The Misfit

Chapter 3

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"I'm not sure how many seats are left," Adeline said in a sweet voice and looked pointedly at Jane. Jane was almost relieved for the easy excuse to not hang out with her or any more of her annoying friends.

Leo was too busy grinning at Rose and spoke up unaware of the obvious intentional un invite towards Jane.

"Yeah there is, I checked with Oliver just before and he said he had 5 seats," He grinned at Rose and glanced for a second at Jane.

"Cool! Guess we are in... Anything would be better than here," Jane said as Rose's grin grew even wider.

Linking arms they followed each other out the side door that Oliver left through.

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Squished in the cream leather backseat between Rose and Leo, Jane was somewhat torn between regret and curiosity about the party. If these were the cars they all rolled in she had to wonder what the house would be like that they were going to. She wasn't entirely sure what normal teens do at parties because she she had never been to a real one. Just one with her friends at home where it would be a bunch of girls and maybe a gay guy.  Now she was curious on what kids who appear to have everything have to rebel against.

"So... Jane where are you two from?" Adeline had her sickly sweet smile on as she turned in her seat to face the back.

"We're from Tweed Heads, up the coast, we just moved down to Kingsbury," Jane responded.

"Oh, how nice. Northerners," Adeline drawled on the verge of sarcastic, she turned smiling to her brother like they had an inside joke with an eyebrow raised in question "so would you say Kingsbury was a downgrade or an upgrade?" and she burst into laughter.

Adeline's perfectly symmetrical face smirked towards the backseat was met with three very different expressions. Rose's confused face, Jane's glare and Leo's returning smirk.

"Well I really miss the beach and my friends but it is pretty cool to be living so close to all the action to be honest and university here will be a lot more convenient than if we were living on the coast," Rose responded. She slightly confused and missing the rudeness behind the personal insult against their home town in the country and their current inexpensive suburb.

Jane felt eyes staring at her and she glanced up to meet Oliver's in the rear vision mirror. Just the sight of his bright cornflower blue eyes looking directly at her made her blush. She narrowed her eyes at him almost daring to state the obvious. He was clearly in agreement with Adeline as she looked to him for approval on her snide remark.

After a moment Jane felt something on her upper thigh, she jumped and looked down to find Leo's hand resting on her bare thigh far too high for her comfort. In fact any touch at all was out of her comfort zone when it came to slick oiled up creeps.

She looked up at him to see his smirk at her. She picked his hand up and shoved it back into his own space. She felt dirty that he had touched her.

She glanced to the mirror again and was met with Oliver's bright blue eyes set in a slight frown that flickered back to the road.

She wondered if he noticed or knew what had just happened with the slick creep. She wondered if he cared as it sounds like if you are from the country you are close to worthless anyway in their view.

With that they turned off into a driveway.

Jane was so keen to get out of the car she opened Rose's door for her the second the car stopped.