Shadows We Can't See

Chapter 6

A few days after Jordan's talk with Scott, Jorden gets dressed for the party. He wears sloppy grey sweatpants and a flannel with a red and blue strip pattern.

"I really hope your not planning on wearing that." Lucifer says next to Jorden by the mirror, "You look like you just came off the street begging for money."

"I can wear whatever the hell i want, I don't like fancy clothes" Jorden says gloomy with bags under his eyes indicating he hasn't been getting sleep. It's a hot Friday afternoon with the golden sun setting into a cool dark blue moon. The birds have gone to bed and the only sound that is heard is the chirp of crickets in the bushes. Jorden walks down the stairs and passes the couch where his sister is watching tv.

"I'm off to a party, I'll be back before morning." Jorden says kissing his sister on the forehead

"Good, make sure your phone is charged and hey...I'm glad your getting back out there after all of this." Caitlin says with a smile then pushing him towards the door, "Now go have fun, be a teenager."

"Oh we will." Lucifer says to himself while Joden scoffs delightedly. Jorden walks out of the house as the bright golden day has turned into a dark, cold night. He starts to walk on the sidewalk with glitchy spots lights fading in and out on moments notice.

"Do you even know where your going?" Lucifer says with an annoying tone while Jorden just shrugs while turning a corner. A couple of hours later Jorden walks into a drive way as music is blasting from the house And into the backyard. Strobe light could be seen from a mile away as different colored lights grace different houses presence. The house is fairly big, with more then three floors and a impressive balcony. Jorden walks to the backyard as Scott drunkenly greets him.

"Hey, glad you can make It buddy. Were having such a blast, there's drinks and booze over there knock yourself out bro." Scott says walking away bumping into several people while laughing for no apparent reason. It is packed with people from the house into the backyard and Installed pool. People yelp and holler while doing things that would make their parents faint. Jorden walks over to the drinks and grabs a red solo cup, he looks at the array of booze and vodka. He sighs and settles on just a soda.

"Wow, a soda you are the party animal" Lucifer says uninterested and unimpressed

"I'm not looking to get drunk, I'm just looking to be a good friend" Jorden says taking a sip of cola.

"You mean the friend who is wasted and probably passing himself right now. Your at a party have a little fun" Lucifer says smirking. Jorden takes a pause to think about it, then sighs and looks at Lucifer.

"What do you have in mind?"

"Well you can start by talking to that girl over there whose been eyeing you since you came in" Lucifer states pointing to a young red head in the corner sitting in a bench. The girl has red hair with square glasses and a yellow colored dress. Her eyes were as blue as the moonlight shining down, and as if like a dream, that moonlight hits her just right. Jorden looks over as she quickly turns her face away. Jordan's face turns a light shade of pink as he puts his cup down and walks over. She notices and fixes her silky dress as flaps in the pale moonlight.

"Fun night?" Jorden asks with a sense of nervous tension in his eyes.

"Eh, I guess. I'm not really into parties" She says looking up at his eyes. Jorden blushes and turns his face away in embarrassment. The room seemed to loose its sense of time and crows, only they existed in this realm of reality.

"Me neither, I only came for my friend" he says as pink as the popped balloon animal laying helplessly on the grass tarred up by the other members of the party. "He's hammered and I have nothing to do now" Jorden says looking back at her looking at her slight smile which causes his nervous tension to calm down. A breeze like feeling brushes through his body like he's moving at a million miles per second. His heart beats faster and his face gets redder

"Me too, his name is Scott" She says with a sense of happiness and laughter.

"Wait, Scott Chestercove?" Jorden says with slight excitement.

"Yeah, from the coffee shop down in..."

"North street" She says with Jorden joining in with a laugh.

"I'm Isabella, but everyone calls me Cotton candy or CC because of my hair" CC says with a wide smile

"Jorden, I don't have a nickname" Jorden says with sweat dripping down from his brow as she laughs. Scott shuffles out with his other buddies drunkenly gulping down whatever alcohol is in his blood stream at this point. Scott looks over and sees CC and Jorden and walks towards them.

"Jorden, CC, mingling I see. Getting anything on tonight?" Scott says putting his arms around Jorden while pumping his eyebrows and doing a slight pelvic thrust.

"Nope and your breath smells like you just threw up" Jorden says contorting his face at the very smell of Scotts face.

"I did, eleven times, I have three buckets filled. You two love birds have fun I'm gonna go rub ice on my nips" Scott says walking away and falling on the floor face first.

"Scott is crazy when he's drunk. I never saw him drunk before. It's kind of amazing" Jorden says sitting next to her.

"I've only seen him like this a few times. I wonder what he puts in his coffee" She says as they giggle. That night seemed like forever as Lucifer stands in the back with a devilish grin"