"I'll never let you get away with this!" Courtney yelled as she grabbed her little sister in one arm and dragged her boyfriend toward her car with the other.
Courtney opened the backseat door and placed her little sister on the seat and shut the door.
"What are you doing Princess?" Duncan found himself asking her as he sat in the passenger seat and buckled his seatbelt before Courtney floored the gas and sped away from her old house.
"Getting her away from them." Courtney said with such venom in her mouth that Duncan thought she must have gone off the deep end.
"She's your sister, not your kid. You don't have responsibilities toward her." Duncan said, noting how Courtney's face gained a slight tinge of red when he said that she was her sister.
"Sissy, where are we going?" Carmen asked Courtney from the backseat.
"We're going to my apartment," Courtney said which shocked Duncan greatly. Since when has Princess had her own apartment?
"You have an apartment?" Duncan questioned her.
"Yes, of course I do. Do you think I want to live with those people all the time?"
"Well no, but—"
"Just shut it Duncan, ok?" Courtney said to him, leaving him hurt and shocked by her sudden change in attitude.
"Duncan, sissy and I used to stay at her apartment when I was little. (AN I have changed how old Carmen is to fit the story, she is actually 6 years old and Courtney/Duncan are 21)" Carmen said to Duncan, "But only when I was really little, before she went on the show."
"That's cool," Duncan said. He sat there still as stone, upset with how his girlfriend was acting. That was, until he saw the apartment they pulled up in front of.
"You live here Princess?" Duncan asked as he stared at the run down apartments.
"Yeah, so?"
"I just didn't expect that, that's all."
Courtney pulled into her parking space and turned off the car. She stepped out of it and opened the backseat for Carmen. Duncan stepped out of the car and walked over toward hi girlfriend.
"Hey, Courtney, what's wrong?" Duncan whispered in her ear.
"I'll tell you inside, alright?" Courtney said as she grabbed his hand and grabbed her little sister's hand with the other. Courtney walked them up to her apartment, and opened the door. Duncan was stunned as he looked at Courtney's compulsively neat apartment; it actually was rather nice on the inside compared to how trashed the outside looked.
"Nice apartment Princess," Duncan said in all sincerity. The apartment was a modern black and white styled apartment with black and white floral couches. She also had a small plasma screen TV and a work desk with a black and white striped Mac laptop.
"Thanks, c'mon I'll show you around." Courtney replied with a small smile on her face.
"Sissy, do you still have my room?" Carmen asked with an innocent smile on her face.
"Of course I do sweetheart," Courtney said to her little sister as she walked the little girl to her room.
"Look at all my new clothes!"
"Yup, I told mom that I wanted you to stay here during the school year this year so I got you all new clothes, book bags, and some new toys also."
"Thank you sissy!" Carmen yelled as she jumped onto her bed that had pink striped print sheets and pink poke-a-dot covers. Duncan and Courtney exited the little girls room and headed toward the master bedroom. It was decorated the same way as the rest of the house and had a bathroom that led off of the bedroom.
"So, Princess, tell me why you're acting this way." Duncan said as he pulled Courtney by the hand and sat on her bed.
"She's not my sister, she's……"
