Listening to Henry Hayes's overconfident words, Aurora Sterling found it both ridiculous and embarrassing. She didn't understand why her sister would be friends with someone like him, but now that she had taken her sister's place, these people were her friends too.
'She figured Mrs. Sterling must have disapproved of her sister's good-for-nothing friends, which was why she had been so strict about forbidding her from going out and seeing them.'
'But her sister, partly because of her and partly due to the constant provocation and instigation from Joy Dalton and Sharon Sterling, had only grown more rebellious. The more the elders disapproved of something, the more determined she was to do it.'
'Of course, maybe the reason her sister was willing to hang out with these people was simply that she felt more at ease with them.'
