Lurking

Chapter 5

Looper couldn't help Sia and Brook, but he gave them a plan and helped as much as he could. Ms. Hezara was awake and was going to howl her might to get their lazy butts down at the kitchen. He quickly snuck out, only a few minutes before Ms. Hezara barged in like a raging bull. Smoke and flames came out of her ears and eyes, and Brook and Sia gave a sour face.

"YOU BOTH BETTER COME DOWN!" Ms. Hezara bellowed. "WHY CAN'T YOU BE JUST LIKE LIANA?"

Sia and Brook just shrugged because they couldn't understand their mother's last sentence. But without another warning, they both jumped to their feet and quickly ran down the stairs, only to be greeted by a grumpy Liana.

"How lazy can you both get?" Liana sighed in disbelief. She stopped tapping her foot, and ordered them to make her mother tea and make Liana a scrambled egg.

Sia and Brook got right to work. But when Sia went to grab the eggs, Liana stopped her halfway.

"Wait," Liana rasped.

Sia raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Don't tell me you don't understand," Liana pouted. She then slapped Sia across her face, leaving her a big crimson mark.

Sia lied there, on the floor. Her right hand held where Liana slapped her. She felt goo on her, only to realize it was the egg she dropped.

"Why did you do that?" Sia questioned her sister. "You are filthy! All you ever do is sit there and look pretty like your Mother!"

Liana looked hurt. Sia did, too. She cared about her sister and loved her, and didn't mean to say that. 

"I'm sorry," Sia apologized.

Liana gave her a crooked smile, while Brook just ignored all of the drama, she didn't like to hear it or look at it.

"It's ok," Liana said softly.

Sia looked shocked. Did she just not yell at me? Sia thought.

Liana and Sia smiled at each other, and Brook joined in, the tips of her mouth lighting up.

They were enjoying that small cherished moment of her sister, when Ms. Hezara ruined it.

"You--Liana," Ms. Hezara snapped at her.

"Leave her alone," Sia snapped back. "You have never been the boss. All you ever did was make me and Brook suffer."

Liana gave a fake smile at Ms. Hezara, and she went ballistic on her.

"And you think the same?" Ms. Hezara rasped.

"Maybe I was hurt by Sianna's words. But that's real. It's true. What Sianna told me was true," Liana uttered. She got to her feet and went into the fridge to grab something. It was an egg. She threw it in Ms. Hezara's face, and left, with Sia and Brook following her upstairs to her room, spitting at Ms. Hezara when they walked passed her.

Sia turned to Ms. Hezara. "Oh, and Ms. Hezara, clean up the mess." Sia put up the loser sign, and erupted into laughter on the way to Liana's room.

Liana's room was decorative, and was very stunning, unlike Sia and Brook's room.

"What made you change?" Sia asked her eldest sister.

"The truth," Liana replied. "You were right all this time, it was me that refused to listen to the nonsense. But that nonsense was the truth."