From Rags To Riches

Chapter 13

After a brief introduction Andrea had the idea of going shopping and she also decided to buy clothes for me since my one bag of clothing was unacceptable for her. She invited Mai and Claire but they politely declined, saying they wanted to play some video games with their brothers.

"Alright we're going to get you some clothes because 1, we're going to be on national TV and we all gotta look good, and 2 I feel horrible looking at your tiny luggage and then I have like 50 bags," she stated as we walked out of the mansion, sending a text to Logan about where we were heading.

"Um, okay where are we going? Usually I just share with my sisters or when we have like, no clothes we head over to Goodwill," I asked.

Andrea stopped in her tracks before putting her phone away, her eyes going wide and she looked at me, a quizzical look on her face.

"What? Okay okay, hold up. Here's my first question about you guys since I don't know much about you or your brother anyways. Why does Tiffany call you guys dumpster babies? I mean yeah, I know you guys aren't like rich but c'mon middle class can't be that bad. Right?"

I took a deep breath, thinking about what I was about to tell her.

"Well we're not middle class, we're at the very bottom, scraping together change everyday in order to survive..."

And with that, I was finally able to tell someone the real story of my family's life.

***

After telling Andrea everything, and answering a few of questions she decided that she was not only buying for me, but also my siblings and mother despite my protests.

She had taken me to the mall and after finding out and guessing everyone's correct sizes she had begun to shop. Every once in a while she'd hold up an article of clothing and ask me what they would think. Doing my best I showed her what type of style my brothers and sisters were more drawn to. Andrea did her magic and found things for eveyone, including my mother.

We ended up going to about 10 different stores and carried way too many bags to count.

"You really don't have to do this. I mean, I don't know how I'll repay yo-" I said, cutoff mid sentence.

"Really it's fine." She added after thinking, "Besides I wanted to know if you could help me with something, or more like, give me some information on your brother. Can you?"

Andrea pursed her lips, leading us towards a vending machine. As she put her money in I thought about her request.

What could she possibly want to know about Jake?

"Sure I guess. What do you need to know?" I finally answered.

"Um... has he ever like, mentioned me at all to you?" she asked nervously, twirling a strand of golden hair on her finger.

"Not really, what do you me- OH MY GOD DO YOU LIKE MY BROT-"

Andrea spun around her face red, muffling my voice by placing her hands over my mouth she said," Shhh shhh shh. It's okay, calm down. It was just a question. Just a tiny bit, possibly. It depends. Now, I'm going to let go of you but you need to promise me you won't shout, alright?"

Slowly I thought about it before nodding. As she let go I shouted, " I KNEEWWWW IT!"

Needless to say, she glared at me. As we were about to leave a shrill voice pierced our ears.

"EMMA! Get me a Starbucks. You know what I like. And be quick about it!" Tiffany said, disobeying the inside voice rule.

"Oh joy."

***

She was here meaning that someway, somehow, she had managed to convince the judges to let her enter the show.

"Just walk by and hope she doesn't notice," Andrea offered, arranging her bracelets and standing a bit taller. She calmly walked passed and headed towards the exit, with me behind her.

I walked passed Tiffany before hearing her sneer, "Oh look the dumpster quartet is here."

My face flushed for a second, I couldn't look that bad could I? I had changed into an outfit we had just gotten, some black skinny jeans with a teal lace tank top, courtesy of Andrea.

We left the mall, Andrea driving us back to the rest of the bands. Once she parked the car we took our bags out the back and walked inside. Instantly we were greeted by a tremendous amount of gunk all over the walls, ceiling, and basically everything. Jake, Logan, Carter, Mai, Claire and a guy with shaggy black hair who I could only assume was Matt were in the middle of the kitchen, batter, chocolate chips and eggs all over themselves. They saw us and instantly froze, their eyes wide.

"Hehe, hey guys. What's up?" Jake asked, laughing uncomfortably as a pile of batter fell from the ceiling and landed on his hair.

***

Author's Note:

Chapter 13 is up!

I'm sooo sorry I haven't been posting lately it's just school, and life get in the way. I have like a minimum amount of time for writing which is why thus chapter is a lot shorter than usual. Oh well, enough of my excuses.

Andrea and Jake huh? Who here saw that coming? *raises hand* I think they would make a cute couple. XD

Liz and Andrea get a little bonding time, we all get to see a less... angry side of Andrea.

I really want to know how many people read these authors notes so please answer my questions of the day. I wanna get to know all y'all!

Question of the Day:

What do you wanna be when you grow up?

I wanna be a psychologist, you know helping people, making them feel better. Either that or like, a counselor.. I'm not sure. Although if I do become either I'm not gonna give up writing.

(Incase you didn't like that question I came up with another)

Do you prefer rainy days, snowy day, or sunny days?

I LOVE rainy days. It just wakes me up and makes me feel like a little kid again (even though my friends all agree I have the mind of a 5 year old).

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-Britney

P.S. Here is a picture of Liz played by Shailene Woodley.