Chapter 19: Jaylee

When aunt comes into the spare room, I'm styling my hair in a sleek ponytail with a tendril.

I'm already wearing the pink dress I faked I'd be wearing, as well as pink lip gloss. I planned to wear the silver eyeshadow as soon as I was away from her.

"You look amazing," she says.

Barefooted, I get up from the mirror.

"Thanks."

"Aunt, can you lend me the white heels, I love?" As if I'm going to wear them, I ask.

She goes off and returns with them, and while I'm putting them on, she gives me a long lecture about not consuming alcoholic beverages at the party and not having premarital sex.

I side-eyed her on premarital sex, and she giggled, ashamed.

Mom lost her virginity when she married my dad, and my aunt lost her before getting married.

"Just don't have sex until you're old enough," she warns.

"I'm not going there to have sex," I say.

"Anyway, if a guy is interested in me and I want to, we could easily do it in the bathroom stall at school or at the back of the school, just