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Ch. 2 You're a Night Girl Come Dance with Me
(OWEN)
"Where's my sister?" Drew questions when he releases Bianca's lips from the kiss.
"Well I sort of lost her," Bianca admits.
"You lost her?! How could you lose her?" Drew exclaims with a slight growl as he narrows his eyes at his girlfriend.
"She took a jell-o shot while I was watching a guy dance stupidly and then the guy that gave her the jell-o shot took her to dance. I tried to stop her and some other guy grabbed me, by the time I got him off me Clare had disappeared with jell-o shot guy. I was looking for them when you two came in," Bianca explains.
"Let's just split up and look for her," I say.
Drew takes Bianca by the hand and walk out back, knowing teenage guys the way I do I decide to start upstairs. When the doors won't open I pick the lock, the first door is a couple in the middle of fucking and don't even look over when I open the door but I know it's not Clare. There's an open door to a washroom and then a closet so the next door which isn't locked is the master bedroom. Clare is in here, laying on a bed and giggling as she gets kissed by Brad Miller who I know from the football team and DeGrassi last year when he was a senior.
"Clare," I call to her.
"Hi Owen, this is Brad," she tells me.
"Yeah I know Brad and he needs to stop kissing on you," I say making my voice firm at the end.
"Dude either join in or go away," Brad responds barely taking his lips from Clare's skin.
"Brad get off of her or I'll make you. You know she's Drew's baby sister," I remind him taking a few more steps into the room.
"Yeah but she's a lot more fun to tackle than Drew," Brad grins and Clare giggles again.
"Dude I told you to get the hell off of her," I say going over and grabbing him by the back of the shirt and pulling him off of her.
"Owen that wasn't nice," Clare frowns at me.
"Just be glad I found you and not Drew," I comment picking her up over my shoulder. Brad's already left the room, probably downstairs hitting on some other girl. I start walking downstairs and Drew and Bianca are walking up. "Found her she was with Brad Miller in the master they hadn't gotten very far. He's gone I'll take her outside for some air," I tell them.
"I'm not that drunk," Clare argues while using my ass cheeks for a drum.
"Get her outside," Drew says walking behind me and lifting Clare's face, "stay with Owen and I won't tell Spinner that you were drunk and in a bedroom with a guy that graduated DeGrassi."
"Tttbbhhbtt," Clare blows a raspberry at her brother in response.
"I got her, pretty sure I'm way more qualified to lecture her on the evils of drinking than you are," I tell Drew.
"Drinking isn't evil boys with jello-o shots are evil," Clare responds.
"Well she's got that part right at least," I remark.
"Owen will take care of her and since he took her from a bedroom that means that one is free," Bianca says dragging Drew away by the t-shirt and he grins carnally. I walk down a couple of steps and Clare groans.
"Owen can you put me right ways all the blood is in my head," she says.
"Sorry, you're not going to throw up are you?"
"No," she says as I put her down and take her hand just to be sure she won't vanish. We get outside and I sit her on the steps. "You know this isn't the first time I've been drunk," she says laying her head in my lap.
"Yes I know," I reply.
"And you know I won't have a hangover tomorrow," she comments looking at up at me fingering my shirt.
"I know that's why no one else will know you were drinking."
"Then I don't need to be lectured," she says sounding less and less drunk the more she talks.
"Disappearing with some guy into a bedroom after taking a jell-o shot from him, and knowing he'll be in college this year, deserves it's own lecture."
"Do you know that you're hot?"
"I've had a girl or two tell me before," I grin.
"Have you any idea how hard it is to be constantly surrounded by hot guys and have them all be taken, be your brother or act like they're your brother?"
"I'm sure Tris can relate, only none of us are gay so maybe not," I remark and she giggles.
"It's like an unending torture," she tells me sitting up suddenly and straddling my lap with her arms around my neck. Before I can stop her she crushes her lips to mine!
I've grown up with Clare; I've known Drew and the whole family forever. It's not like I didn't notice when she started getting a figure and breasts, it was pretty hard not to, but she's Drew's little sister which to me means off limits. I try to think of her as a little sister, or I could never sleep at Drew's house again, but with her lips smashed to mine and her tongue probing my bottom lip it's really hard to remember that she's Drew's little sister. I start to open my mouth and someone stumbles out from inside. It distracts me enough that I pull away to look at them and come to my senses.
"Clare stop," I say pulling her away from me and off my lap.
"Why?"
"Because you're like my little sister Clare," I reply standing up.
"Agghhh I have three older brothers I don't need another one," she comments standing up and crossing her arms.
"Maybe you do considering the way you're behaving."
