Uninvited
"I can't believe that I let you drag me here." Katie said to her friend Nicole as they entered the booming house.
"Well I can, so get in here." Nicole said as she dragged her friend over to the table where the drinks were.
"I didn't really want to come here."
"I know you didn't, but I can't help that."
"Yes you could have. You dragged me here." Katie wasn't going to let her get away that easily. She dragged her to this miserable party that she didn't want to go to.
Katie didn't want to be there because of one reason. And that was because she didn't know anyone.
"You're new here, and I want you to meet some new people!"
"I know, but I can't help but feel stupid. I mean, you put me into this getup, and then you drag me to this awful party. I can't see how you're helping me."
"Well, you'll never meet new people if I left it up to you!"
"And I'd like to keep it that way."
"Just shut up and come get a drink with me."
"Whatever."
"I've just about had it with you." Nicole growled.
"So we can go home?"
"AAHHH!!!" Nicole screamed. But the music was so loud, no one heard it anyway.
Katie and Nicole had been friends for awhile, but they were also step cousins. Katie's step mom, Carol, was Nicole's father's sister. Katie's dad had died in a car accident around two months ago, and she was forced to live with his new wife, Carol. Her parents had just gotten a divorce before the birth of Katie's younger sister, Kristen, and he had remarried Carol around six months ago.
Carol, to put it nicely, was not fond of his eight children. In fact, she had hired a full time nanny, Elisa, to practically raise them. So, as soon as Katie's father had died, Carol had moved them from California to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be closer to some family (aka, dump them when the time was right) But, that was fine with Katie. Luckily, her father was well prepared and had left them plenty of money to live on.
"Just go sit on the couch, and some one will surely ask you to dance." Nicole said, walking off to find her boyfriend, Bryan.
"But-" she started to protest, but her friend had already disappeared into the large, dancing, crowd.
Katie sighed. She knew she wouldn't make any new friends, but she knew that she would most likely make a fool of herself, or better yet, be asked to leave, as usual. At her old school, no one liked her, and she had always been the queer one who would just eat lunch with anyone. She didn't want it to be Middleton all over again, but then again, she didn't want to be just another face.
She sighed. She felt very uncomfortable in the clothes Nicole had stuck her in. She was wearing a nice, short, light blue sleeveless dress with little yellow flower sewn onto it, with some white sandals. It was a very nice dress, but, Nicole had picked it out, and it was nothing like what Katie would have chosen.
"You wanna dance?"
Katie looked up. Before her short boy, around 5'1", with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes.
"Um, sure." He had a very high pitched, funny voice, and he was terribly skinny and looked terribly funny in his over sized khakis and polo shirt with his short brown hair slicked back for all it was worth.
"My name is jabin." He said, holding out his hand.
"Mine is Katie." She said, shaking it.
"Nice to meet you. Now let's boogie. You new here?"
"Yup."
There was a pause.
"Um, are you new around here too?" She asked him.
"Nope." He simply said, putting his hands on her waist.
"um, aren't you a little young to be at this party then?"
"Nope. If you're fourteen, I'm just as old as you are."
"Oh." She suddenly felt stupid.
"Don't worry. I just haven't hit puberty yet!" he said happily.
"I can see that." Katie said.
"Well, I know I don't fit in here, but that's just part of the fun."
"Oh. Okay."
He just smiled and gave a little laugh.
"I don't really think I fit in here either." She said, trying to make him feel a little better.
"Well, that's all up to you." He said.
"True."
"Hey, I ought to introduce you to Small Fry." He said, looking around.
"Who's Small Fry?" She asked.
"Oh, that's my friend Zac's nickname. He's pretty cool."
"Oh…okay."
He looked around some more, then began frantically waving.
"Zac! Zac! Over here!
Out of the crowd emerged a very large boy, who had shoulder length blonde hair, and he was in no sense a 'Small Fry'. In fact, he was very big. Very, very big.
"Zac, this is my new friend in town, Katie. Katie, meet Zac, I think you'll like him. Although you are a real ladies man, aren't ya, Zac?"
"Um, yeah." He said, smiling at his friend's antics.
"I'm Zac, and I see you've already met my friend Jabin." He said, outstretching his hand.
"Katie. Yeah, I have." She said, shaking it. He had a very good handshake, nice and firm, and his hands felt warm, she noticed. She also noticed that he held it for a little longer.
He smiled. He had very straight, white, teeth, and he was huge. Not fat or big, but huge as in nearly six feet tall.
"Do you want to dance?" He asked, noticing that a new slow song was starting.
"Um, yeah, sure." She said, and they slowly made their way past the pairing up couples, and then she put her arms around his shoulders, and he put his around her waist. They started swaying with the music, and soon there was a silence between them.
He cleared his throat and said "Are you living here, or are you just visiting?"
"Um, well I just moved here three days ago, and I live here now." She said.
"And you already know Nicole?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah. Well, I already knew her, because she's my cousin." She said, not really wanting to get into the whole story.
