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and looked at Simone.  Simone rolled her eyes. 
    “I’ve got to get to the hospital,” Jeremy said as he released Jules.  “I’ll see you later.”  He smiled at Jules, glared at Simone one more time, and then left the room. 
    Jules ran to the bed and plopped down on it, handing the dress to Simone for her inspection.  “Isn’t it gorgeous?” she asked.
    “Very,” Simone said and looked at the dress.  For the two years they’d been with Jeremy, he always found time to buy Jules pretty clothes and jewelry.  And on her birthday he always did something special for her.  Simone’s birthdays weren’t even acknowledged by him.  Jules would acknowledge them, however, and would give Simone something Jeremy had given her, but Simone would never accept it.  “I don’t need a gift,” she would say to her sister.  “It’s the thought that counts.”  Of course she was lying.  It hurt her to her heart that her birthday wasn’t viewed as special enough for someone to actually go out and buy a gift for her and then take her “on the town.”  But what could she do?
    “It’s very pretty,” she said of Jules new dress, feeling the wonderful silk material.  “But don’t you think it’s a little too. . . glamorous for an eighteen year old?”
    “No, I do not,” Jules said as she removed her dress from her sister’s clutches.  “I think it’s perfect for an eighteen year old.  I’m grown now, after all.”
    “He said no,” Simone said and looked at Jules.
    “About what?”
    “Getting Shay.”
    Jules looked at her sister in horror.  “Why would you bring that up again, Simone?  He told you he wasn’t going to do that.”
    “I told him to let you get custody of her, that you’ll do it if he said it was okay.  But he said no.   He said you’re going to college and you can’t take on any more responsibilities.”
    Jules smiled.  “He’s just looking out for me, Simone, that’s all.”
    “But who’s looking out for Shay, Jules?  You’ll our oldest sister.  You’re all we’ve got.  If you don’t step up to the plate. . .”
    “Oh will you stop talking like that?  My life can’t become one of your crusades, Simone.  I’m going to college just like Jeremy said.  I’m going to be the first member of our family to ever go to college.  And Jeremy’s willing to help me do it.”
    “He’s always willing to help you.  But what about me and Shay?”
    “He’ll help you too and you know it.”
    “Yeah, right.”
    “He will, Simone, if you’ll only humble yourself down.”
    Simone looked at her sister as if she’d lost her mind.  “Humble myself down?  You mean like you?  Like no way.  Jeremy’s got you so brainwashed, Jules, that it’s beyond sad, and you expect me to be like that?  Me?  Please.”
    Jules shook her head.  “Fine.  Don’t be like that.  Don’t ever dream of being like Miss Horrible me.  But look what being like that got me for my birthday.  What did you get for yours?”
    Simone stared at her sister, amazed that she could be so cruel, but she also knew exactly what was going on.  Divide and conquer, that had always been Jeremy’s way.  Get Jules to hate her, too.  But Simone didn’t sweat it.  She was sixteen now, still too young in the eyes of the law, but when she turned eighteen they’d better look out.  Because nothing was going to stop her then.
    She got up and left her sister’s presence.
     
    Later that night, when her shift at Burger King ended way earlier than she had expected (the manager had over-booked the staff), she returned home, went into the kitchen to get her a glass of water, and was about to retire to her bedroom when she heard loud noises coming from Jeremy’s room.  She became immediately concerned, because Jeremy was supposed to have taken Jules out on the town tonight and neither should have been home, but when she heard Jules voice too, and Jules started screaming, she dropped her glass of water and