Mona of Dreamweaver (Book 1 of The Sisterhood Trilogy)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Again I spent the night in the extravagant mansion. This time, I actually had lunch and dinner. Kyle looked really happy to see me when I walked through the door again. Somehow, I felt at home. I had a comfortable feeling. The atmosphere was different from the first and second day. I’ve spend a week in their house, without any news on what they were going to do with me. I wanted to know. I wanted to be sure of my future. I knew that they were talking about it. They were the type of people that had to have everything solved. The type that didn’t sit idly.

I was Saturday afternoon, when there was some commotion downstairs. I was in my room, reading a book. Of course, who wouldn’t be curious about what was going on, so I crept into the hall and looked over the railing to see what was happening. I saw a tall blonde woman in her mid 40s walking into the living room. She was dressed in tall silver stilettos and a tight, hot pink halter dress. She kind of looked like a Barbie doll. It gave me the shivers. I’ve seen these types of people in movies. They were preppy and snobby. I wondered if the movies always exaggerated or it was like that in real life. Maybe I’ll be able to find out.

“Stacy, darling, how are you?” the woman said hugging Stacy who just walked into the living room.

“Hello Sara,” Stacy said hugging the woman back. Sara, I had heard that name before. Pushing the thought back, I continued to watch their exchange.

“What brings you here?” Stacy asked sitting on a couch.

“I heard some news today, when I stopped by your office,” Sara said crossing her legs as she sat in front of Stacy.

“News?”

“Why didn’t you tell me you were adopting?”

I saw Stacy take a deep breath as if trying to hold herself from rolling her eyes.

“Well, we wanted to make sure we were going to be ok with it before we announced it in society.”

“Oh darling, you know I would never tell something you didn’t want me to.”

”Mhm.”

“Well, I don’t know what to say about this. I mean, I know you’ve been trying for a long time to have children, but adoption? How old is the child?”

“15.”

“15? Stacy what were you thinking? 15 is an age that you can’t really teach them anything. They are rebellious and don’t listen to you. Especially children that you don’t know anything about. Where is the child from?”

”China.”

“Even better. A totally different culture. Have you lost your mind?”

“Sara? You know that I don’t make rash decisions. I thought about it for a long time. I wanted a child and so did Kyle. We decided to adopt. I wanted to adopt a boy from China, instead I got a girl. Well this whole week I’ve thought about it. At first I wanted to give her back or give her to someone else, but for now, I think I’ll give it a chance and put her on trial.”

The whole time Stacy was talking, Sara’s facial expressions changed so abruptly and vividly, it was hard to keep from laughing. Even then, I heard everything Stacy said. I felt excitement. I was here on a trial basis. That meant if I did good, I would be able to stay forever. I felt like Sara would want to meet me, so I decided to walk down stairs, pretending to go into the kitchen for a glass of water. As I reached the living room, Stacy noticed me.

“Kai Lin, please come in here.” I did as asked.

“Hello,” I said politely to Sara. I saw shock written all over her. She scanned my appearance, then slowly looked over at Stacy.

“You have totally lost it Stacy.”

”Why?”

“Look at her. She’s skinny, her sense of style is awful. All that black clothes. And the hair. Can she even see anything through it? She looks like a depressed gothic teenager.”

“Sara.”

”Am I wrong?”

I knew that my appearance wasn’t appealing. I knew that I looked like a goth and that my hair was in my face. But I had a good reason for all this. It was one thing when I knew this myself, but it was another when someone, who didn’t know my past and reasoning. Anger ran through me. I was usually and calm person and didn’t get angry easily. I felt that this wouldn’t end well, but I couldn’t stop myself.

“How dare you!! How could you say something like that to my face without knowing anything about me? How can you just assume things about a person without knowing reasoning for a person’s actions?”

“Kai Lin?” Stacy warned. I ignored her. The button was already pushed.

“From the moment I saw you I knew that you were just like those Barbie doll type people they show in the movies. Preppy and snobby. Why don’t you grow up and behave like an adult instead of a prancing teenager.”

I felt my eyes stinging. Tears started rolling down my face as I ran out of the room, through the back door and into the rose garden outside. I could hear Stacy calling me and Sara’s furious voice saying she will never come back here as long as I was here, because she didn’t appreciate being insulted. Oh yeah? Well I didn’t appreciate it either. Several minutes later, I heard Stacy’s heels clicking on the garden path. I felt her presence as she sat down next to me on the bench.

“Kai Lin, I’m very disappointed in you. How could you speak like that to Sara? She’s my best friend.”

Oh yeah, I remembered. Sara, Sara Fryer, her name was mentioned in the car the first day I was here.

“I just decided to let you stay here on a trial and you have to make that scene. Did I make the wrong decision? Did I make a wrong judgment about you?”

“I don’t know what your judgment of me was. But if you think you did, then I guess you should just send me somewhere.”

“I can see through you Kai Lin, I know that you aren’t the kind of person to hold grudges. And you’re also not the type of person to insult someone. So why don’t you dry your eyes and let’s go and apologize to Sara.”

“Never. She doesn’t deserve an apology.”

”Kai Lin.”

”No, she doesn’t have the right to judge a person she met for the first time in her life.”

“Sara is like that. She likes to say what she thinks, before even thinking it over. It is a good quality.”

“Well, then, you can send me to that twins and triplets woman then,” I said and walked away into the house.