Adriana's pov

Friday night

From Kayla to Adriana: I'm here!! It's freezing outside open up!

From Adriana to Kayla: Coming!

Let me rewind a little to explain the current situation:

Few hours ago

"Adriana, tonight Jace's family and ours are going to a restaurant, it's two hours away, and it's fancy, mom wanted me to tell you to dress up" Ashton says before leaving my room and shutting it.

What shocked me the most is that mom is actually gonna be here.

What stressed me the most is seeing jerk face, is he still mad at me? Is he gonna give the cold shoulder just like before? Well Ashton did tell me that I broke his heart, so I'm sure that I'm the last person he wants to see.

I hope that tonight will go well.

The entire afternoon, I didn't do anything special, I just watched divergent for the 100th time, shaved and baked some cookies, did you expect me to watch an amazing movie without an amazing snack? Not really.

After that, I decided to go take a shower to get clean from all of the flour in my hair, and possibly chocolate all over my face.

Once I was done, I took my phone from my nightstand and texted Kayla to come help me out to pick out an outfit for tonight, I wanted to look even prettier, yes, I'll admit it, I want to look even better than usual for jerk face, and when I admitted that to Kayla she called me only to scream in excitement, she almost broke my eardrum because of her screaming, it still hurts till now.

I told her everything since last week, I haven't seen her much, so I kinda updated her, how her words affected me, and I put this fear behind me, how I fainted outside school and jerk face carried me to the infirmary, Ashton's and I's talk, anyways, we talked for an hour before hanging up, and now she's here, in exactly one hour, mom is coming back from work and she will directly pick us up to go to the restaurant, she is getting ready at work, she doesn't even have time to come back home, I'm still seething with anger till now, she has time to go to a fancy dinner but not to spend time with her kids.

End of flashback.

"Hey" I say as I open the door wide for Kayla to enter.

"Hello Adri" She greets me and wastes no time to walk up the stairs to my room.

"Wasting no time I see" I joke as I shut my bedroom door.

"You have" She checks the time on her phone "Exactly 60 minutes to get ready."

"Well that's plenty of time" I tell her.

"Not for me, I take my time, that's called art" She answers.

"Fine" I roll my eyes at her before sitting on the bed.

One hour later, Kayla puts down her makeup brush and grin at me.

"What?" I ask furrowing my eyebrows.

"Jerk face is gonna be drooling when he sees you, you look hot" She teases me.

I walk towards my mirror and look at my hair, my hair is looks stunning, it's curled, the waves are falling on my shoulders beautifully.

My makeup is far from natural, it's bold, but it doesn't layer on my skin, making it look like I have 10 pounds of product on my face, it looks smooth and pretty.

"Now go change! I want to see your dress!" Kayla rushes me out of my room.

Once I'm all dressed, I go back to my room and I hear Kayla gasp "Who are you? And what did you do with my bestie Adriana?"

I roll my eyes at her playfully and turn to look at the mirror, this time I gasp myself, I look hot.

"Adriana mom's here we need to go-" He cuts himself off when he sees me.

His eyes scan every inch of me and stop at my dress, okay I feel very uncomfortable.

"Where do you think you're going dressed like that?" He questions me raising his eyebrow.

"To the restaurant of course" I answer him in a 'duh' tone.

"We're going to a restaurant Adriana not a strip club" He adds.

"I know that, now come on mom's waiting" I use that as an excuse to leave.

"You're not leaving wearing that" He points at my dress.

"What's wrong with it?" I ask obliviously.

"Adriana you're not gonna tell me that you don't see anything wrong with this dress, I wear more than that when I take my shower!" He scolds me.

"Well that's not my problem" I huff crossing my arms on my chest.

"Kids where are you, we're gonna be late!" I hear my mom yell down the stairs, wow, it's been awhile that I haven't heard her voice.

"Fine, but you're wearing a jacket" I cut him off "That I'm gonna remove in the restaurant" I finish his sentence.

He glares at me and I say "Take it or leave it"

"Fine" He huffs.

Taking a jacket was already a part of my outfit, it's freezing and it's dark outside, I don't wanna get sick.

I text Kayla a big thank you before rushing out of the house in my 7 inches heels, yes I know it might seem like it's too much, but it doesn't bother me, I taught myself to run with those.

"I still wonder how you can run in those" Ashton points out as he sits in the passenger seat.

"Well first, you stole my seat, and second it's no biggie" I tell him before turning my attention to the window.

