The Devils Finest Trick [JB]

One.

"Aaron she's checking you out." Andrea nudged her brothers arm, directing his attention to a teenage girl giggling. Considering how small the town was, Andrea was sure that they would see her again. They had just moved here and were waiting out in the lobby while their mom enrolled the two into the system.

"What can I say? The ladies love me." he brushed his hand through his hair, flicking up his head, making the girls face turn a bright shade of arsenal red.

Andrea's first instinct was to laugh and snicker 'what exactly is so lovely about you?' but she knew that his answer was going to be 'my swag'. Is that even a thing? Swag? 'Secretly we are gay'?

Instead she rolled her eyes and mumbled "Freshman."

She was going to finish senior year at Boulder City High School. As for Aaron, he will be starting his sophomore year. So technically she should have mumbled 'sophomore', but he still acted like a freshman. You know, when the boys that think they are the hottest thing in the world, and expect all the girls to swoon over them in a blink of an eye. Yeah, that was Aaron for ya'.

"Come on, we gotta get going." she pulled him up by his ear, taking him away from his conversation via 'eye talk'. Their mom, Claire Smith, had walked out of the administrators office of the high-school that both of them would be attending this coming up school year. The home of the Bald Eagles.

She had already read their pamphlet; it was apart of the Clark County School District, it was significantly smaller then her last high-school with an average of six-hundred & seventy students. six-hundred & seventy students too much, Andrea thought.

See, Andrea Green rarely had friends throughout highschool, and at first it wasn't because she didn't want them, it's because she wasn't allowed to have them. No one was ever allowed over at there house because her mom re-married, her now step-dad John Smith.

Oh how she hated that day, knowing that her mom was too in-love with the thought of a family to see how abusive John really was. John always hit Andrea, yelled at her, flicked her mouth, got in her face, taunted her, did pretty much everything to make her life a living hell. Andrea just never took things lightly because the first twelve years of her life were physical discipline free. Everything had changed when John walked in.

The worst part of Claire and John being together is that it wasn't just John, it was John and his whole family of four sisters and three brothers. Not only was John harsh but some of his sisters were even worse at times. On the day of John and Claire's wedding, John's sister locked Andrea in a closet till the ceremony was over to stop Andrea from ruining the wedding. In fact, Andrea missed half of the reception till someone found her right as she finally knocked down the door of the storage closet.

Aaron Green was alot different. He always had friends over, he was always getting more privileges then Andrea. He didn't mind John and Claire's marriage at first. But it made sense, John only tormented Andrea, John always hated Andrea. Eventually it made Aaron hate the marriage, hate John, and hold anger towards his mother.

Other than loathing John, the siblings shared one thing in common; they were confused to why the up and left Colorado for Nevada. Yes, before they came to Boulder City, they lived in Colorado all of there childhood, and years up to now. The summer of 2016, school recently ended for the teenagers, and we're given a week to pack up there house and move out of state.

Their new house was alot bigger than their old one, but how could they afford it? How could they afford such a big move? These were all questions Andrea and Aaron had for their mom. The only explanation was that John got promoted, but it wasn't a good enough explanation for the kids to buy. Andrea thinks there is more that John's trying to do, and Aaron thinks that Claire just wanted to give them something better.