When Good Girls Drink

Chapter 12|Truth And Truth

•‘What about party games, Si? This is my sweet sixteen we're talking about here, it has to be the bomb.’ ‘I’ll search the web for popular games teenagers play at parties, sweetie.’ ‘Thank you, Mrs O'Conner.’ ‘Here are the results: Spin the bottle, truth or dare, pin the–’ ‘I got it, mom! Truth or Dare! Oh my gosh! My party is going to be an explosion!’•

Elizabeth O'Conner, Mrs O'Conner & Sienna Hart.

Jason Macaulay’s POV

I sat silently in Sienna's car watching her drive.

I have to admit it felt weird.

I was okay with Janette driving me back when I crashed my car because we always engaged in some sort of talk.

Arguments actually.

But I never let any other girl drive me even Alisha.

I'd given Alisha rides plenty of times with my car and hers too but I was always the one driving.

“Your awfully quiet,”Sienna said and I shrugged.

“Do you have anything to talk to me about?”I asked and she shook her head and brought her hair front to rest on her shoulders.

“No, I don't but when you offered to go with me, I didn't think you'd be as boring as this,”Sienna said and I feigned hurt.

I pressed a fist to my chest dramatically, “you wound me.”

“Sorry,”Sienna said, “but it's the truth. It had to be said. With the way the student body are always gushing about you, I thought you'd be telling me about some crazy night you had in Las Vegas. You know, mind blowing rich kid stuff.”

“I've never been to Las Vegas,”I admitted.

“Maybe Sky diving then?”

“I went with Brandon during summer,”I said remembering, “it was really exhilarating. The wind was in my face and I was falling from the sky! It was really fun. You should go.”

“Yeah, okay but please don't mention that idea to Lizzie,”Sienna said,“I've been forced into enough activities for the year.”

I let out a small chuckle.

“No problem,”I agreed. “Hey, how about we play a game? Lizzie's house is still a few miles away, right?”

“I'm driving,”Sienna said, gesturing at the steering wheel.

“Let's play something like 20 questions or truth or dare then?”

“Yeah... No, I don't think so.”

“Truth or truth?”

“Isn't that just 20 questions but limitless?”

“Well, I don't see you coming up with any ideas,”I pointed out.

“Truth or Truth it is,”Sienna said.

“I'll go easy on you,”I said,“Go first.”

“Not happening,” Sienna shook her head and a strand of curly hair escaped from behind her ear and hung in between her eyes falling past her chin.

I averted my eyes from her when I realised I was staring.

“This was your idea so you go first,” Sienna continued, “go on, I'm listening.”

“Fine, first truth,”I said,“How far back into my i********: have you crept?”

Sienna let out a small laugh,“what would I be doing on your page?”

“So you're not a stalker?”I asked teasingly.

Sienna looked over at me and rolled her eyes, “do I look like a stalker?”

I let out a small laugh,“does anyone?”

She shook her at my comment as she continued,“but if it'll make you feel any better, I did check out your page one time with Lizzie.”

“Oh really?”a smile appeared on my face. “Do you what I wore to my middle School graduation then?”

“Nope,”Sienna said, popping the ‘P’,“My turn. What's the worst kiss you've ever had?”

I looked over at Sienna to make sure she was still the girl that I was with.

I don't know what kind of truth I had expected but it definitely wasn't this.

She seemed so... fragile.

So innocent.

Though I knew this question didn't make it any less true but it made me realize that their are a lot of things to learn about her.

Pushing my thoughts aside, I faked a groan as though there was some bad memory in my head, “she wouldn't open her mouth at all and then she said ‘I don't do tongue’ and then she tired to get me to read gravity rainbow.”

“For reals?”Sienna asked and I shrugged.

“Nah, I've not really had a bad kiss yet,”I admitted, “I've only ever kissed one person.”

“Okay.”

“Are you afraid of becoming your parents?”I asked.

“No, not really,”Sienna shook her head and used her slender index finger to push her glasses up her nose though it wasn't slipping off.

