"Angelica…."

Rubbing her eyes hard, the blond teen sat up in bed, mumbling fiercely about who she was going to kill. When she opened her eyes she saw her little sister staring back at her wearing a pink nightgown, and she had her head down and was stepping back and forth nervously. "I-I didn't want to wake you…" The girl mumbled as her dark hair covered her chubby cheeks. "The doorbell rang and mom and daddy said to get you."

Angelica sprang to her feet, rudely pushing the girl onto the floor and dashed down the hallway and nearly lost her ankles rolling down the stairs. Cursing silently to herself, she raised on aching legs and crept to the door, which surprisingly was already open. And none other than Susie was standing in the doorway, in her pajama pants and shirt, curly hair sticking straight up.

"Um, hey, Angie," The black girl spoke softly and uncertainly, looking nervous as all get out. "Could I.." She stuck a thumb outside, just as a freezing breeze of morning air blasted in and cooled both of them. "Talk to you outside?" Angelica blinked at her slowly, but dragged her feet onto the cement porch, plopping her pale legs into the wicker chair and gazing at the girl plainly. Susie just stared at her. "What?" The girl snapped, then looked around the short space. Closing her eyes she thundered, "You better stand!"

Susie grabbed her light red shirt tight as she silently fumed, and tried to control the flow of her voice as much as possible before she went off on her 'friend'. "Look, I've been thinking. Well more like Kimi." She laughed and Angelica rolled her eyes, crossing her legs and shivered more violently, as her old cheerleading shorts didn't cover much past her waist. So the black girl continued. "I gotta be honest with you, I thought you were being spoiled and acting like a baby because of Kaylee. But Kimi made me realize what you're truly going through. I hadn't looked at it from your point of view." She smiled inside at the gaping form of her friend. "So, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm sorry. Very sorry. You're stronger than I thought you were."

"Kimi said this?" Angelica questioned, leaning forward in the chair. Typical she'd ignore the apology. Still Susie nodded. "Yep. At the mall yesterday." The blond teen sat on the chair with her head in her hands, mumbling to herself. Suddenly, as Susie turned to leave, she stood and put a hand on her shoulder. "If you woke up this early to give me your revelation," She joked, "I think we can both go and talk to Kimi. Whaddya think?"

Might as well, the sixteen year old thought to herself, and shrugged. Grinning the now happy friend snatched her hand and tugged her down the street, claiming, "It's only like a block away!"

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"I will kill you dead," Kimi threatened groggily as she stood on the porch of her house, looking like a corpse wearing a white nightgown, her face sunk. Susie backed up while Angelica pushed forward, pointing at her, "You said all that mess about me going through hard times? Or whatever?" Kimi questioned Susie with her eyes and the girl nodded slowly, so the Asian girl barely moved as she muttered, "Yeah I guess so."

And just like that, the older teen gave her a ferocious bear hug. "Woooah, are you like, hugging me?" Kimi babbled, giving Susie a surprised look. The sixteen year old was just standing against a beam to the house and smiling smugly. "There's been a lot of weird things going on lately." Was her unacquainted answer. Wide eyed, the black haired girl pushed Angelica away, who was smiling with a devious look in her eyes. "I really don't want this girl in my life, so you know I won't be nice to her."

As both of them frowned she put up her hands in defense, smirking wider. "But I want her to feel welcome in my house. Er, our house. So who's all for a little party?" Kimi jumped up and down squealing while Susie did a 'raise the roof' sign with her hands. "Great! We'll think about it later on today. Something tells me we need to get to sleep," Angelica frowned.

Just as Chuckie was coming across the room holding a mop.

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Well there you go, so sorry for the delay in this story! I've forgotten all about it and now I'm back with it, so if I could get more suggestions for this in a review I can put them in the story!