"Don't thank me. If it were my decision, you'd be huffing it." Jocelyn snipped bitterly, still sulking over the fact that her brother had welcomed the boy who was quickly becoming the bane of her existence into the car with them. Her brother was tormenting her, and she knew it, but any complaints she might have thought to make would only be met with a smirk and further teasing by her brother, who no doubt was enjoying the torment he was inflicting on her. Aidan may have thought he was doing her a favor, after all, what teenage girl wouldn’t want the attention of a boy like Tora, would probably would have been considered cute if it weren’t for his attitude. Jocelyn, however, wanted absolutely no parts of it. She didn’t want his attention, and she certainly did not want him anywhere near her. She was out of luck, and as Tora climbed inside the car, Jocelyn could only stare irately at her brother and unwanted guest, hoping that the car ride would be faster than she was imagining it would be. 

Climbing into the front seat, Jocelyn slammed the car door shut, snapping her seatbelt with an audible click. The moment Tora opened his mouth, she could feel the lid of her right eye start to twitch, the corners of her lips flickering up and down in annoyance. Aidan glanced over the back seat, peering curiously over at Tora with a wide grin on his face, absorbing every word the boy spoke. “Tora, huh? I thought you were Tony. I didn’t know Joc had another friend…and one that wouldn’t mind dating her at that.” He reached over to pat his sister, who looked on the verge of having a seizure, on the shoulder, chuckling quietly. “See, look at that! Made a friend, now it looks like you might have found yourself a boyfriend. And you said you wouldn’t fit in here. It only took you two years too!” Aidan might have thought that he was encouraging her, but for Jocelyn, all he was doing was adding to the list of reasons that she needed to avoid Tora as if he were the plaque.

“Don’t listen to him, Aidan. He’s only saying that because he knows it’ll set me off. Just take him home so I can get some peace. I’ve dealt with enough today.” She had yet to learn what Tora’s game was, but dating her was certainly not on the list, and she had no clue why he’d try to imply that it was to her brother. Glancing over into the backseat at Tora, she growled quietly at him, her eyes narrowing and brow furrowing into a hateful scowl. “And you! Stop talking like that! He doesn’t need to be encouraged. Just sit there and not talk and we’ll be golden.” 

The line of cars began to take off, and Aidan eased into traffic, smirking as he listened in on the two. He was used to his sister’s threats, but he wasn’t used to her putting so much of a fuss. It was easy to set his sister off, but the boy in the backseat didn’t have to put even the smallest amount of effort to get her going, which was both entertaining and confusing to watch. “Joc, chill already. He’s not doing anything but giving you a hard time, and with the way you’re acting I can see why. What’s got you so wound up today?” Jocelyn was often high strung when she got out of school, but the minute that she got away from school she settled down, but today it didn’t seem like she was ready or willing to calm down at all. Based on his knowledge, he could only assume one thing. “Did you get into another fight? You know Aunt Alicia’s going to be pissed if you did.”

“Almost. Stupid twits held me back. If they hadn’t I’d have pounded that little brat dead in her empty head.” Jocelyn proclaimed, turning back in her seat to stare out the windshield. She wasn’t embarrassed about telling her brother she’d almost gotten into a fight, not when the odds had been stacked against her and she hadn’t backed down. She was prone to violence, and had a wicked temper, but she would have thought that by now the girls in her school would have learned their lesson, but they continued to get on her, and Jocelyn continued to fight back. It was a vicious cycle, one that would not end until the idiots she went to school with decided to leave her alone. “Stupid Jenna….I swear I wish someone would superglue her stupid lips together, or I could knock her teeth down her throat to shut her up.” She was fully capable of knocking the girl around like a ragdoll, even with Jenna’s friends there as backup, but the only thing that prevented her from doing so was the fact that she would get into trouble, while the walking Barbie wouldn’t even get a slap on the wrist.

“Well don’t. At least not in school.” Aidan stated, focusing his attention on the road while listening to his sister rant about the girls in her school. To change the subject, Aidan glanced at the boy in the backseat through the rearview mirror, curious about who he was, and why he seemed to have an interest in his sister. “And what’s your story? I haven’t heard Joc talk about you, so you must be new or something. Or did you just happen to cross paths with my sister and end up getting punched in the face? That’s usually how it works with her.”