I noticed she didn't have any nail polish on.

That's a first for me.

All the girls have some colour on their nails. It was pretty and I guess it reflected their personalities in a way but I guess I'll have to figure out Sienna's personality on a more intellectual level.

“My dad, James is resourceful and he’s really good at multitasking and that's really handy because my mom isn't always home and my mom’s a doctor. Her is name’s Mallory. I really love her. She grew up in this town so she knows a few cool places.”

“Really?”I asked,“tell me more about your doctor mom named Mallory who never moved from her home town.”

“Haha, spot on Psychiatrist voice,”Sienna said mockingly, “it's my turn. Have you ever ghosted anyone?”

“Yeah,”I nodded thinking back to one of Alisha's followers back in middle School.

Kenzie.

That was her name. She had this huge crush on me which I didn't see as a problem till she started to act like the paparazzi.

It had to be done.

She goes to Borderline high school and is on the lawn tennis team I think but thankfully she keeps her distance but I still catch her staring at me in the halls sometimes.

“Would you ghost me?”Sienna asked and I smirked.

“Well, you're not obsessed with me so no, ”I said as I started to think of a question.

“Uhh, what's something you can't let your parents find out about you?”I asked, “if you have a story about your mom seeing your first tattoo at your rich uncle's Christmas Eve party and she cries in front of everyone, now's the time to tell it.”

“So you watch your sister's movies?”Sienna asked with a smile in her voice, “that's so supportive.”

“Yeah, Ali made me watch it at one of our movie nights though I particularly loved that one,”I said recalling Janette’s movie, “‘I've got a secret’ wasn't it? She put her crying and screaming skills to good use. It also made my parents realise that all her tears over the years were fake.”

“Well, you got the part about the rich uncle right,” Sienna said after her laughter died down, “but we always spend the holiday with my dad's parents. And Jace, I thought we already established the fact that I'm good daughter but I wouldn't still do body art either way. Don't get me wrong, I love them and I think some of them are cool but they're not really something I'd do.”

“So you're basically the perfect daughter then?”

“I like to think so, yeah.”

“Ego alert,”I said.

Sienna groaned before she muttered, “I should yelled that at the kiss question.”

“It's in the past, Sienna. Learn to forget,”I teased, “your turn.”

“Umm, what's your favorite scar or birthmark on your body?” she asked and I smirked at Sienna.

“So you want to see my body?”I joked and Sienna’s cheeks turned a noticeable shade of red,“You know you could have just asked.”

“This is the reason why students fail, you know,”Sienna rolled her eyes,“I didn't ask to see them, I just asked you to tell me.”

“Alright,”I raised my hands in mock surrender,“you're smart. I know. But if you must know, I ran into parked monster truck when I was three and I bumped my forehead into the truck. The scar is shaped like a cresent moon.”

I moved my hair from my forehead and ran my thumb over the scar.

“You'll have to show me that later,”Sienna said,“I'm kinda trying to get us safely to Lizzie's house.”

“I thought you didn't want to see?”

“Let it go, Jason.”

“Alright, next truth then,”I said,“what did you first notice about me?”

“Brandon,”Sienna replied like she had rehearsed it.

“Brandon?”I asked, confused.

Did she say Pardon or Brandon?

“Yeah, he's always with you and his blonde hair is almost white,”Sienna explained. “It's kinda hard to not notice him. I used to think you kept him around just to keep the attention off yourself a little bit till last two seasons ago at one of your games, a player from east high pulled a fowl on Brandon and you ran from the other side of the field just to check on him.”

I stared blankly at Sienna.

Shocked that she knew and remembered all that when I didn't even have a memory of it and I was the subject in the story.

“Wait, what were you even doing at one of our games?”I wondered and Sienna let out a chuckle as she pushed her glasses up her nose bridge which I was starting to think was a habit.

