Trapped with a Doctor

"What am I doing?" squawked Lulu. "I'm trying to get past. Why are you getting the way?" Lulu focused her disapproval on Angela and slipped two pairs of disposable slippers on the ground for her and Nita.

Angela tried to mellow her painful arm by rubbing it. 'Take it easy, ' she reminded herself. 'She's only Arvin's sister. Don't get mad. Take a breather.'

When the entry was sealed shut, Lulu stood in front of Angela, browsing her pajamas up and down. "It boggles me why you think you could ever hold a candle to Nita. You're a little girl. When I see Arvin I'm going to ask him, 'Why let this riffraff in?'

Angela pulled a resentful face. "Riffraff? Little girl? Well, you're a little girl too! Go ahead and ask your brother if you think you're so great."

Lulu couldn't believe in her ears. "My god! How arrogant you are! Do you know Who I am?"

"Of course, I do! You are Arvin's sister, Lulu!"

"And yet you still behave so rudely! The insolence!" Lulu's vision was red with fury. In any other situation, she would have welcomed Angela, and Angela would in turn bestow flattery on her with an air of pomp and parade. But the opposite was true. It was a moment of bedlam.

"You're not the only princess!" caterwauled Angela. "You have no right to query me and it's really impolite for you to talk to me in this way!" Although Lulu was the little princess of the Gu family, Angela was the apple of her parents' eye!

Arvin sensed something wrong outside. He turned off the faucet and heard the hullabaloo. He dried and dressed quickly.

He held the doorknob, but decided to listen quietly first. He smiled as he listened to Angela's dissonant clamor.

Actually, he changed his mind, and decided to let the histrionics play themselves out.

"Wow!" said Lulu, eyebrows raised in stupefaction. "Then, tell us, whose princess are you?" The cornered expression returned to Angela's face.

All this was Nita's doing, she supposed. But she had no proof.

Nita, as it turned out, had tried to get some dirt on Angela by hiring someone to tail her, find out which family she came from. Angela had started living with Arvin by that time.

"I'm Arvin's little princess!" she finally replied.

At the door of the bedroom, Arvin almost laughed.

distress. "Shame on you!" shouted Lulu. "If you say that in front of my brother he will throw you into the ocean! You're nothing but

subdue their nasty barbs. "You don't think I will?" She reopened her eyes full of alacrity. "He wouldn't dare throw

talk was provoked, scared, and random. All

bed, not sex, but she couldn't help how it sounded now. A few days before, Angela and Arvin had slept in the same bed

Nita didn't know that. Now they were under the impression that Angela was

clenched her fist. 'I didn't

overlooked and underestimated Angela's capabilities.

could withstand no more of this. Her cheeks

have a question for you! Is your brother

shook her

not married and I'm not

my brother is not married, but

A cold voice interrupted Lulu words.

Angela ran, and fell

glanced at the intruders indifferently.

her brother and

and I were just passing by! Never

and spoke for Nita. "It's not true! Brother, Nita arranged a birthday party for you by herself. Why did you leave so early?" She peered behind his shoulder. "Does Angela have something to do

Arvin,

at Arvin's cold charisma! She embraced him and took him to her bosom. She hadn't expected him to be so

many times tonight, Arvin had been responsible for her dejection.

'Rosa?' wondered Angela.

to hear her name anymore... Never come here again without my permission, do

was he hiding?

to the door. She changed her shoes as fast as possible and left

Lulu's lungs were giving out with so much screaming. She departed

Angela looked