Chapter 1: Allison
...I Immediately Stormed outside, my pink flip flops squeaking loudly in the pouring rain, my pretty summer outfit getting completely soaked.
I was in the middle of a quarrel with my mother. She had been arguing with me lying about me stealing her jewelry. I kept telling her I didn't steal anything, although I had a past history of stealing. Of course, she didn't believe me. I was trying to get her to understand and believe that I changed my stealing behaviors a long time ago, being at the age of 13. I was now 15.
"Mom, why don't you believe anything I say?!" I was screaming from my lungs. "I can convince you that I've changed! If you can blame anyone, blame it on Allison. She steals you're stuff like no one is watching!"
Allison was my older sister. She was 17-years-old. She was also a sneaky little thief in our house. Whenever our parents go off to work at 9:00 in the morning Allison is wide awake.
Allison does her daily morning routine and goes straight down the stairs, walks across the kitchen, and heads straight into our parents' bedroom. She also keeps a key with her----a key that my parents gave her in the past when I had been stealing lipstick from our mother's makeup stand she keeps on her dresser.
It was yesterday when I had awoken from my sleep and I had crept down the stairs and caught her.
" Allison," I call from the top of the stairs gazing down at her. "what are you doing?"
Allison looks up at me like a deer in headlights. She knew she had been caught. "Umm..." She quickly searches for a way out before any confrontation could rise to the surface by spinning around and walking into the kitchen, opening up the refrigerator door pretending to find something to eat.
I slowly walk down the stairs.
Allison pulls out some milk and goes to the cabinet and takes out a cereal box. " It's breakfast time, Alexa. How do you like your cereal?" And if things couldn't get more awkward than that she flashes her famous pretty smile at me.
Deciding not to fall for one of her devious tricks this time I move closer so that we were face-to-face.
"Allison, I know what you're up to. You can't hide this forever."
She backs up a little. " What are you talking about? I'm not even doing anything wrong yet."
" Stop playing games with me, Allison." I snarled. " I know what you're about to do."
She crosses her arms and chuckles out a haughty laugh. "Okay then," she says. She's practically giving herself away and she's not realizing it! "what am I about to do?"
"You got mom's key." I explain. "You're going to open up the door and you're going to take something, like you always do."
And just as things could get any worse she shrugs her shoulder at me. She bursts out laughing! "Alexa, my sweet little sister, Alexa," She pats my hair roughly as if I'm a dog and gives me a kiss on the cheek. Unbelievable! " I'm actually about to eat some breakfast, if you don't mind. Why don't you have some with me?"
Okay that was it. I was not going to stand here and be fooled, let alone be one.
I declined the offer and went back upstairs. Definitely deciding not to go back to sleep I carried myself on to the bathroom and took a shower. My opportunity of catching my sister stealing was not going to go to waste today.
I brush my teeth and threw on some khaki shorts and a flowered tee shirt. I make my way downstairs to find something to eat when all of a sudden I stop dead in my tracks and freeze. And what do you know, the door was open!
Bingo!
Without hesitation I rush downstairs, excited. I also took the opportunity to examine inside the room to see if anything was out of place. Nope. The light wasn't on so I really couldn't see anything. But I did hear some rambling going on in our parents' big walk-in closet.
I edged my ear closer to the door so I could hear clearly what was actually going on but I instantly snatched myself back when I heard hurried footsteps coming closer towards me.
Instantly alarmed, I turned my head back to see a laughing Allison gawking at me. Okay. I was now totally confused. What the heck?
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