"What would you know? You have no idea how hard it is to be the youngest and the only girl in the family, with three older brothers who have no idea what to do with a girl. They'd like to pretend I have no sexual urges at all. If Maya wasn't dating my transgender brother I'm pretty sure K.C. would have fitted her with a chastity belt and she's only got one older brother. You know Emma had to take me to get my first box of tampons, Paige took me to get my first bra and Bianca took me to get birth control."
"Well at least you have girls to…you're on birth control? You're still a virgin right?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," she replies and goes back inside before I can stop her.
"Hey Owen," I hear Adam's voice and see him walking up with Maya.
"Hey guys, you know your sister can be a real handful," I comment.
"Yeah I know where is she?"
"She went inside," I tell them and we all walk inside.
At least this time Clare hasn't vanished; in fact she is quite visible as she dances on the armchair. Swaying her hips to the upbeat song and lifting her skirt a little with each shift of her pelvis. She's got a couple of guys watching her but they're not touching her, yet.
"I want a drink," Maya says.
"I'll get you some water," Adam replies.
"No I want alcohol," Maya responds.
"Are you going to tell me what's going on now?" Adam asks her and she shakes her head. "Can you watch Clare for a second while I get Maya a drink?" Adam requests.
"Yeah I'll watch her," I nod and Adam takes Maya to get something to drink.
I watch Clare a moment, she continues dancing to the music and batting her eyes at the guys watching her. She's teasing them by toying with her clothes but isn't really showing anything just being a tease and keeping them anticipating a peek. Until she notices me watching her and then she grabs one of the guys by the shoulders and smashes her lips to his like she did with me a few moments ago. Unlike me he does not push her away, in fact he puts his hands on her waist and starts lifting her skirt a little more.
"Hey Owen what's going on?" Jay questions.
I look away from Clare to look at Jay, he's not alone he came with Sean, Fitz, Lucas, Johnny and Zig. Which means about the only people we know that aren't at this party are K.C., Spin, Paige and Sean's girlfriend Emma but I suspect she had to work tonight since she usually works nights.
"Keeping an eye on Clare," I reply.
"Yeah where is she?" Fitz asks.
"She's…" I look around for her but she's not standing on the chair anymore.
"Looking for someone?" Clare questions from behind us and we all turn around.
"Owen said he was keeping an eye on you," Jay replies.
"I'm sure he was," she winks.
"You were on the chair a minute ago," I comment.
"Not everyone is afraid to kiss me Owen," she says.
"You kissed her?" Lucas asks but before I can tell them she kissed me Adam comes over.
"Hey Maya drank two jell-o shots and a wine cooler in like five minutes and she passed out cold on the sofa," Adam announces.
"HEY ANYONE WHO SO MUCH AS LOOKS AT THE BLONDE ON THE SOFA WILL HAVE THEIR FACES REARRANGED BY ALL OF US!" Jay yells over the music. Everyone looks over at us and decide they don't want to even attempt to mess with all of us.
"Thanks I'm going to get some water and sit with Maya," Adam tells us.
"I'm going to go dance," Clare remarks walking past me and I grab the back of her skirt.
"Dance with someone you know," I tell her.
"Hey Tribal," she calls to a boy with a tribal looking tattoo on his leg.
"You mean me?" He questions.
"Yeah what's your name?"
"Lex," he replies.
"Now I know him," she says looking at me then looks back at him, "you want to dance?"
"Sure," he smiles.
"That's not what I meant Clare," I scold her as the guy pulls her to him and she sticks her tongue out at me.
"So when did you kiss her?" Johnny asks as we watch her dance to the fast song with that Lex guy.
"On the porch and she kissed me, she was also tipsy at the time," I inform them.
"The anniversary of her dad's death hit her hard, she's just acting out a little," Fitz says.
"Thank you Doctor Fitzgerald," Sean says in a snarky tone to his brother and Fitz twists his face at him.
"Hey the gangs all here," Drew remarks coming down the stairs with his arm around Bianca, "well almost and don't tell me we lost Clare again."
"No she's right there dancing with a guy named Lex," I tell him pointing to her.
"Okay I think I better get her out of here before she stirs up any more trouble," Drew remarks.
"Yeah you should probably take Adam and Maya too, she drank herself unconscious," I point out pointing to the two of them on the sofa.
"Yep time to leave, we can continue this party at home," Drew nods. "Adam let's go," Drew calls to him.
"I'll grab Clare," I tell Drew and walk over to where she's dancing. "Clare time to go," I say pushing Lex away from her.
"Hey we're dancing," he gripes trying to pull her back to him.
