Escape ~ S.Harrington

7} Welcome to the Pity Party

Steve viewed his standing up to get the door as saying 'we'll finish this conversation later' but Jenna, on the other hand, viewed it as a way for Steve to get out of their conversation and leave it at that. When Steve opened the door, he was met with a very enthusiastic Tommy and Carol.

"Hey Harrington," Tommy said to Steve as he patted him on the back, "where's the beer, man? I'm parched."
"Uhhh, I'll go get it, it's in the fridge," Steve replied.
"Well, while you get that, I'm gonna make myself at home and chillax near the pool. Oh, hey Freaky Henderson. Forgot you were coming."
"Ah, if it isn't the great and glorious Touchy Tommy with his sidekick Crass Carol."
"What the fuck does 'crass' even mean? Is it even a real word?" Carol questioned.
"That question is exactly why I called your ass crass."

"Alright, alright," Steve intervened, "Tommy and Carol. You guys can head out back and get comfortable, I need to talk with Jenna for a sec."
"That works for me Harrington," Tommy saluted. Jenna just rolled her eyes as the two horny teens went to the back porch flirting their brains out. At this moment, Jenna wanted to get up and leave cause she knew it was gonna be an interesting night, but instead she just got up and went to her car to grab her book. Right as she closed the car door with her book in hand, Nancy and Barb walked onto the driveway and scared the shit out of Jenna.

"Where the fuck did you two come from!?" She asked them with wide, frantic eyes.
"This one," Barb said while pointing to Nancy, "made us park a couple blocks away because she was scared we'd get caught."
"Well, that's really lame Nance. No one gives a flying fuck. For all the neighbors know this is a stupid study group that may or may not be doing drugs. How the hell would they know," Jenna told Nancy.
"Well, on a different note," Nancy spoke up in the silence that followed Jenna's speech, "let's go inside before I get more anxious than I already am."

And with that, the three girls walked up to the door and before Jenna could open the door, Steve flung it open from the inside, revealing him standing there with his award-winning, shit-eating grin.
"Hello, ladies," he flirted.
And with that, the night had officially started.

~

Everyone was gathered on the back deck. Tommy and Carol were walking and messing around near the pool while everyone else was either sitting on a beach chair or the ground. Jenna sat on the chair furthest from the pool in case Tommy or Carol fell in so she wouldn't get her book she was reading or herself wet. Nancy was giving Steve the biggest goo-goo eyes one could give while Barb sat there questioning why she even came in the first place.

"Hey, nerdy ass," Tommy yelled at Jenna, "why read when you could have fun doing, like, anything else?"
"For me, this is fun," she told Tommy, "and why do you always feel the need to comment on everything I do? I'm not doing anything to you directly so please, just leave me alone."
"What's the fun in that, Henderson?"
That particular statement gave Jenna flashbacks to the first real encounter that she had with Tommy.
'Hey, look at her.'
'She could be hot, if she wasn't so much of a freak!'
'Or fat!'
'Hahahahahaha!'
'I heard that you know.'
'So? Being nice is overrated, slut. Now what's the fun in that, Henderson?'

That was back when Steve first became friends with Tommy. Jenna had just gone up to Steve to make sure that their movie night plans were set. While she was leaving, that's the conversation she overheard between Tommy and some of his other friends. From that point on, any time she'd seen him he would find some insecurity to pick fun at, especially her weight. Jenna wasn't overweight and especially not unhealthy but overtime she began to lose some of her self esteem when it came to that kind of stuff, so that's what led to her wearing baggy ass clothes and starting to eat less. It wasn't until about the start of that school year that she began to have healthy eating habits again and that's when she officially decided to just pick fights with Tommy whenever he acted out towards her. She wanted to show she wasn't weak and wouldn't be pushed around; especially by his piece of shit ass.