"Um, I don't know if she moved on or not. I haven't talked to her in like a week. I deleted her from my contacts and social medias so. . ." I tell Amanda who keeps asking questions about "Jade".
"I'm sure you kept at least one picture of her in your phone somewhere. I wanna know if she's prettier than me," Amanda wines. To make her happy I scroll through the about twenty pictures I actually have in my phone. She points to a picture of me and Quinn in front of the statue of liberty.
"Oh is that Jade?" she asks.
"No," I tell her as I put my phone away in my bookbag.
"Who is it? Pretty old picture though, you look maybe 16 in there."
"Oh that's just Britney then. Our family's took a trip to New York that year."
"Britney has brown hair though, she was ice blonde."
"There is such thing as hair dye. She is naturally brown but she experimented with blonde around then."
"Oh cool. I heard a rumor that you and Britney dated at one point in time. Did you two break up when you started to like Jade?"
"No we broke up around two months before I started dating Jade."
"Did you ever cheat on either of them?"
"Yes, why?" I hate to lie about a whole personal life. I've done it before.
"Ooh which one, Jade or Britney?"
"Why?"
"I just think you'd be the kind of guy to do that. Jade or Britney though."
"Britney."
"Who did you cheat on her with, someone from your school?"
"Yeah I slept with a girl on the gymnastics team after a party and Brit found out. We never told anyone that it was the reason why we broke up."
"We you drunk?"
"Dunno."
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"Okay so we are just going to go to this party to find the twins. Find them ask them about their father's business. My mother works there, we just need a little more info," I tell Quinn.
"Okay Baryl Groves, what are their names again?" she asks me.
"Jade and Ruby Feathers. Remember your name is Caitie Berns," I tell her looking at her freshly dyed hair. Red was not a good color for Quinn. The red doesn't even go with her dress. I Look out towards the water . The Statue of Liberty looked peaceful out there. Pretending to be New York socialites was a task, but we could do anything to get information.
"Let's go," she says walking to turn the corner.
"Hey we should break in through the back," I tell her.
"That's not how they do it here, just find a guy on the street who is leaving the party. The guards don't care what you look like as long as you're on the list."
I go around the corner and there is a couple who sort of looks like Quinn and I. We get their names, steal them, and enter the party.
"Wow it's so nice in here," I tell Quinn. I look around. "We better start socializing" I turn to my side and realize Quinn had already found the twins. I walk over to the group.
"Oh hey there you are Baryl. This is Jade and Ruby," she says to me.
"Your stepsister is really cool," Jade tells me looking at me dreamily. I get a little uncomfortable under her stare and adjust the beanie on my head. Jade's dress was the same color as her name. I also notice her sister had a dress matching her name. Must be so nobosy gets confused with them.
"So you are on one of your breaks at you boarding school. Is it boring there?" Ruby asks us.
"Not really it's okay as long as you don't get caught when sneaking around in the girls hallways after dark," I joke with them. They laugh at almost everything I say. At that moment I forgot everything I was at the party to do.
"Oh I love this song!" Jade says as what I believe is Problem by Ariana Grande comes on. "Baryl, come dance with me!" Jade takes my arm and pulls me onto the dance floor.
After drunkenly dancing with Jade for maybe thirty minutes she pulls me up the stairs of the penthouse we are in. She pulls me into a room.
"I've been wanting to do this since I laid my eyes on you," she whispers to me.
I can't tell you what else happened. I blame it on the alcohol.
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"Why Jade? It seems seems so familiar too," Quinn grills me at out lockers.
"Remember New York? The twins? Jade and Ruby. I was thinking about them and just took Jade's name and used it," I tell her as we walk towards the cafeteria.
"Yeah I remember never getting information out of them and you disappearing with Jade onto the dance floor. I also remember you stumbling onto the bus the next morning with a roaring headache," she says giving me a concerning look.
"Um yeah I've been meaning to tell you about that night. I've always wanted to tell you but I don't really want you yelling at me in French again," I tell her as we enter the cafeteria and sit down at the table.
"Just tell me later," she says.
"Tell him what?" Amanda barks at us.
"About the funny thing he did with his textbook earlier," Quinn tells her as Betley swings his arm around her shoulder. She gently takes his arm and pulls it off her shoulder.
"Yeah it was hilarious," I say with a fake laugh.
"Do you have any more stories about you and Jade?" Amanda asks me.
"Amanda, I don't really want to talk about her anymore," I'm getting a little aggravated. I don't like to lie a lot.
But lying is my life.
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We the Running
Novela JuvenilLeon escaped his prim and proper life after hurting his adoptive mother. Lucy broke out of Ms. Lorraine's Charm School after she just couldn't handle it. At first it was a mission, find Leon's mother. Then it was simply stay alive and keep running...