"Not anymore she's going home, c'mon your brothers are leaving time to go," I insist pulling her hand. "I never said I was afraid to kiss you," I whisper to her when Lex turns away.
"Then next time don't push me off your lap," she grins and then saunters over to Bianca taking her hand and I watch the two girls walk out.
"What was that about?" Lucas asks after they leave.
"An invitation to trouble."
(ADAM)
"I'm going to shower," Clare says when we get home.
"I'll text K.C. and let him know that Maya's sleeping here," Drew tells me pulling Bianca into his room.
"And I'll get Maya to bed," I respond taking Maya into my room.
She's slept over before but never in my room and not as my girlfriend. I've known Maya forever but we've only been dating a couple of months. I don't know when my crush on her actually developed, sometime after we began jamming together, just fooling around playing music. I asked K.C. before I ever asked Maya out and he told me to go for it, he was quite happy I think to know she was going to be with someone he knew really well. Not to mention someone who doesn't want to be very physical, while trapped in this wrong body, and who can't exactly have sex with her and get her pregnant.
Maya's dead to the world so I get her shoes and socks off, get her out of her dress and put her in one of my shirts. After tucking her into my bed I go out to the living room to watch TV. I hear Clare turn off the shower and go into the hallway waiting for her to come out. She opens the washroom door and jumps a little when she sees me in the dark hallway.
"I thought you'd be with Maya," she comments.
"Maya is out cold, she's sleeping in my bed," I reply following my sister into her room. She closes her curtains and gets her pajamas and a pair of panties from her dresser and begins changing. "I miss him too you know," I tell her and she turns to look at me slipping on her pajama top.
"I know," she says walking over and sitting on her bed, I sit next to her and put my arm around her. "For the last two weeks all I dream about is waking up and finding him dead Adam. I can't sleep and I'm afraid of losing all of you, and don't tell me you're not going anywhere because that's what dad always said," Clare tells me putting her head on my shoulder and I hug her tightly.
"Dad is gone but you're not alone and it's very unlikely that you're going to wake up and find one of us dead again. I'm sorry you had to be the one to find Dad but don't do something harmful to yourself because you miss Dad. Wandering alone at night and being drunk in a bedroom with some random guy is harmful. You could have been raped or worse," I admonish her.
"How'd you know?"
"I'm your twin I know you, plus I can feel you and read your thoughts sometimes," I remind her.
"You didn't tell Spinner or Drew did you?" She inquires.
"They don't need to know everything, besides it's not like they didn't cause their own share of trouble," I comment and Clare laughs. "I'm going to check on Maya and then what do you say to a Monty Python marathon?"
"Sounds great," she grins.
Maya's still sound asleep and when I go out to the living room Spin and Paige are home. They say goodnight to us and go back to Spin's room. Clare and I stay up late watching movies and I sleep on the sofa since Maya's in my room. She wakes up early, I hear her run into the washroom and throw up, I follow her in and hold her hair. When she's done and sinks against the wall I get her a cup of water.
"I feel worse than death why do people drink if this is what happens after?"
"Doesn't happen to everyone and if you don't drink so much so fast next time you may not get a hangover," I comment as she drinks the water. "You going to throw up again?" I inquire and she shakes her head. "Come on let's get you back to bed then," I say helping her up and getting her back to my room.
"Will you lay down with me?" She asks lying in my bed.
"If you'll tell me what's up with you tonight, why you were so upset you wanted to drink?"
"We heard from Kevin," Maya informs me. Kevin would be her and K.C.'s father.
"Oh," I respond lying down and holding her tightly.
"He wants to see us Adam, but I just can't I hate him and I never want to see him again," she says turning into me and sobbing on my chest.
"You won't have to Maya," I assure her stroking her hair, "I promise you won't have to."
She cries herself to sleep in my arms so I stay in the bed with her and fall back asleep. We both wake up when we hear Drew and Bianca making breakfast. Maya says she's not hungry and just wants a shower so I get dressed and go out to the kitchen. Clare's on the sofa drinking coffee while Drew, Bianca, Spinner and Paige are making pancakes in the kitchen. I get coffee and sit with Clare on the sofa since there's nowhere for me to be in the kitchen. Maya goes straight from the shower to laying in my bed again but the rest of us eat. Clare's almost done eating when her cell phone rings, we can hear the ringtone from her bedroom and she runs to get it. She's in there a few minutes and then comes back to the kitchen with a slightly worried look in her eye.
"Has anyone heard from K.C.? That was Jenna, she can't get a hold of him, she went to his apartment and he's not there. Lisa's at work and Maya's here but I tried calling K.C. and his phone is off," she tells us.
