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.

shouted Lulu. "If you say that in front of my brother he will throw you

don't think I will?" She reopened her eyes full of alacrity. "He wouldn't dare throw me out!

talk was provoked, scared, and random. All

she couldn't help how it sounded now. A few days before, Angela and Arvin had slept in

under the impression that Angela was a slut trying to show off

her fist. 'I

had overlooked and underestimated

ears could withstand no more

not shameless! I have a question for you! Is your

her

He's not married

my brother

A cold voice

was Arvin. Angela ran, and fell

head, and glanced at the intruders indifferently. "Why

and her arrogant attitude died away.

and I

"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.

Arvin, unflinchingly.

him and took him to

couldn't help crying. So many times tonight, Arvin had been responsible for her dejection. "Arvin,

'Rosa?' wondered Angela.

come here again without my permission,

he hiding? Nita

her shoes as fast

screaming. She departed shortly after, refusing to face

became quiet. Angela looked at Arvin with