When Angelica came through the door she felt like she was on America's Most Wanted. Her mom, dad, and aunt were throwing her harsh scowls, and brushed past her in the most rude way. She even felt a stranger sitting on her own couch, where Susie had abruptly excused herself, glaring, from the house. So now it was just her and Kaylee.
"Dinner's ready," Her mom replied quickly as she dropped the platter on the table, which clanged loudly. The blond grimaced at the meal sitting in the kitchen: turkey slices with gravy and corn. The food her mom always made when company was over. "We'll check on you two later," Chelsea said, putting on a fake grin. Drew picked up his plate and thundered, "No funny business, Angelica."
The girl clenched and unclenched her fist around the arm of the couch. There wasn't anything funny about it.
Finally the adults picked up their plates and stalked back to the guest room to watch some family television. Angelica squirmed uncomfortably, trying to get used of the fact she was sitting next to her own blood, her sister. She stood and scrambled over to the kitchen chairs, plopping down into one. "Well, you gonna eat or what?" She grumbled, slanting her purple eye shadowed eyes at the younger girl.
"Oh! Uh-huh." The brunette cheerfully replied, sprinting out the living room and sitting next to Angelica. As an afterthought, she stuck one leg out and pushed herself closer. The blond groaned. Still she prepared her food on one of the plates and dropped it messily in front of the eight year old. Kaylee grinned at her, showing a missing front tooth. Uh, she was sickeningly cute. "Thank you Angelica." The girl flapped a hand at her as if to say, 'whatever'.
They began eating their food, slowly, studying each other with thoughtful faces. Halfway through the meal, after she stopped pushing her last turkey slice through the soup of gravy and corn, Kaylee let her fork clatter to the plate. Angelica's eyes darted over.
"You like dolls?" Kaylee fumbled with her chubby hands, stumbling over her words. "'Cause I gotsa lot, big baby dolls and stuffed animals with cool hair stuff and they're washable and real dolls like Cynthia."
Corn went everywhere while the blue faced teen coughed, scaring the living daylights out of Kaylee. Angelica placed a hand over her throat before staring hard at the girl, whimpering, "What?"
She squirmed. "Like Cynthia. I don't have many, but she's my favorite kind of doll. I like the Summertime Party Cynthia." The blond bit her lip, sighing. The brunette looked down, knowing something childish like Cynthia wouldn't interest her big sister. "I don't care about dolls, kid, specially not Cynthia, or whatever." Kaylee cocked her head, wondering why her voice wavered so hard and she kept biting her lip. Even so the kid got up, nodded, and rinsed her plate, dashing back to the living room to watch cartoons.
The teen snickered. "Dolls. Cynthia. Who cares?"
Kaylee didn't hear Angelica begin to whimper again.
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"So she totally hates her?" Kimi squeaked, almost dropping her bag of wedge heels she bought from The Shoe Department. Susie nodded, untangling a strand of brown hair from her headband, deciding it might be time for a perm. "Angelica thinks the kid is spoiled and so she hates her."
Kimi rolled her eyes, placing her hands on her hip. "Figures."
Kimi and Susie were at the mall, just deciding randomly to go shopping this afternoon on Saturday. Out of all her young friends Susie liked Kimi the most, there was just some kind of mature ness about her that made them connect. When she was around the Asian girl she could treat her like one of her own crew.
The purple haired girl shifted two of her four bags onto her right arm. "That's sad, though. My family met Kaylee a few days ago. She is such a sweetie, a li'l chunky but that just adds to the cuteness." Her face lit up. "I invited her to come over as many times she liked. I swear it feels like we're sisters ourselves!"
"Me too!" Susie exclaimed, and the girls burst out laughing. Both of them had a few too many energy drinks before leaving The Java Lava. Finally they came down from their 'high', and settle into some benches to catch their breath.
"Seriously Suse," Susie looked up to stare into the surprisingly straight face of her friend. "Angelica is trying harder than we give her credit for, I mean being accepting with that kind of personality, yeesh." The girl snorted.
The black girl rolled her eyes. "She needs to grow up. I really wish Angelica wouldn't be such a brat."
"That's enough, Susie!" Jumping, the sixteen year old blinked crazily at Kimi. She continued. "She is! I mean she's dealing with having another sister this late in her life, you can't blame her for having mixed emotions. She trusts you dearly, Susie, and it's wrong for you to be talking about her like that."
She raised and eyebrow, wondering if the little girl was serious talking to her like that, but she gaped at the deadpan angry expression on the Asian girl's face. Finally she let loose a sigh, throwing her arm around her friend's neck. "I've been so selfish lately, Kimi. You're right."
Susie loved Kimi to death, but sometimes her sense of justice could get annoying. Still, without her, who would tell her right from wrong? Certainly not herself.
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Tada! Another finished! I'm on a roll. So yeah, this one was probably a pointless chapter, but maybe another day of school will get the ol' brain working. It's coming along folks!