"I sent him a text last night to tell him Maya was here but I don't know that I ever heard back from him," I tell her getting up to get my phone. I walk into my room and find my phone, K.C. never got back to me. I hear Drew going into his room probably to look at his phone. Maya's asleep but I check her phone, her last text from K.C. was two days ago. "He hasn't been in touch with me or Maya," I tell them.
"Me either," Drew says.
"Jenna's on her way over, she's really worried," Clare says.
We finish eating and start cleaning up when the doorbell rings Clare answers and Jenna comes in.
"We were supposed to go out last night but he canceled on me last minute. He wouldn't tell me why just said he'd call me this morning but I've been trying him for over an hour and his phone is off. Lisa said she didn't hear from him this morning, I didn't want to worry her so I didn't say anything," Jenna tells us.
"Maya told me their dad contacted them, she was upset about it and drank herself unconscious last night. I knew something was bothering her but she didn't tell me what until the hangover hit her very early this morning," I inform everyone.
"K.C. hates his dad, I'm really worried guys," Jenna frets.
"Relax we'll split up and go find him," Drew assures her.
"Paige and I will drive up toward the prison on the off chance he decided to go confront his dad," Spinner says.
"Maya's crashed out in my bedroom I'll stay here with her. One of us should be here anyway in case K.C. comes by," I speak up.
Even before Dad died our house was like the central hub for everyone. People just gathered here, dropped in and out, slept over when they needed a place to crash. Sean and Fitz sleep here a lot when things with their mom are tense. Jay crashed here a lot before getting his own place, still does sleep here on occasion when he doesn't want to drive home.
"B and I will check The Dot and places around school," Drew says.
"Jenna and I can look downtown," Clare offers.
Everyone gets ready and leaves, I check on Maya and she's still asleep, I'm hoping she stays asleep because I don't really want to tell her that her brother is missing.
(CLARE)
"Can we just get out of these alleyways I don't think K.C. would be in here," Jenna begs.
"If K.C. was looking for trouble last night he would have gone to the places he would have found it," I reply.
Drew and Bianca dropped us off downtown and we'd already walked through but hadn't seen K.C. anywhere. We were heading away from downtown now, we were in a fairly seedy part of town and combing the back alleys because I was fairly certain K.C. had gone to a bar and gotten drunk before passing out in an alley. He could pass for 19 and he has a fake ID so getting into the bars would have been easy.
We're currently in an alley behind a stripper bar, I didn't think K.C. would have come here but you never knew what K.C. might do when he was upset. Jenna seems more afraid of the guy at the end of the alley who's leering at us like we're dinner. He doesn't worry me I know where to kick, also I see Fitz with Lucas and Zig across the street and I whistle to them. A code whistle we all use when we need to find each other in big crowds. The guys hear it and look over, walking over when they see us. Lucas pushes the guy out of the way violently even though the guy hasn't done anything but look at us. But that's Lucas for you, as hot as he is dangerous.
"What in the hell are you two doing down here alone?" Lucas asks and then looks at the building we're standing by, "And don't tell me you were trying to get a job."
"We're not alone we're together but we're looking for K.C. have you guys seen him?" I question and they all shake their heads.
"No one else has called to say they found him either. What if he's hurt or dead?" Jenna rambles with a worried voice.
"Let's just keep looking, we think he was looking for trouble last night which is why we were looking down here," I tell them.
"I've heard him talk about Buck's before, he said he could make a lot of money hustling people at pool," Zig comments.
"Where is Buck's? What is Buck's?" Jenna asks.
"It's a pool bar, a very sleazy one a lot of bikers hang out there," Lucas enlightens her and Jenna looks even more worried.
"And it's near the Port Lands so we better drive," Lucas says.
We walk down to Lucas' car, a black '68 Pontiac GTO that Lucas restored. The car was left to him by his granddad and is probably the only thing he truly loves. It's also a very small car and the five of us barely fit in it.
"You can sit up front Jenna," Zig offers. Zig's had a crush on Jenna for a while, at least since the beginning of summer but she and K.C. are totally in love. She actually seems to be fairly clueless about Zig's crush but it's majorly obvious to the rest of us.
Jenna takes the passenger seat and I get squished between Fitz and Zig in the tiny backseat. Lucas drives faster than the speed limit out to Buck's, doing a 180 spin in the dirt driveway before he parks.
"You four stay here I'll go in and find out if he was even here," Lucas tells us. He gets out of the car and Zig hops out just to breathe, the force of that turn sent me into Zig and we weren't prepared for it. He leans on the car and I stretch out a little, Lucas comes out of the bar and walks back to us. "K.C. was here last night; the guy working inside recognized him and said he was playing a lot of pool. He heard a fight broke out but didn't see it, I get the feeling K.C. was involved though," Lucas tells us.
