"Hey, you thief!"
Arthur, in the middle of contemplating the embarasment of his sister, got interrupted by Angie. She stood there, arms crossed, with her usual nerdy looks. He remembered being obsessed with the tall and busty version of her, it was weird to think that his own little sister had now a better body than her...
- Don't you gaze at me like that! Give me back my dictaphone!
- I'm sorry?
- I know Tomo stole it and sold it to you! And that you're a perv sneaking the girls' locker room! Now give it back!
Arthur didn't think about the fact that Angie could still remember owning the dictaphone, even if all of her recordings were erased. He was in fact holding the dictaphone in his hands, but thanks to a previous recording, Angie couldn't see it. So he mumbled:
- I... Don't have any dictaphone. I don't know what you're talking about.
- Come on, don't play dumb with me.
- I mean that seems not very believable. I bought a dictaphone from Tomo, why would I do that?
- Please, I'm not gullible, I won't fall for that kind of bullshit. I know you have it.
"Oh you won't? Don't be so sure..." Thought Arthur to himself. Then, confident in the fact that nobody could see or hear him talking into the dictaphone, he recorded:
"Angie believes everything I say to her no matter how unbelievable."
Arthur then smiled and said:
- The thing is... When I realized Tomo was stealing your stuff, I already bought the dictaphone. So I yelled to her that she has to give me back the money and give everything she stoles from you so that I can give it to you back. I even had to fight her! It was hard, because she knows karate, you know. In the end, she even the took the dictaphone back from me. So now she's the one who has it!
- Oh... Okay.
It worked! She bought the damn stupid lie! Now she was muttering: "Damn that asian bitch!". But Arthur wanted to see how far he could use that power on her.
- And by the way. You talk about stealing, but you owe me a thousand bucks.
- Really? I... I don't remember borrowing that much from you. But I guess you must be right. God, I'm so sorry! I don't have that much money on me. Is it okay if I pay you back later?
- Well actually, I see you have a rather nice smartphone. It must be around the thousand dollars mark, no? I can take it as a payment.
- I... But it's brand new, I had to save for a long time to buy it and...
- Well, you know it's actually illegal for someone your age to have a debt of a thousand dollars or more, so I could call the cops on you.
- What?! I... I didn't know. I'm so sorry, let's not come to that okay, I give you my phone!
- Okay then, you paid your debt. Next time, don't bother me with a lousy dictaphone when you owe the person a thousand dollars.
- You're right, I'm so sorry... Anyway, who's that sweaty girl who drove you here?
Meanwhile, Zoey was still catching her breath. Arthur smiled and answered:
- Oh that's my little sister Zoey.
- Little sister? She's... Rather curvy for a young age.
- Well, it's... A genetic disorder.
- Oh okay. And why did she had to drive you here with those clothes, did she do something bad?
- Oh yeah she... She's misbehaving at home. Like, actually acting like an animal kind of stuff. She refused to go to school, threw a tantrum, broke a lot of furniture... She even bit my mom! So now I have to take care of her and punish her by ordering her around for the day.
- Wowh! That's incredible... Must suck to have a sister like that.
- Yeah trust me I know. Yeah she really feels entitled, so don't hesitate to boss her around too.
- Okay, I don't want her to bite me... Ugh, she stinks! She's so sweaty! And why does she have those clothes?
- Oh, she didn't want to leave them this morning, so I had to bring her like that.
- Really? My god, she must be stupid!
- Absolutely! Anyway, thanks for the phone.
Zoey, still out of breath, couldn't object to anything Arthur said. And it wasn't like she could if she wanted to, if she wanted for Arthur to keep his promise... She looked around, everyone was looking at her. Angie started repeating the lies Arthur told him. How could she believes that? But it didn't matter. Now everyone's going to believe that Zoey is a wild animal and a stupid little girl. But Zoey endured all of it, all of that for the unconditional love she had for her brother.
Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 2019