The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson by Paige Toon

Author:Paige Toon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 1471118789
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

‘Good time?’ Johnny asks when we’re safely back inside Davey’s limo. There’s a sharpness to his tone and I’m not sure why.

‘Yeah,’ I reply.

‘So you met Jack Mitchell.’

‘Is that his surname? We didn’t get that far.’

‘You looked like you were getting pretty far to me.’ He gives me a pointed look.

‘Johnny,’ Meg interrupts with a frown. ‘Leave her be.’

‘You don’t need to fight my battles for me.’ The words are out before I know it. Meg looks surprised.

‘Hey, chill out, chick, no one’s battling anyone,’ Johnny quickly says, his green eyes narrowing with apprehension.

‘Sorry, force of habit,’ I reply, my face heating up. Meg looks a bit put out as she turns and stares through the window. I notice Johnny put a protective hand on her knee.

Suddenly I feel annoyed. And over the course of the short journey home, my bitterness grows and eats away at me. How dare he act like he cares about what I get up to? Why am I even here? He’s not a father to me. He’s no one.

No, sorry, my mistake, I think sarcastically. He’s Johnny Jefferson. The big celebrity. Somebody.

But it feels like he’s nobody to me.

I’m fuming by the time we get back to his house. Slam-doors fuming. Annoyingly, Davey is waiting to close the car door behind me, but the front door is mine.

BANG!

‘What the hell?’ Johnny spins around.

As soon as I do it, I realise that I might have woken Barney and Phoenix, but I pretend not to care. ‘Sorry, didn’t mean to wake your precious children,’ I say sarcastically.

Meg’s eyes widen with shock. She gives Johnny a significant look and sets off up the stairs. I know she’s checking on the boys and relieving the babysitter, but I’m glad she left us to it. Now Johnny will have to face me himself.

‘You’ve had too much to drink,’ Johnny says calmly and it winds me up even more.

‘Screw you!’

‘You’ve only just got here and you’re sounding like an American.’

I storm towards him. ‘Would you rather I said fuck you? Fine. Fuck you!’

‘Hey!’ he raises his voice and I can see that I’m getting to him.

‘Take it outside!’ Meg hisses from the landing as a door upstairs opens and I see the concerned-looking babysitter venture out. I glare up at Meg and then Johnny stalks to the door leading out on to the terrace and slides it open. He points outside, his jaw twitching with irritation as he stares at me. I stomp across the living room and step over the threshold. He slides the door shut.

‘What’s up with you? I thought you had fun tonight. Why are you acting like a brat?’

‘Why should you care?’ I bite back.

‘You’re going to have to help me here,’ he says with forced calm. ‘I haven’t had to deal with many teenage girls in my time.’

‘My mum was just a teenager when you shagged her and got her pregnant. Do you ever think about that?’

He reels backwards and even in the low-level light I can see that I’ve stunned him.

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