Love hates.

Chapter 3

I arrived home from a tiring day at school. I reached for my keys from my pocket from my jeans. I opened the door, went from the foyer to my kitchen and hanged my keys. I went to the living room seeing Marie and Ariana.

"Hi Marie." I said.

"Hey Malerie." she greeted.

"Was Ariana a handful today?"

"No she was behaving pretty well."

"You guys talk about me like I'm a five year old. Just because you babysit me doesn't mean I'm a kid." Ariana said.

"You sure do act like one." I said.

"I do not!" she said.

I rolled my eyes.

"Well I think I'm gonna go now."
she said grabbing her stuff.

"Okay bye" I said.

"Bye" Ariana said turning on the TV.

"Bye guys!" Marie shouted entering the foyer.

Once she went out the door I went up my stairs to my room, leaving Ariana downstairs watching TV.

I dropped my backpack to the ground and took out my phone. I went to go check my notifications. And like always I had nothing but I don't mind, it's not like I expect notifications all the time from people talking to me.

After twenty minutes on being on social networks I heard my mom arriving downstairs. I forced my self to get out of my hole called my bed. I put on my exercising shorts and a grey loose T shirt. And put my hair up in a messy bun.

I padded my way downstairs, and saw my mom in her pajamas. I guess it's just a habit that my mom that stuck both me and Ariana in the habit of doing it. I guess you could call it our little family tradition.

"Hi mom" I said

"Hello, what would you like to eat today?" she said while reading the newspaper. My mom is very strict and formal with the way she treats me and Ariana, as you can tell.

"Um, do you feel like cooking today?" I said.

"No do you?" she said.

"No I don't." I said.

"Go ask Ariana what she wants to eat and decide something please."

"Okay." I said. Me and my mom don't really have that mother and daughter bonding relationship. It's like she's never out of her working attitude mode. Of course I can't say she's not a horrible mother because she's always been providing the best for me and Ariana, but she's not always been like this she was never in her serious working attitude when dad was around but of course that all changed when he left. Ariana always has thought that mom was always like this because she never met dad. When my dad left my mom she told us that she didn't tell my dad she was pregnant, so yes my dads out there in the world thinking he only left one child behind. I have no contact with my dad and I have no idea whats going on in his life. When this was happening I was a child and yes I was furious at my dad for just leaving like that, plus cheating on my mom but as years go by I think I'm slowly forgetting about my dad but that doesn't mean I'm still not mad at him.

"May I help you?" Ariana said.

"What do you want for dinner?"

"I don't know, Chinese?"

"Okay."

I called for an order at a local Chinese place and ordered our usual when we order Chinese.
The doorbell rang 15 minutes later. I grabbed the bag and told my mom and Ariana that the food arrived.

We all ate at the dinner table talking about our daily things like school, how the food tasted, moms work, and Marie's babysitting. We were still eating when the phone rang, and my mom cleaned her hand with a napkin and walked to the phone and answered it.

We couldn't make out what mom was saying because she was in the other room and her voice was muffled out by the wall between us.
All I heard was "Of course we will, how swell!!" I bet it was some sort of work invitation party me and Ariana would be forced to go to.

While we were eating watched Ariana roll her eyes and say "I bet someone invited her to some sort of formal party."

I sighed "Yeah that was what I was thinking too."

Ariana stabbed her teriyaki chicken and ate it roughly.

"Man, why do people even invite the whole family anyways they just appreciate that were there with her and try to compliment us and then just ignore us the rest of the 'party'" she said annoyed.

"I know right." I said.

My mom hung up the phone and made her way to her seat. "Okay kids I have great news!" she said excited.

"What is it." I said as Ariana in front of me kept eating annoyed, almost finishing her food.

"Well were going to have new neighbors across the street. She offered me to help her unpack her things tomorrow. And me being the wonderful person I am," she said flipping her shoulder length brown hair back; something she only does when she's nervous. "said that I would bring my family with me to go help her unpack." She finished off.

My eyes went wide.

"You did what?!" me and Ariana said at the same time.

"No, no, no, no, mom, no, I will not help strangers put away there packages. Plus who even asks for that kind of stuff mom, they could be murderers for all we know mom!" Ariana said rapidly.

"Yeah and I have plans tomorrow with Valerie, and it is Saturday tomorrow, the two days I get to sleep in so no thank you." I said following with what Ariana said.

"Oh come on, don't make up excuses, look I'm sure we can all work this out." She looked at Ariana and said "Ariana I'm pretty sure the neighbors are completely harmless. Look I know a bit the lady and she's a wonderful person I just want you guys to go meet them and get to know them." my mom said with a smile in the last sentence. Then she turned her attention to me.

"And Malerie, it is indeed in the morning on a Saturday. But if you do go tomorrow I promise I'll let you sleep in tomorrow until one or when ever you want to wake up on Sunday. And then you can tell Valerie you can hang out with her later in the afternoon okay?" She looked at both of us.

"Fine" I mumbled.

Ariana sighed. "There's no getting out of this is there?"

My mom shook her head

"Fine" Ariana said.

I then told Valerie later, that If she could move our hangout for a little later in the afternoon and she said it was okay with her.

So looks like I'll be going.

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AUTHORS NOTE
Okay I feel like that last paragraph sucked and that ending was horrible so I apologize lol.

And I've decided I'm going to post maybe two or three times a week so yeah. And don't be afraid to comment let me know what you guys think.

Oh and I think this will be the last chapter talking about Malerie's life and past so I guess this is the part when the story takes off and gets going.