"I heard everything-" Sarah started, but Angelica quickly put a
hand over her sister’s mouth, with her other hand, she dragged Sarah
over the doorstep back into her room.

Sarah fought her off, punching her.

"Let go off me!"

"Stop screaming!" Angelica said harshly, "Stop!"

Sarah went silent, looking up at her sister gloomily.

"Now." Angelica eyed Sarah suspicously. "What exactly did you hear?"

"You wanna sneek out and go to that party Momma T forbade you to go to."
Sarah smiled triumphantly.

Angelica sighed heavily.

"Sarah, listen, okay?" Angelica tried desperately, "Please don’t
say anything to the moms, okay? You’d be doing me the biggest favour
you can imagine…"

Sarah still smiled. Angelica knew that look.

"Okay, what do you want?" she said grumpily. "My necklace,
perfume, dress, mascara?"

"I don’t want you to be mean to me for a whole week." Sarah said.
"You can’t yell or be grumpy. Then, I won’t tell the moms a
thing."

Angelica smiled inwardly. "Allrighty, you got it." she responded.
"But!…only if, when they ask you where I went, you tell them
it was a friend’s house and NOT the party!"

"What friend?" Sarah asked.

Angelica groaned. "God…just say Patricia, okay?"

"Right." Sarah responded. She looked exited at the thought of covering up for
her sister.

"So, we got a deal?" Angelica held out her hand.

"Yup!" Sarah smiled, shaking her sister’s hand.

"Okay, then go back to bed, trouble." Angelica said, desperately
wanting to proceed with her plan before she could have a chance to
change her mind.

Sarah grinned lazily and hurried to return to her room.

Meanwhile, Angelica quietly made her way down the stairs and out of the front
door, feeling determined, yet terribly guilty.

When Angelica stepped out of the taxi 30 minutes later, she could already
hear the loud music resonating from Alex’s house. She swallowed hard
as she watched the taxi take off. A part of her wanted to drive back
home with that taxi right away and avoid any further trouble. Yet,
she also felt a strong urge to go to that party and show once and for
all that she would no longer tolerate being teased.

With that last thought in mind, Angelica walked towards the front door
purposefully.

She took a deep breath and rang the door bell, wondering if anyone would
be able to hear her over the loud beats.