“I wasn’t there for you, Golden boy,” she said, “Lizzie was cheering for the first time at the pep rally so I stayed behind after school. My mom was supposed to come pick me up but something came up and my dad went to drop my brother at college so I stayed behind and watched the game because Lizzie's mom was my ride home.”

“You have really good memory,”I complimented, “and hey, did you just give me a new nickname? I thought Jace was enough.”

“I guess,”She shrugged, “we'll see which one fits more.”

“Alright, my turn, what did–”

“Hold it right here, Golden boy, ”Sienna interrupted with a finger in my direction, “it's my turn. Have you ever had your heartbroken?”

“Yeah, when my  middle School girlfriend dumped me, I cried in a snow bank.”

“For real?”

“Nope, I didn't really have crushes on girls in middle School,” Jason explained,“well except for that one time I had a crush on Ali but it faded away month later. I never had the mind to tell her.”

“So you've never had a girlfriend?”

“Not yet,”I said.

“Okay, ask,”Sienna said,“your turn.”

“What did you get in trouble for when you were a kid?”

“There are two events actually,” Sienna informed me,“do you mind?”

“No,”I shook my head,“go ahead, I'm listening.”

“At my dad's store growing up, the workers at the cashier worked their shifts for just an hour before someone else took over and I would order my favorite drink, blueberry fool from each of them till I caught a bad cold because you know, it's an icecream smoothie and I had to come clean and then I wasn't allowed to have it for a month and I got banned from the store too for some time. So, that was a lot of trouble.”

“Not so perfect now, are you?” I teased and she brushed me off politely with a small smile on her face.

“Now here’s the second thing,” Sienna said,“my third grade teacher me made stand out in the hallway because I wouldn't stand up in the middle of class. I was a very shy kid. Anyway, Liz got in trouble too because of me and so we stood together for a while before we both got bored and Lizzie made us have early recess.”

“You both seem to have a lot of history,”I pointed out and Sienna smiled.

“Yeah,” she agreed and the game went on, “next question, who was your first celebrity crush?”

“Nicki Minaj,”I said off the top of my head I added, “and it's not because of her physical appearance though but her flows and outward personality.”

“Yeah,” Sienna nodded and I shrugged.

“I don't know,”I said,“maybe I've got a thing for half black women?”

Letting her eyes leave the road, Sienna studied me for a second before she spoke,“I'm a half black woman.”

“Yeah, I know,”I said, pretending to not see the point she was trying to make. “I guessed though

Your hair was an obvious giveaway.”

“No, I meant– you said–” she let out a small breath, “never mind.”

Seed planted?

Check.

“Okay, whose turn is it?”I asked.

“Yours,” she said.

“Umm, when's the last time you cried or got mad?” I asked as Sienna brought the car to a stop.

“We're here,” she said as she removed her keys from the ignition,“maybe we continue some other time?”

“Maybe we can text?”I asked a bit hopefully.

If she said yes then I would officially have her number though I do already but out of chivalry

“So Lizzie hasn't given you my number yet?”Sienna teased after a short time of silence,“she's already told you do much.”

“Honestly,”I began,“it's not that much stuff.”

“Okay,” she said slowly,“I'll think about it.”

She reached behind to the back seats, picked up her backpack and searched it for something.

After we had both gotten out of Sienna's car, we made our way inside Lizzie’s house.

I noticed Brandon’s car parked inside the compound, in front of the house.

I watched as Sienna pressed her thumb to a thumb scanner in front of the house and the entrance doors clicked open.

She noticed me staring at her and she explained.

“I'm like a second daughter to them so Lizzie kinda manipulated them into giving me access to the house. Only child privileges I guess.”

I followed Sienna through the spotless house.

It was like people didn't even live here.

There were no coats or books or keys or anything at all lying around.

“Her parents aren't home a lot,”Sienna explained as she began ascending a flight of stairs and I followed suit.

“I didn't say anything,”I told her and she shrugged.

“You didn't have to,” she said,“I could tell you were thinking about it.”

She led the way towards Lizzie's bedroom and there she pushed the door open.