"Oh, do you live near her?" He asked.
"Um, yeah, just a few houses down."
"On 75th?"
"Yeah." She said, not knowing what to think. What was this, 20 questions?
"oh, I live on 78th!" he said, giving her a smile."
"Oh, cool." She said, not really knowing what she was supposed to say.
"You don't really want to be here, do you?" He asked, looking down at her.
"No, I don't. Nicole kind of dragged me here to meet some new people."
"Oh, that's Nicole! Always trying to pair people up. Well, I guess she was right."
"Right about what?"
"Oh, nothing." He said, smiling.
"Okay."
They danced to another song, and he just pointed people out to her, and she decided that Zac was okay, just a little nosy.
"Thanks, Zac, but I think I had better find Nicole. It's almost eleven." She said when the song ended.
"Oh, okay. Bye" He said.
Katie wandered through the mass of people, and she saw lots of them looking at her, as if she was some sort of freak. Oh, she thought to herself. I'm the new girl. To them, I probably am a freak. She found Nicole talking to Bryan in the kitchen.
"Nic, we'd better get going. We're sposed to be home at eleven, and it's almost that now." Katie said, dragging her out.
"Call you!" she yelled over her shoulder. She turned to Katie. "So did you meet anyone new?"
"Yeah, I met this shrimp named Jabin, and I danced with a guy named Zac." She said.
"Oh, Zac Hanson? That Zac?" she asked, pointing to him over on the couch.
"yeah, that's him."
"Oh. He's one of our neighbors. You should feel privileged. He never comes to parties, or asks anyone out. He's almost queer." Nicole said.
"Oh, well, we danced twice."
"Really?" she squealed as she opened the front door.
"Yeah. Oh, there's Judy. You're still spending the night, right?"
"yeah, remember, I left my stuff at your place. I have to."
"Gee, thanks."
"No, it's just that your nanny, Judy, scares me."
"Yeah, my sister said she was a witch. I don't believe it though."
The girls laughed at the thought, and climbed into the huge black suburban they had bought for Judy to haul eight kids around in. It was pretty nice, and it already reeked of the cigarette smoke Judy made.
"Judy, Carol told you not to smoke in front of children." Katie said. It was Judy's first week as their nanny, and Katie was just starting to give her a hard time.
"Katie, Carol told you not to bug the shit out of me." Judy said, mimicking Katie's voice. "Besides, I'm not smoking in front of children."
"Well we're teenagers."
"Well there you go. Besides, you don't want to keep my from my cigarette, do you?" She asked, peering at them thought her rearview mirror. They both slowly shook their heads no.
"Where are all the kids?" Nicole asked.
"Home. Asleep."
"You just left them there?"
"Amazingly enough, Morgan is home, so, no, I didn't just leave them there." She said, and blew some smoke out her window.
"Oh, okay."
"Do you ladies need anything before we head home?" She asked, pulling out onto the road.
"Nah, we're fine." Maybe Judy wasn't that bad. For a witch.
"Are you really a witch?" Nicole asked suddenly.
"NICOLE" Katie said, elbowing her.
"No, no, I'm glad that she asked. Yes, I am a witch. Every Halloween, I get out my broomstick and I jump of the fucking roof. No, I am not a witch."
"Oh." Nicole said, leaning back on her seat. She suddenly felt very stupid.
Once they had pulled into the garage, Judy jumped out. She was even weird looking to Katie. Judy was around 5'2" had shoulder length black hair, and black cat eye glasses, and almost always wore black. She was a stocky woman, but she wasn't really fat, but she wasn't really thin, either. She was probably around 30, or maybe not even that old. And she smoked. A lot. She said she was trying to quit for the children, but Katie didn't see her trying to cut it down any.
"Carol isn't home." Katie noticed.
"I'm not going to lie now, either. She doesn't want to be home. I told you, she has a boyfriend, but no one believes me." Judy said, slamming the door to the suburban.
"Well, I believe you now." Nicole said.
"How do you know she had a boyfriend?" Katie asked.
"I just know." Judy said, giving them an eerie look before heading inside the house.
"She's creepy." Nicole said, as she slammed the door.
"No shit, shirlock. You don't have to live with her."
"Oh, pipe down, you've only been here a few days." Nicole said, opening the door to the house.
"Yeah, and don't you think it's a little strange how she already had everything unpacked? This isn't exactly a small house, Nicole."
"What is it, eight, nine bedroom?" She asked.
"Ten. But three are in the basement. Good thing that's where carol decided to sleep."
The girl laughed, and went into the kitchen where Judy was getting Ben, or Little Ben, as they called him, a drink of water.
"Now I'll let you take it upstairs if you promise not to spill it." She said, handing him his glass of water.
Little Ben was Katie's little brother, who went basically mute when her father died. He loved his dad, and still didn't really understand why he never came home. He was the cutest little boy, with sandy blonde hair and big brown eyes, and he was very shy. His favorite person in the world though, seemed to be Judy.
