Chapter 7:
"It's a bit, um, pink don't you think Mum?"
"OH! You're going for something a bit simpler! How about bright purple instead?"
Upon telling her mum she had Friday night plans, Jenna had been bombarded with outfit options from her mum's outrageous closet. Florescent pink skintight dresses followed by what were basically ball gowns that her mum wore when having fancy lunches with the snooty mums up the street. Those lunch dates were her chance to try and fit in, but Lacey wasn't like those mothers, they knew that and so did she, but that didn't mean Lacey didn't try to fight their opinion of her with every power she could.
"I' just going to wear some jeans and a top Tamara picked out for me."
"Tamara is a lovely girl, but when it comes to fashion you're better of listening to Mr. Albert down the street." Who was notorious for his Hawaiian shirts and matching pants. Jenna scooted out of her room and quickly put on what she had intended on wearing. She walked out wearing a fitted blue shirt that flared out towards the bottom, on top of some dark fitted denim pants. Lacey stared at her before slumping her shoulders down in defeat.
"FINE! You look good." Jenna stood their bathing in her success, she had shown her mum you didn't have to be basically naked to look nice, or in her eyes moderately better than her usual self. Jenna took a seat in front of the mirror in her mum's room and could see Lacey standing in the door way watching as she curled her hair and put on some foundation, small amounts of eye shadow and mascara. She thought she was complete until Lacey shoved her back into her seat and said 'final touch' and pulled out her ruby lipstick.
The car pulled up in front of Jakes house. Tamara was buzzing in the backseat next to Jenna and Lacey simply said 'have fun' before letting them out and driving off. It was a nice surprise for Jenna that she didn't get some absurd story from Lacey's past or a final criticism. They knocked on the door and Sadie answered, she stood above them looking down at Tamara and Jenna in disgust.
"Are you coming in or not? I'm waiting to open the door for someone. Not you losers." Jenna hesitated before squeezing past Sadie who was still standing in the doorway. Jenna stood there and watched as a bunch of people she didn't recognized collided with the few she did. One face she definitely knew was amongst the crowd and that was Jeremy, the boy from the oval. She figured she'd say hi since he was standing alone and took Tamara with her.
"Hey Jeremy, I'm Jenna remember we met on the Oval!"
"Hey, yeah sure I remember ha-ha."
"So how do you know Jake?"
"Through Clark they did something with the school debate them together!"
Had she done it again? Jenna looked around and saw Clark walking over with two drinks in his hands. She had, she interrupted another date between them! She did a small chuckle to herself when she realized then excused herself just after saying Hi to Clark. Tamara had gone off to 'mingle' apparently, meanwhile Jenna walked around downing her drinks looking at everything, also mingling going from conversation to conversation and meeting new people. Until she ended up outside where there were a few small groups standing around talking. Jenna took a seat on the pool chair sipping on her drink. She could feel she was feeling dizzy. She lied back and did what she did best, just enjoyed her own company. She just needed a break for the second to sit and catch a breath.
"Hey, Hamilton fancy seeing you here."
Jenna rolled her head back and with a slight drunken smile on her face replied "Maaaaatttty! Hey, I haven't seen you all night?"
"Yeah I just got here, I lost track of time. How's it been?"
"Good surprisingly, I got a drink, spoke to some people, then got another drink…"
It was clear to Matty Jenna had defiantly had a few drinks, he couldn't help but smile when he was around her especially when she was spread out on a pool chair slurring her words completely oblivious to how cute she looked in Matty's eyes.