After about an hour of having sat through the torture of Brittney and Bella giving me a makeover and then another half an hour of them arguing about what outfit to force me to wear I was finally ready.

I ended up in a red dress that my mom had got me for my cousin's wedding which had been put in the very back of my closet to be forgotten the minute I had gotten home from the wedding. Brittney had put my hair up in a fishtail braid and Bella had done my makeup which was, to my great relief, mostly neutral tones except for red lipstick.

Brittney wore a white top and a skirt while Bella wore a simple blue dress. Looking in the mirror, I felt overdressed, but Brittney and Bella assured me that I wasn't.

Before we left for the party we went to Kent's room to make sure the boys had not gotten into another fight while we were getting ready. When we got there, Bryan and Kent were on opposite sides of the room, both on their phones, completely ignoring each other's existence.

"We are leaving for the party!" Brittney said, then turned to Kent. "Before you say anything, I know to get Ash back by curfew, I won't let her drink too much, and I'll try to keep the boys away from her."

"Fine, but I'm still not happy with this." Kent grumbled.

"You don't have to be, just know that she is in good hands." Brittney said but then burst out laughing and everyone else soon joined in.

"You sounded like you were promising to fulfill someone's last wish or something! I never knew you could sound that serious!" Bella said between giggles.

"I know right? Here I was trying to sound mature so Kent wouldn't stalk us at the party!" Brittney said, before laughing again.

"Alright, that's enough. We should leave before Kent insists on coming with us." I said quietly to Brittney and Bella when I eventually stopped laughing.

"Wait!" Bryan yelled to me as we headed to the door. "Just so you know, I might stop by the party really quickly before heading home, so just know that I am there on my free will and not being paid to be there to spy on you by Kent or anything."

"Got it, for the record I'm not planning on doing anything that would get me into trouble with Kent, so I wouldn't really care if you were spying for him but thanks for the heads up." I said, smiling a little before going out the door and into the driver's seat of Kent's and my car where Brittney and Bella were already sitting, waiting impatiently for me to start the car.

As I pulled out of the driveway I looked in the rear view mirror and saw Bryan on the steps leading up to the house, watching us leave. As soon as he realized I was looking at him, he smirked at me, before quickly turning and heading back into the house.

I wondered briefly what he was up to but I was distracted by Brittney cranking the car radio up as loud as it would go, probably since Havana which is one of her favorite songs, was playing.

I rolled my eyes as she started belting out the lyrics, not caring that the whole neighborhood could probably hear her before turning my attention to the darkening road ahead.