Jenna puts her head down worried about K.C. and Zig looks around and then takes off running over by the trash bin. Before he even calls for us we're off and running in that direction, once we can get out of the car anyway. Under some cardboard and behind the trash bin we find K.C., he's alive but he's been badly beaten, Jenna screams and Lucas calls 911. He's barely breathing and it sounds strained, he hasn't been stabbed or shot or anything but he's in bad shape and it seems like it takes the ambulance a really long time to get there. Jenna goes with them and the rest of us follow in Lucas' car, I call Adam on the drive to the hospital.
"We found him, he's been badly beaten. He's being taken to St. Michael's hospital," I tell my twin.
"We'll meet you down there did you call the others?"
"Not yet, I'll call Drew in a minute," I tell him.
"Okay I guess I better go wake up Maya and tell her that her brother's in the hospital," he says and hangs up.
I call Drew and then Spinner and they say they'll call everyone else. Zig calls Lisa who's just getting off work; she of course is worried and says she's on her way to the hospital. We're the first ones there but they won't let us back with K.C. and Lucas has to hold Jenna to keep her from going back to the exam room with him. Maya's crying when she arrives and Adam's holding her. Lisa hugs her daughter when she arrives and then goes straight to the nurse's station to get an update on K.C., a doctor comes out and takes her back but the rest of us sit there waiting for news.
"He's going to be okay," Lisa tells us when she comes out again. "He's got a broken nose and some cracked ribs and a lot of bruises. He's awake but he needs to rest most of you should go home. He's asking for Jenna, you can come back for a few minutes. They'll release him in a couple of days the rest of you can see him then."
"I'm sleeping at Adam's again Mom," Maya tells her and Lisa nods.
"Guess we should go home," Spinner comments when Jenna and Lisa go back down the hall.
"I need to get Maya home and get her to eat something," Adam says.
"I don't feel like going home," I tell them.
"Adam and Maya come home with us, Clare home by curfew," Spinner insists and I nod.
"I'm going back to the bar see if I can figure out who roughed up K.C. no kids allowed," Lucas comments looking at me.
"Yeah sounds good to me," Jay comments and Sean nods.
"Don't get yourselves hurt," Emma says rolling her eyes, "I have to be at work in couple of hours I should get home."
"Take my car I'll pick it up tomorrow," Sean says handing her his keys.
"You want to come to our place Zig?" Adam asks and he nods.
"Above the Dot is open," Bianca says.
"Too stuffy I want to be out, the beach or something. Downtown maybe, walk around a little and catch a movie," I suggest.
"Alright let's hit downtown, you two coming?" Owen asks Drew and Bianca.
"Yeah why not," Drew shrugs.
We all split up as we leave the hospital, Fitz & I ride with Owen. We park downtown and walk around a bit before stopping for dinner. Drew and Bianca decide to go off on their own after dinner so the three of us go to a movie. Owen meets a girl at the theater and she sits with us, and flirts with Owen for the whole movie.
"Hey I'm taking Taylor for dessert, Fitz get Clare home. Make sure she gets there safe," Owen says when the movie's over and we're walking out.
"I know how to take care of her," Fitz responds with a slightly offended tone.
"I'm not helpless I can get home on my own," I tell them twisting my face at them for talking about me like I'm not here.
"No I'm taking you home, come on let's go find some wheels," Fitz says putting his arm around me.
We wave to Owen and leave the theater, walking a couple of blocks until Fitz finds a red corvette, an older model he's sure doesn't have a car alarm and he breaks in. He holds the door open for me, I get in and he hotwires the car. I know he's stolen cars before, and been arrested for it once, but this is the first time I've been a part of it. He drives carefully so as not to attract attention from the cops, he drives past my house and parks in a back alley. I get out; he takes off his shirt and wipes the car down thoroughly to erase our prints.
"Learned that in juvie, gotta make sure you get the rearview mirror," Fitz says draping his shirt around his neck as we start walking to my house.
"Just don't get arrested again," I tell him.
"I don't know I kind of like reform school, the classes are easier," he shrugs, "now let's get you home."
"Thanks you didn't have to bring me, seems like you're always the one getting stuck with me," I comment when we reach my doorstep.
"I'm not ever stuck with you, I like being with you," he says and then tips my chin up placing his lips softly on mine and seizing my lips in a gentle kiss.
Update next Saturday and the next update will bring for Clare a summer fling that isn't Fitz can you guess who it is? Jenna nurses K.C. and everyone enjoys the last few days of summer.