He gave a little solemn nod to Judy in thanks, and padded back up to his bed.
"Do you ladies want the TV down here?" She asked, taking out a jar of sandwich pickles.
"Um, no." they said, eyeing the pickles.
"What are you going to do with those?" Nicole asked.
"I'm going to use them tonight in one of my spells…why?"
They girl just rushed upstairs, and they could hear Judy laughing all the way.
Once they were in the hallway, they both gave each other scared glances.
"I told you she was a witch."
"She's not a witch, she's just trying to scare you."
"So, where is everyone?" Nicole asked, peeking into the bathroom she shared with Morgan.
"What do you mean, everyone?"
"I mean, all your sisters. I figured Sandra would be around here somewhere." Nicole said, sitting down on her bed.
"You called?" Sandra asked, poking her head into Katie's doorway.
"No, now get lost, Miss Prissy."
"Shut up, piss ant." She said, and slammed the door.
"What's with her?" Nicole asked, walking over to where her stuff was dumped.
"She's being herself like her shrink told her to."
"Shrink? That girl is twelve, and she has a shrink?"
"yeah, I mean, don't you think she needs it?"
"Well, I don't really know her…" Nicole trailed off.
"Trust me, you don't want to." Katie said as she walked into her closet in search of her pajamas.
Sandra was Katie's twelve year old sister, who was a pain in everyone's ass, in Katie's opinion. She had long blonde hair she kept impossibly perfect, and she had baby blue eyes that got their way every time. The only person who really saw through her was Judy. She was the only one in the family brave enough to tell her to pipe down, except for Katie.
"what do you want to do?" She asked, walking into the bathroom to change.
"Let's go down in your basement and play pool." Nicole said.
"You're on!" she shouted from the bathroom. Nicole grabbed her pajamas out of her bag, and shut the door of Katie's room. She changed, then went over to Katie's dresser.
"You still have a lot of stuff to unpack." She called to her.
"I know." Katie said, coming out of the bathroom. She walked over to one wall where there were at least ten more boxes to be unpacked. All she had out were her clothes to put in her closet, her bed things, and a few little things like her clock and her rug. Her room had a bathroom connected with Morgan's room, and a walk in closet near the bathroom. It had a high ceiling and a skylight that was very neat. The room was painted light blue and had dark blue carpeting, just for Katie.
Morgan was Katie's older sister, who was seventeen. She had long hair just like her sister's, but hers was a darker blonde and had lighter streaks. She had green eyes, and was quite a bit taller than Katie. She was just one of Katie's five other sisters. There was Kristen, the baby, who was only one and a half, and next was little Ben, who was three. Melissa was six, Madison was soon to be five, and Krista was ten. That left Sandra, and of course Katie.
Katie's mother had loved children, and she didn't work, so she always had time to stay home and watch them. She died giving birth to Kristen, a few days later.
"We going?" Nicole asked.
"Yeah."
"Do you want me to help you unpack some things when we get back?"
"Yeah, that' would be great. Me and Morgan were the only ones that wouldn't let Judy unpack our rooms. She did everyone else's in one day."
"That's not right. See, I told you she was a witch."
"Nicole, she's not a witch."
"Then how do you explain that?"
"I don't know, but I know that she isn't."
"Uh huh." Said Nicole. She wasn't convinced.
The two girls walked down the stairs closest to her, which led down to the kitchen.
"Judy, we'll be in the basement, playing pool."
"Okay, I'm going to bed soon, so it'll be dark next time you come up."
"Okay." With that, they opened the door and went downstairs.
The basement was the most fun room in the house for teenagers. They had their big screen TV, a pool table, and a couple of pinball machines down there, so it was a nice basement.
"How old is this house, anyway?" Katie asked.
"Well, they started building it a year ago, and they knew a lot of families were moving to Tulsa, so that's why they made it so big. But no one lived here before you, I don't think. Not enough time."
"Oh, I just wanted to know, because it smelled really new when we got here."
"Yeah."
Nicole lived one street over, in another very nice neighborhood. Her house was almost directly behind Katie's, so you could jump the fence and cut through a small patch of woods.
"This will be nice, living so close to you."
"Yeah, we'll see a lot of each other."
"the only problem is, I'm going to New York for two weeks here, pretty soon."
"Really?"
"yeah. S you'll be on your own."
"Oh. When does school start here?"
"Um, usually September first. It might be later, I don't know.
"We started on the 20th of August last year."
"Yuck." Nicole said, picking up a stick.
"Yeah, I know."
It was only June 4th, and katie had moved the day she got out of school, on the first. They would both be freshmen at Tulsa High, next year.
"So, how old is that Zac guy I danced with?"
"He's our age."
"Oh." Katie tried to say it as nonchalantly as she could.
"Katie, I hate to say it, but he's home schooled."
"oh." She said.
"But don't worry. He might do high school yet. His brothers did."
"Cool." She said, and took aim.
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