Evanescent (on hold)

Chapter 5

Rose's POV

"Girl's meeting. Now." I shooed the girls upstairs into our room and snagged the brownie pan and a tray of coffee mugs.

When I got there, Jade was in her top bunk with Alicia and I brought the meeting to order.

"Why are we here again?" Katrina asked.

"Yeah, I wanted to go fishing." Alicia whined.

Jade looked like she wanted to sink into her pillow.

"We are in a meeting so we can get to know all about Jadon." I explained,  smiling over at Jade.

"Really, Jadon? That was the best you could come up with?" Katrina scoffed. She was really different from when we first met her as a soft-spoken nerdy girl that cried when Futurama was taken off the air.

"Well unless you have a better ship, I'm sticking with Jadon." I retorted back.

"Fine."

Jade sunk even lower into her pillow and started to wiggle her way under the covers.

"So. Jade. Spill." I commanded.

"What's there to spill? We legit just got together." Jade looked up and replied shyly.

I sighed.

"You must've felt something before you went all mushy on us." I shot back.

"Ummm not really." Jade protested.

The girls and I looked at each other, realized we had the same idea, and srarted glaring her down.

Jade had obviously known we were going to do that and flipped the sheets over her head. We kept glaring at the blanket covered blob until she popped her head out of the mass and looked at us, relenting.

"Fine." She said and we smiled.

It was easier than I thought it was going to be.

She told us the entire story. Every last detail was squeezed out of her until we were satisfied that she had given us enough information.

Once she had spilled a hell a lot of beans and let more than a couple cats out of the bag, we let her run off to her new boyfriend.

For a while, we just sat there, digesting the details that Jade had told us in silence.

And, of course, the twins had to break it.

Heidi and Katrina started squealing and fangirling, which was so not like them. I looked up at Alicia from my twin bed, which was separate from the two bunk beds, and she just shrugged.

I motioned to her to follow me out of the room, nice and easy, and opened the door, making the Chaustain twins barged in and silenced the two girls who were bouncing on the top bunk.

I slid past them, grabbing Alicia's wrist on the way and slipped out the door.

She and I had obviously had the same idea of getting the twins together, too, so we crept downstairs to leave the them alone.

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