year old son, and a newborn daughter."

"Well maybe Sheridan was too busy taking care of her kids to spend a lot of time with you."

"Well, she doesn't have to take care of her kids. They have nannies for that. Plus, Martin, the oldest, should be in boarding school by now."

"So where are you staying now?"

"I was staying with Rebecca. I like her so much better than my latest stepmother, Eve. What a freak! Anyways, Rebecca went to a spa retreat in the Caribbean to get her new Botox treatment for the Founder's Day Dance. She'll be gone for a couple of days."

"Oh."

"I can't stay with Fox because I can't stand his wife. She was so mean to Rebecca! Plus, their kid gets on my last nerve. I am not staying with Alyssa and her peasant husband because they live in a ranch house out in the country, which I don't mind, but they don't have enough room and they expected me, Melinda Francesca Crane, to sleep on some ridiculous thing called a futon!!!! As if!!! So I went back to stay in the mansion. After all, I am over eighteen and perfectly capable of being home alone. Although, I am not really alone, I have servants, but they don't count, of course."

"Um...okay.... you wanna go to the mall?"

"The mall? The cheap discount mall?"

"Well, it's not really that cheap...."

"It is not Fifth Avenue!!!!"

"Yeah, but......."

"No buts, Johnny!!!! Can you imagine what would happen if they saw me, a Crane, shopping at a discount mall??? Can you imagine what kind of rumors that might start??!!!"

"Oh hello, Melinda." said Ivy, coming into the room, "How are you, dear?"

"Don't try any of that 'mommy dearest' bull on me!!! You never gave a shit how I was!!! All you cared about was Ethan, your stupid bastard kid with your blue collar lover!!!"

"Lindy, sweetie, not today....."

"Then you go and leave Father to shack up in suburbia!! You got the whole damned family on some kind of a middle-class kick!!!"

"I don't know what you are talking about...."

"You know absolutely damn well what I'm talking about!!! You go and shack up with the police chief, then Auntie Sheridan hooks up with the maid's son, Fox marries the maid's daughter, and now Alyssa goes out in the wilderness with that Bennett bum!!!"

"I don't need this today, Lindy, I really don't."

Ivy then left the room.

"Come on, Johnny, let's go to the mall." said Lindy, turning her nose in the air.

"But I thought you said...."

"Forget what I said!!! I just remembered that they just added on a Neiman Marcus store on the first floor."

"Okay. Ivy, Lindy and I are going to the mall!" called John.

"Okay!" called Ivy back.

"I just can't stand my mother." said Lindy as she drove her golden Jaguar convertible down the street, "I swear she likes my stepsisters better than me."

"Kay and Jessica?"

"It's not just them. I have two other stepsisters on my father's side. The oldest one lives in California with her husband. I rarely see her, which is a good thing. The youngest one lives right here in Harmony and pisses me off so freaking much!!!"

"Oh really? What's her name?"

"Um...Stephanie....no, that's not it....Sarah....no, that's my niece......Sydney. Yeah, that's it Sydney."

"Oh that's nice."

"No, she's not. She is very mean and nasty."

"Oh wow. Sounds like a real bitch."

"Yeah, that's her in a nutshell."

"Haven't we done enough shopping today?" asked Paloma.

"There is no such thing as too much shopping." said Kay with a smile.

"Plus, we haven't got Simone's dress yet." put in Jessica.

"I don't need a dress. I've got plenty in my own closet." replied Simone.

"Still bummed about not having a date?" asked Kay.

"I don't care."

"Well, too bad because I know who you could go to the dance with."

"Who?"

"My half-brother, John."

"Yeah, that's a great idea, Kay." said Jessica.

"Who's John?" asked Paloma.

"My mother's son from her first marriage. He's only a couple years older than Simone and me. Anyway, he just came into town last night and he's staying with us for awhile. Simone and him met a couple of Thanksgiving and Christmases ago. He went with us on a ski trip and I noticed him checking her out."

"He was not." said Simone.

"Well, he wasn't checking out anyone else." said Jessica, "The only other girls there were Kay, Charity, and me and we are all related to him."

"Please, Simone? Go with him. Do it as a favor to me. Please?" begged Kay.

"Oh all right." said Simone.

"Look, he's over there sitting on that bench. I wonder what's he's doing here." said Jessica.

"Well, let's find out." said Kay.

John sat on the bench. God, how long can one girl take to buy a dress? he thought to himself.

"Hey John." said a voice.

John looked up. There standing in front of him were his sisters, some girl with dark hair, and Simone.

Oh lord, it's her. Okay, man, remain calm, she's just a girl. A really hot girl, but a girl.

"So how about those Mets?" said John. You idiot!

"Well I personally prefer the Red Sox, but the Mets are cool too." said Simone.

"Yeah." said Kay, "You remember Simone, right?"

"Oh yeah....um.....hi." said John.

"We came by to ask you something."

"Oh yeah, what is it?"

"Well, as you know, the Founder's Day Dance is coming up, and Simone doesn't have a date, so we were wondering if you would......"

"Oh look it's my three evil stepsisters." interrupted Lindy as she came out of the store with three bags.

"Stepsisters?" asked John.

"Yeah, Kay, Jessica, and Sydney."

"My name is Simone, for the millionth time!!!!" exclaimed Simone.

"This is your stepsister?" asked John.

"Yeah, the one I was telling you about." said Lindy, "The one you called a real bitch."

"You said what???!!!!" asked Simone angrily, fists clenched.

A/N: So that's chapter 2. Sorry if it was too long. I was just on a roll. For those who don't know, Commander Carver, Lexie, Celeste are all characters on Days of our Lives. I thought it would be funny to put them in here. I better go now and work on chapter 3, One Wild Crane Party Night. It should be up in about a week. Bye!