Not Thinkin' Bout You

Chapter 11

PREVIOUSLY: She tried to show that she was completely fine with this, and Sienna seemed to buy it.

The door slammed behind her, the car falling into silence; Ellody noted how the seats were as clean as a 5-star hotel room. The girl in the driver's seat looked nothing like the girl Ellody knew at school - Jade's hair was darker than she thought, with blue tips at the ends she'd never noticed. Rings littered her fingers, and a small tattoo of a heart was visible on her wrist. A denim jacket sat on her lap, her body wrapped in a black bodice; dark jeans covered her legs. Everything about her seemed dark and mysterious, but Ellody's mindset changed when she began talking to Sienna.

"Is this too dark? I was kind of worried about this being too dark, if I'm being honest," Jade explained, gesturing at her clothes. Sienna shook her head and smiled.

"You're gorgeous, no matter what you wear. And it's not too dark; if anything, those shoes should be heels," Sienna decided, kissing Jade's cheek quickly as she buckled her seatbelt. Ellody felt like the little kid, forgotten in the backseat.

"You look so different to what you are at school," Ellody said, a little louder than she usually would. Jade spun around and stared at her, taking everything about her in. Ellody mentally checked off what she was wearing; black and white chequered Vans, bright red pants and a black boob tube. Absolutely nothing from her own closet. Except for the underwear.

"Sienna, aren't those your pants?" Jade asked, surveying Ellody's makeup with a small smile.

"Yeah, I lent them to her for the night. They look good with that top, don't they?" Sienna added, flashing a smile at Ellody, who noticed how much happier Sienna seemed to be now that she was with her girlfriend.

"Oh, I thought maybe Ellody had stolen them. Too bad. I steal clothes from my sisters all the time," Jade explained, then turned her full attention to Ellody, whose hands were shaking from the pressure of Jade's eyes. "You see, I have five older sisters. Dad just wanted a boy, and he got six girls. The oldest is twenty-five, and I'm eighteen. There's a year between all of them, and two years between AJ and I. AJ's twenty. Her full name is Angel-Jo, but she decided that Angel-Jo sounded stupid when she was about three, and has gone by AJ since," Jade explained, tugging on the front of her bodice a little before sitting back in her seat properly. She turned the car on and pulled out of the Brown's drive. Ellody's mind was swarming with information she didn't really need, but she was glad that Jade was opening up to her. It meant she trusted her, already.

Jade and Sienna, or Jienna as Ellody decided to call them, chatted about how Jade's classes were and how it was to watch all her sisters move out with boyfriends, husbands, roommates, best friends or even cats.

"AJ has the best boyfriend. He bought us all ice cream and told me he loved my hair so much that he was going to put it on his Instagram, and he did," Jade said seriously, making a face at Sienna, who laughed. Ellody wondered if Jade was completely gay, or bisexual. Maybe pan? She could honestly be anything.

"OK, but your sisters are all super crazy. Like, Claire got married on her eighteenth birthday and had her baby the day after her nineteenth? Like, dude, wow," Sienna admired, turning around in her seat to show Ellody a picture from Claire's Instagram of her holding her baby next to who could possibly be the tallest guy in the world.

"Wow, he's..." she trailed off, raising her eyebrows.

"Tall as hell? Yeah, that's Damien. Everyone just stares at him in awe at family events," Jade laughed. Ellody stared out of the window as they passed club after club, the streets packed with people talking and laughing. She was glad to see that the streets looked relatively safe tonight - no brawls or yelling so far. They continued driving to the end of the street, and they turned a corner.

The first thing she noticed was that the amount of people outside the clubs seemed like a small get-together compared to this. Hundreds of people and cars waded through the four-lane area, cars parked in all sorts of ridiculous places. A large building seemed to be wrapped in lights, like a giant beacon from the heavens. The car barely muffled the sound coming from outside it. Mostly teenage girls and women filled the area, with the occasional man at a woman's side and boy at a girl's.

"There are so many people..." Ellody muttered, her heart rate starting to pick up pace.

"That's why it's going to be so easy to get in," Jade added quietly. Sienna glanced back at her sister, a small frown on her face like she was worried she'd want to go back home. If that's what she was thinking, then she was right - there were way too many people, and the prospect of breaking the law lay ahead of her. How could Jade drive so calmly, scanning the place for spots, when she knew what was about to go down? How could Sienna sit there with a smile on her face and not have a care in the world, when she knew full well they could get arrested for sneaking in?

"Mate! Oh, come on! That was my park! I was literally reversing into it, you ass!" Jade yelled angrily, slamming her horn as a car slid into the park she was preparing to use. Sienna groaned and wound down her window, sticking up a very rude gesture to the people sitting inside it. Ellody suddenly realised who it was, and she wished she could be anywhere but here.

"Where did that Australian accent come from?" her sister asked, and the girls started laughing as Jade continued driving slowly down the packed street. They came to a complete stop as someone ahead of them drove out of a spot, which was quickly taken.

"We are never going to get a park, I swear," Ellody sighed, leaning back in her seat. Her stomach was an Olympic gymnast, doing flip after flip, as her mind stuck itself to the idea of ending up in jail tonight.