It was a pink Paradise.

Everything was in different shades of pink.

The curtains, bed sheets, her desk, shelves, mirrors.

Everything.

Brandon sat on a pink chair watching Lizzie sleep.

“Jason?” he asked a bit surprised as he glanced between Sienna and I. “I didn't hear you guys come in. What are you doing here?”

“Just escorting her,”I said gesturing to Sienna.

“The room’s sound proof,”Sienna answered before she asked,“did she was? She always has a meal before she goes to bed.”

“Yeah,” Brandon nodded,“she had some leftovers from the fridge.”

“Are you staying the night?” Sienna asked and Brandon shook his head.

“I was just leaving,” he said.

“Okay, thank you for taking care of her though,”Sienna said politely and Brandon shrugged.

“I didn't mind, she’s my date afteral,” he said,“I should get going. You coming Jason?”

“Yeah,”I replied before I turned to Sienna, “will you be okay?”

She nodded and pushed something into my hand and leaving no room for questions, she said, “guess we'll see at school. Thanks for the company, Jace.”

✯

At home, I unfolded the piece of paper Sienna har given me.

I recognized it.

It was the same card that had fallen from her book the other day.

I smiled as I placed it on my side table, pulled out my phone and sank down to my bed.

UNKNOWN

U didn't ans my question,

u know 11:08pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

What's gone is gone, Jace

11:10pm

My turn 11:10pm

what's your favorite

body part? 11:11pm

GØLD£N BØY

Are u sure u don't want a

pic instead?(◔‿◔) 11:12pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

Nope,words r just fine 11:12pm

Thank you 11:12pm

GØLD£N BØY

Haha! Jk 11:13pm

YOU REPLIED TO ∆ÊSTHÊTIC:

My arbs 11:13pm

If I gave u $20 now what

would u buy me? 11:15pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

Tickets 2 go see something

i think 11:15pm

When was d last time u cried? 11:16pm

GØLD£N BØY

Last year, was chopping up

onions to make burgers

What your favorite position?

11:17pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

Huh? ಠಿ_ಠ 11:17pm

ಠಿ_ಠಿ  11:17pm

Alright, moving on 11:18pm

What's something pple wud be surprised to learn about u?11:18pm

GØLD£N BØY

Was going to ask that 11:19pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

But then typed something

Else?¯_ಠ_ಠ_/¯ 11:20pm

GØLD£N BØY

Sorry 11:20pm

I like getting good grades

11:20pm

Did u ever crush on a

Teacher? 11:21pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

My elementary school

reading teacher had tattoos,

played a guitar and I

still have a crush on Him

11:22pm

What's the biggest

misconception about u? 11:23pm

GØLD£N BØY

Note to self: call Frank my

tattoo guy(◠‿◕) 11:24pm

That i don't give two Fs about

anything 11:24pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

If it makes u feel any better

I think self-awareness is really cool, hot even 11:26pm

GØLD£N BØY

If u woke up and social media no longer existed, what would u do?

Cut ur hair? stop dressing everyday? Move to Korea?

Give me IRL details 11:26pm

∆êsthêtic §iênna

Go comfort Lizzie and I

happen to love my hair

though it's a pain in my

behind, my sense of fashion

is self expression and I'm not crazy about BTS so no 11:27pm

And did u just use an acronym?

11:27pm

Instead of a pet peeves, what's your pet passion? 11:29pm

GØLD£N BØY

I like referring to inanimate objects as she and when pple

Drive automatic but still keep their hands on the gearshift 11:30pm

Sienna? 11:40pm

Goodnight sleepy head( ͡°ᴥ ͡° ʋ)

11:57pm

That night, I fell asleep with thoughts of a girl who made so much witty comments, was a caring friend, had beautiful kinky curly hair and a simply amazing personality which may or may not involve an undertoned wild side.

I was going to enjoy this friendship with Sienna, I knew that. But once again, I hoped we wouldn't be just friends for so long.