If you haven't figured out yet, I don't want to talk to my mom, I don't even know if she gets to be called like that anymore.

"So" My mom clears her throat "How have you been guys?" She asks.

I mentally scoff, the first thing she says is 'how have you been guys', no apology for her lack of presence in our life no nothing, wow, I'm very surprised, note the sarcasm.

Isabella (A/N: It's her mom's name in case you forgot) took the guess that no one wants to talk, well no one wants to talk to her, I know that Ashton is as upset as I am.

I'm brought back to reality by the buzzing of my phone in my purse, I pull it out and see a notification pop up from, Ashton?

From Ashton to Adriana: I know that you're upset with mom.

From Adriana to Ashton: And I know that you're upset with her.

From Ashton to Adriana: It's true, but do you want to give her a chance? I mean we could try to talk to her and fix things.

From Adriana to Ashton: Ashton, I stopped calling her mom the moment she asked us how we have been, do you actually expect me to give her a chance, she doesn't even deserve the mom figure.

From Ashton to Adriana: Wow, I'm kinda shocked to hear this from you, well she does kinda deserve to be called by her name, she was never here for us to call her mom.

From Adriana to Ashton: Yeah tell me about it, you and I only have each other, and she has the nerve to ask us how we have been, while she could've just called, JUST called Ashton, she didn't even call once a week to check up on us, I doubt that work is taking that much time with her, I mean did you hear her come back home to get her dress? Does she sleep at work? Feels like she just created a new life for herself leaving us behind like we're some stranger living in her house!

From Ashton to Adriana: I understand how you feel Adriana, I feel like that too, does she even care about us anymore?! I feel like the next thing she does is dump us on the street.

From Adriana to Ashton: Well that might happen soon you don't know.

Someone clears their throat making me and Ashton look up "What's got you glued to your phone like that??" Isabella asks.

Nobody answers so she starts again "Look I know that I haven't been here for you, but I am here now, for tonight" She mumbles the last part.

"Wow, you are such a horrible mother! How could you tell us to give you another chance if you're just staying for the night!" I yell loosing my temper.

"For real Isabella! You were never there for us and you expect us to open up to you and talk to you while you're staying for just the night!" Ashton lashes out on her making me shocked, he has never spoken to Isabella like that, even if he was seething with anger.

"I'm sorry guys it's just-" I cut her off "It's just that what huh, you couldn't have called once a week to check up on us?!?! Just once a week Isabella, I don't think that work takes all of your time! Are we even your children! Looks like you've moved on with your life pretty well, and on the way you left us behind too! What are you hiding huh?! A new husband?! With kids maybe?! You don't get to be called mother, because you were never one!" I yell at her, taking out every bit of anger I had in me.

She opens her mouth to argue, but closes it right after, that's what I thought, she's wrong, how could she find something to say?!

I take out my phone and look at the time, ugh one more hour and we're finally at the restaurant.

From Adriana to Ashton: I'm not coming back with her.

From Ashton to Adriana: What do you mean??

From Adriana to Ashton: I'm gonna send a text to jerk face to ask him if I could ride back home with him, you in?

From Ashton to Adriana: Yeah sure, I can text him if you want.

From Adriana to Ashton: Thanks for proposing but no, I need to talk to him sooner or later, now that you know that I like him.

From Ashton to Adriana: And I still don't understand why I'm not chopping his head of right now for thinking of my sister.

From Adriana to Ashton: Because you love me and you love him and you want us to be happy.

From Ashton to Adriana: Yeah probably.

I chuckle at our conversation before opening the chat with jerk face.

From Adriana to Jerk face: Hey.

If you think that my text is too dry well that's your problem, I'm not spending one hour to debate on what should I send him, yes I like him, but no I'm not a psychopath.

From jerk face to Adriana: What?

I could tell that he's irritated.

From Adriana to jerk face: Hum, I wanted to ask you if Ashton and I could ride back with you.

From jerk face to Adriana: Why?

Could he be more dry than that?

From Adriana to jerk face: Can we just go with you please?

I'm not in the mood of answering his questions, again yes I like him, but I'm not turning into a softie for his ass, I have my attitude and my stubbornness, whether I like him or not, my attitude is still the same.

From jerk face to Adriana: Fine.

I know that he's growling behind his screen.

From Adriana to jerk face: Thank you.

And with that I ended our conversation and sent a thumbs up to Ashton, meaning that jerk face agreed to let us ride back with him.

An hour later Isabella stops the car and says "We're here."