Chapter 2: Olivia's sleepover
As soon as Alicia walked in {Mrs. Torsson had decided to stay in the car} Olivia came running over.
"Hey!" she said "Emma's in my room. I told her to come early. We do not want a repeat of last time!"
Alicia nodded in agreement and followed Olivia into her room. Olivia's room was always so colorful, even though her walls were a plain sky blue color. All her acting props {or junk in Alicia's opinion} were well, everywhere. Olivia told Alicia to put her bag anywhere, but she put it just out side the doorway. She was afraid that if she left it in the room she wouldn't be able to find it again. Emma's bag was nowhere in sight.
Before they could start anything Mrs. Vertigo called the girls down for dinner. {Olivia's dad isn't home.}
Alicia loved dinner at Olivia's house. It was always exotic. Tonight Mrs. Vertigo had ordered out from three different foreign restaurants, so they'd have a variety. Olivia's mother usually ordered out. Emma's aunt usually cooked. At Alicia's house it depended. If Tancred or Mr. Torsson was having a bad day they usually went out to eat and left them to blow themselves to pieces. If they were having a good day Mrs. Torsson liked to cook.
After dinner Emma and Alicia teamed up and nearly beat Olivia to death in a pillow fight. They did the usual at girl's sleepovers {Well normal people's. No, I don't know this from experience.} They played truth or dare. Olivia always picked dare. Emma always picked truth. Alicia picked both. Olivia wanted to do makeovers, but Emma wasn't too fond of the idea and Alicia flat-out refused. They told stories and jokes and watched movies until 2 AM when they agreed to go to sleep.
Alicia had to leave at 9 and Emma at 9:30 so they set the clock for6:30. It took Alicia a little longer to fall asleep than it did her friends. {The grammar for that sentence probably isn't right, but I couldn't think of any other way to say\type it.} She thought of all the fun things she'd done since she'd met Olivia and Emma. Would they still want to include her if they knew who her real parents were? They probably thought her parents were dead.
She thought back to the conversation she'd had with Manfred on her first day.
Flashback....
"Well Miss Torsson?" Manfred had asked.
"Pintro."
"What?"
"My last name isn't Torsson, it's Pintro."
End of Flashback...
Alicia had been the only one to notice the brief smile that Manfred had gotten. Manfred knew what her real last name was. It seemed unfair that her friends didn't know who her real family was, but Manfred did. After a little while Alicia drifted off to sleep.
The next morning...
Breakfast was interesting as usual. It was the only meal that Mrs. Vertigo and Olivia insisted on cooking every time. They said that since they were the hosts they had to do something. But, it ended up as it always did.
In other words Emma and Alicia ended up cooking. The cinnamon rolls they made came out pretty good. The corn bread Olivia and her mom had made... well let's just say it was thrown out before it was tried.
After all that there was only about a half an hour left. They went up to Olivia's room and started looking through some of Olivia's acting stuff. {junk} Most of it wasn't all that great. Until Emma found a bottle that actually wasn't colorful. It must've made it easy to find.
"What's this?" she asked.
"Oh, that takes the dye out of your hair. Some of the things I use don't wash out all that well with just soap and water."
"Alicia!" called Mrs. Vertigo. "Your mother is here."
Alicia tensed ever so slightly. Mrs. Vertigo was the only person who ever called Mrs. Torsson her mother.
It was kind of strange actually. Tancred considered her his sibling, but he didn't consider his parents to be her parents. {Sorry if that's kind of confusing.}
Alicia stopped just before she left the room.
"Hey, Liv." she said "Could I borrow that?" she asked, pointing to the bottle that was still in her hand. {Olivia's hand, not Alicia's}
"Sure, do want to borrow some hair dye too?"
"Nah, I won't need it."
She left the house, leaving Olivia and Emma very confused.
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