Second Chances

Grandparents and Aunts and Cousins, Oh My!

"If you, two, got up, earlier," Tina sighs from the passenger seat, "you wouldn't have to get ready in the backseat."

Hana frowns and kicks her mother's chair.

"Ow!" Tina lurched forward.

Hana smiles and went back to putting her shoes on.

Robert chuckled, "Leave our daughters alone, Tina."

Hana turned to her sister with a curling wand in one hand and a straightening wand in the other, "Straight or curled?"

Nico looks at Tina, "Well, mother has hers straight..."

Hana puts down the straightening, "Curl, it is then."

Nico nodded.

Hana placed the car charger on the curling wand's wire. "Put this in..." she told Nico and Hana begins to curl her hair.

"We're here!" Robert announced as he turns the engine off.

Hana steps out of the car:

red lipstick perfectly applied, hair curled softly on her shoulders. "And you were saying?"

Robert looks at Hana, "Looking good, kid; but you do realize that we are only having lunch with your grandparents, right?"

Hana smoothed her dress, "You mean the grandparents that thinks that I'm mom's meal ticket; I'm well aware..."

"They don't hate you;" Tina reassures Hana, "they hate me... I'm the one they call 'gold-digging witch'."

"Yeah," Hana sighs, "and I am the 'gold-digging witch's meal ticket'. Can I just stay in the car?"

Nico walks towards her sister:

"Fat chance, I suffer, you have to suffer too. But seriously you came in the car looking like trash and came out looking like that; how?"