"So, did you dance with anyone last night?" Sarah asked, examining her make up kit with a critical eye before choosing a shadow.
Jane laughed wholeheartedly but remembered to hold the curler away from Kate's head. "I wasn't drunk enough to let some grimy dude dance on me. I only had like four, five shots."
Kate pouted, sad that there was no gossip to be exchanged. "So, not an exciting night?"
Jane shrugged and gave a small, secretive smile. "Not really," Jane said, zoning out for a second. "Then again, it wasn't a knock down, bruised knee night like it would have been if I had brought the boys."
Sarah whooped. "Unlike tonight!" She gave an excited shimmy.
Jane and Kate giggled at the blonde's antics.
The blonde girl grinned and stopped, then continued putting her face on. "Whose party is it tonight anyways?"
Jane and Kate shrugged. "Some guy from the swim team," Kate said after a pause.
Jane gave both girls a knowing look. "Who cares as long as we're invited by association to the boys?" A beat then, "And the fact that it isn't at one of the boys' houses means we don't have to clean up once the party is done."
The three girls, who had all experienced at some point how useless the Sons could be when it came to menial tasks, cheered.
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Sarah smiled at Caleb when he opened the door for her. "Thank you," she said, taking his hand and letting him lead her to the front door of the Garwin mansion. It was Sunday, the day after the party (who was thrown by some guy named Jerry Sarah had found out later) and the two had gotten up around ten, Caleb realizing a couple moments later that he had lent the book he needed for English to Reid (Sarah, who didn't know Reid did actual schoolwork, had been surprised). Caleb pulled out his keys and Sarah bit her lip to keep from smiling – Caleb would be the type to have copies of all the other Sons' keys.
Without the strobe lights and beer pong tables, the Garwin mansion was actually a pleasant place. Unlike Caleb's home, which was filled with stuffed cheetahs and other endangered species, Reid's was open and full of light. Sarah almost snorted when she caught sight of fresh flowers on a glass table.
She followed Caleb up a set of stairs and stayed close when he took several turns. The Garwin residence was big enough to have an east and west wing, and Sarah didn't want to get lost. She was following so closely that she ran into her boyfriend's back when he stopped to open a door.
Looking around, Sarah immediately knew she was in Reid's room. Unlike downstairs, his room was full of dark, masculine colors. It was also very messy. Sarah wrinkled her nose in disgust at the sight of several pairs of dirty socks strewn on the floor (though she did get a secret thrill in learning that Reid was a boxer kind of guy.)
Caleb picked his way in an obviously practiced manner through the chaos of the room. Reaching the bed, he shook the shoulders of the blonde whose head was peaking out from beneath the comforter. Caleb asked in a quiet voice where the book was.
Groaning in protest, Reid gestured to the other side of the bed.
Caleb rolled his eyes but rounded to the other side. With a start, Sarah realized there was not one but three bodies in the bed. Impressed, she fought the urge to applaud Reid for having so much apparent skill.
Sarah stared in horror as Caleb made a move to jostle one of Reid's bed partners. She took a step forward to stop him – hottie or not, no girl enjoyed being woken up by some random guy. She nearly gasped when the head that came out of the covers was one she recognized.
Sitting up and rubbing his face tiredly, Tyler tried to focus on Caleb's question. Sarah could tell it was really hard for him and she couldn't blame him; she had lost count of how many shots the youngest boy had enthusiastically thrown back last night. He gave a sleepy nod and pushed back the covers and shakily got up. His movements pulled the covers away from the third person in the bed and Sarah wasn't surprised to see that the third person was Jane (she was, however, disappointed to see the snoozing girl fully clothed in Reid's sweats). The girl moaned in complaint, snuggling closer to Reid, and Sarah smiled when Tyler tucked the covers around her despite his lack of motor skills.
Tyler found the book easily, obviously knowing Reid's room as well as the boy himself. He all but dropped it in front of Caleb's feet, staggering back to the bed and collapsing back into it and Using to secure the blankets around all of the bed's occupants. Caleb shook his head but couldn't keep the corners of his mouth from turning up in amusement.
Following a triumphant, book holding Caleb out, Sarah threw one last glance back. Sarah could see the outline of a mass of body parts that would have worried her had she not known all three were alive. Tyler had thrown his leg across the slack forms of Reid and Jane. Reid was sprawled out and Jane was resting her head against one of his stretched arms, her hand curled possessively around Tyler's thigh. The inquisitive blonde wondered how Jane could act so familiarly with the two and still expect things to remain platonic. Shaking her head, Sarah closed the door with a sigh.
TBC.
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