Hearing my mom speak in such a tone made me realize it must be something more serious than I imagined.

“I warned you that I want you to be the one in charge of my birthday party and you still went ahead to go against my request and you had the guts to introduce her to me? What do you take me for Victoria?” Victoria looked as shocked as I was when I heard the real reason why she was upset. I thought it not something that is supposed to make her as upset as she was sounding.

“Mom, please calm down.”

“Don’t tell me to calm down! I have...