Right, so Angela's Memorial Day kind of sucked too. She'd spent half of it trying to keep her grandmother from feeding Abby every random thing on her plate, and the other half vaguely horrified by her little sister's new bikini and tanning obsession. Not to mention the way Brian Krakow kept looking at her.
"I have to call somebody!" she declared, handing the baby toff to her mom and carrying her phone into the house. "It's about, um, school."
To keep from looking like a total liar, she thumbed through her address book and -- eh, it had been a really long time since she talked to Jaye. She dialed the other girl's number.
As soon as her phone started ringing, Jaye muttered, "Oh thank god," and took the opportunity to start walking around to the front of the house. "DO NOT HAVE CAKE WITHOUT ME."
"Thank you thank you thank you," said Jaye upon answering the phone.
"Me too," Angela said, then proceeded to emodump all over Jaye. "I swear my sister is like all over this guy who was all into me in tenth grade and my grandmother keeps trying to feed the baby really weird stuff and I'm sunburned which is unfair 'cause it's, like, 60 degrees here, and -- wait. Did I ever tell you we had a baby? And what's your family doing?"
"...I have no idea," she admitted, thinking back. "Everyone's having babies, I don't even know anymore. And they're being... my family. I'm pretty sure my dad had to have swallowed a bottle of uppers before coming out here, and my brother's kissing ass, and my mom is suggesting new hairstyles on me because this one makes my face look weird. It's down. My hair is down."
"I have to call somebody!" she declared, handing the baby toff to her mom and carrying her phone into the house. "It's about, um, school."
To keep from looking like a total liar, she thumbed through her address book and -- eh, it had been a really long time since she talked to Jaye. She dialed the other girl's number.
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"Thank you thank you thank you," said Jaye upon answering the phone.
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A pause.
"Why are you thanking me?"
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And while she was figuring it out, Jaye was pulling the phone away from her ear to see who she was talking to. "And hey, Angela."
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No, Angela, you aren't talking to Zero.
"My dad hasn't left the kitchen all day. It's getting bizarre even for him."
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Woefully, she added, "I would hide in my room with the baby, except my sister claimed it like five minutes after I started college."
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