Charlene accepts the call

Before Andrea could decline, Charlene clicked to answer Brian’s call.

Andrea stared in disbelief at ‘her’ mother, who just shrugged and motioned for her ‘daughter’ to pick the phone up.

‘*sigh* Looks like I don’t have a choice now’, Andrea thought as ‘she’ brought it to ‘her’ ear.

“Hey babe. I’m really sorry I haven’t answered like any of your texts. My phone err, broke, and the guy at the store took forever to fix it up. I literally just got it back like two seconds ago. No problem, babe. Yeah I had fun too. A date tonight? Sorry, I’m super stoked to see you again but I’m—".

Charlene snatched the phone out of her ‘daughter’s’ hand and in a surprisingly accurate Joan Rivers impersonation spoke with Brian.

“Hello, is that Brian? This is Mary, Andrea’s mom. Lovely to meet you too!”.

Charlene chatted nonchalantly with Brian about Andrea as ‘she’ sat there with a miserly scowl upon ‘her’ face.

“Now about that date tonight, Andrea would love to go. Crazy golf? That sounds wonderful! Picking her up at 8? Perfect. I’m working so I can’t walk her to your car, but she’ll be there. Great. Bye-bye now”.

Charlene hung up the phone.

“Why you gotta be messing with my love life, mom?!”, Andrea chastised.

“I’ve seen your phone; poor Brian’s been worried sick over you, thinking you abandoned him after you popped each other’s cherry. If you aren’t gonna rescue this beautiful relationship then it’s up to me. A mother’s gotta look after her daughter’s best interests”, Charlene explained, a determined glint in her eye.

“*huff* Fine then! But why’d you do some weird voice and lie about your name like that?”

“Imagine if it turned out the girl you’d lost your v-card to was really Brian; how’d you feel? We’ve got to ease him into the truth”

There was no use in arguing with her; Andrea would just have to suck it up and avoid any more hanky panky from Brian, if ‘she’ could.

As Charlene had clients to attend to, she gave Vicki a half-day and told her to hang out with Andrea, which she gladly did.

Switching to ‘Andrea mode’, Andrea found it a little fun to gossip and hang around the plaza with ‘her’ new gal pal, who made sure they swapped contact details.

She wasn’t as cool as Kristi, but she was at least cheerful company and pretty easy on the eyes.

Charlene took Andrea home after the shift had ended and picked out for ‘her’ a slutty ensemble consisting of a silver sparkly bra top, pink miniskirt, white designer belt with a large gold buckle, ‘her’ cropped denim jacket, and pink platform high heels.

‘Her’ jewellery was just as extra as ever, with large silver door-knocker earrings, silver bracelets, ‘her’ diamante choker and golden heart necklace, and silver anklets. Luckily ‘her’ foxy makeup matched, so only a touch-up was needed. Purse in hand, Andrea entered Brian’s car at the appointed hour.