Sarah Thomas is a little sad and not because she never appears in any
other Sweet Valley series. No, she’s sad because her dad is dating a
hot young thing named Annie and you just know that all girls named Annie
in town are horrible people! At first, Annie took her shopping and did
fun stuff with her, but now she doesn’t give a shit about Sarah.
When she comes home from school, she finds Annie painting her nails.
She asks Sarah to clean up the lunch dishes, which are actually lunch
and breakfast dishes because she didn’t do any cleaning all day. When
her dad comes home, Annie takes all the credit and pouts because he has
to go out of town for work. Annie wants sushi, which makes Sarah sick,
but her dad lets Annie pick because after all, she did all that
cleaning. Annie also wants to go to the movies and leave Sarah at home
alone, even though Sarah doesn’t like being in the house alone.
So dad goes out of town on Monday morning and leaves Annie in charge
until he gets back on Sunday. When Sarah gets home from school, Annie
gets a phone call from a guy. She tells Sarah not to answer the phone
anymore when she’s home and that she has to go out of town and take care
of her sister. She promises to be back the next day, warns her not to
worry her dad by telling him she took off and leaves.
Of course Annie doesn’t come back when she promises and Sarah freaks
out being left alone. She can barely sleep, cries all the time and feels
like crap. She won’t tell anyone that Annie left because she promised
her. She even lies to her Aunt Lillian and her dad when he calls and
*gasp* won’t even tell Elizabeth what is going on. She considers taking a
nap in the nurse’s office, but worries that the nurse might call her
dad.
Liz invited her and Amy over for a slumber party, but she decides to
take a nap first. Annie calls, shouts at her for being a baby and warns
her again not to tell anyone she left. Sarah goes upstairs, hears a
noise and freaks out. She starts down the stairs, trips and tumbles to
the bottom. She starts crying because she is in so much pain.
Amy, Liz and her dad stop by Sarah’s house and knock on the door. Amy
sees a light on upstairs and when Liz peeks through the door, she sees
Sarah at the bottom of the stairs. Ned breaks a window, Liz climbs
inside and they call an ambulance. Ned calls her dad’s office and tells
them what happened.
Later that night Mr. Thomas shows up and rushes into her room. She
won’t say anything at first, but eventually confesses that Annie took
off. He calls her sister and learns that everything she told him was a
lie. She said she grew up taking care of all her little brothers and
sisters, but she was the baby in the family and hasn’t seen her family
in weeks. Annie rushes through the door with the same sad story and he
shoots her down. She pitches a hissy fit and he walks away, letting her
leave.
Elizabeth drops by later in the week and learns that Sarah’s aunt
wants custody of her. She convinces her friend to tell her aunt how she
feels and of course everyone agrees that she should stay with her dad.
Jessica has a B-plot that involves Janet Howell suddenly spending a
lot of free time with her. Janet is always inviting herself over, but
never wants Jess to come to her house. She also asks about Steven all
the time, but Jess doesn’t get why. She literally doesn’t get it after
she invites her to go roller skating with her family and Janet gets
pissed off when Steven doesn’t go.
Janet suggests they have their next party at the Wakefield house. She
asks Steven to the party and he shoots her down before running away.
Janet makes rude comments and Jess calls her out. They fight and she
threatens to resign from the Unicorns. Lila isn’t speaking to her either
because she took Janet skating instead of her, so she thinks her life
is over.
Of course she makes up with Lila and Janet tells everyone that she
had a great idea for a luau party. Everyone loves the idea and they love
her again, but Janet still makes it clear that Steven should come to
the party. Oh and they decide to make the party in honor of Sarah, since
she sprained her ankle and had a concussion and all.

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