EPISODE EIGHT

"Mo... ther" Emily stuttered.

"Yes, Emily, where were you all night, and why are you just returning home at this time? It is already midday," Elise Lee asked with a disdainful look fixed on Emily.

"Mother, I am sorry; I had just too much to drink at the party," the distraught Emily apologized.

Elise Lee walked down the staircase majestically and came over to them. She looked at Emily from up to down and hissed. "Loser..."

Emily cast her face downward and could not dare to look up at Elise. "I... I am... sorry," she muttered apologetically.

Hearing Emily speak, Elise flared up. "Shut up, you nonentity; keep your forsaken apology to yourself and your useless mother."

Emily knew that it would come to this, but sadly, she had not prepared herself for it. She knew where this was going, and she does not want to go there with it. Her stepmother, Elise Lee, is a bag of trouble; no, she is a truckload of it, and Emily must excuse herself.

"Ehm... I think I will be in my room now," Emily said.