She thought she just might move in with her father who had an apartment on the other side of the Florida Peninsula in St. Petersburg. But living with him would only create additional problems within the already disrupted family. Ellen had always been a bone of contention in the family anyway, as she had been her father's favorite and he had pampered her somewhat. He had acted rather indifferently toward Jennifer during the weeks that preceded her parents' separation, and Jennifer had sided with their mother, making matters worse, as her father had become quite emotionally demanding on Ellen and had flaunted his feelings as though he wanted to make the rest of the household jealous. It had been during this period that her sister began running around with that wild college crowd and had been introduced to marijuana. Jennifer had been a senior, and at that time Ellen was an entering freshman at the same Florida community college. They had commuted each day in Jennifer's car, and the two pretty young sisters had gotten into some deep conversations on their way to school about what life would be like after the divorce. There were moments when Ellen had almost felt that her sister wanted to confide in her about something that had occurred before their parents' final breakup, but the older girl had held back, as though she were afraid to hurt Ellen's feelings towards her parents.
But now all that was finished. The closeness she had once felt to Jennifer could never exist between them again after what she had just seen down on the beach. Yes, her own sister was nothing but a cheap little whore and probably always had been one, and Ellen had been gullible and loyal enough not to believe the pointed hints and insinuations that Bob had constantly been making about her.