Chapter 2

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"No" The three of them say at the same time. Our hopeful looks get wiped away by frowns.

"Guys, come on, you can be there, just please please please let us have the party!" Summer pleads after seconds of silence and staring between us and their poker faces.

Pouting out my lip and widening my eyes, I look directly at Xavier. This puppy dog face worked on him when I was younger. Hopefully it still does the trick. I smrik internally.

"Come on, Xav, we're getting eighteen after all!" I beg. His hard facade vanishes and his eyes soften. Just a tiny bit. At least his thinking about it.

He let's sighs loudly, knowing I've won. That gets Aiden's and Tristans attention.

"Are you seriously thinking about it!?" Annoying butthole throws his hands up in the air.

"What's it to you?" I question, crossing my arms over my chest.

He sends me a glare but doesn't answer.

"Have the party," we squeal as the words leave his mouth. "But," he continues, we quiet down and look at him. I bite my lip, to keep my lip from twitching upwards. "We're all going to be there." He finishes.

The both of us jump up and down excitedly like some twelve year olds and squeal, ignoring the two holes burning the sides of our faces.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" We say simultaneously before skipping upstairs to my room.

As soon as she opens my room she runs and jumps on my bed. I walk over and lay next to her. "I'm so excited," I mumble, grinning widely.

We both stare up at the ceiling in silence. Me thinking about the party and her probably doing the same. How will Jason act if he knows my brothers are here. Maybe I shouldn't tell him. He might not be as touchy as he usually is when he wants to show off that we're together. The fact annoys me, same with every other thing he does to put some kind of reassurance of our relationship in people's minds.

He can randomly start calling me 'baby' around people. He never calls me that. Just Aves or babe.

"When are you telling them?" She asks and I turn my head to the side to look at her. "About Jason." She says realising I was confused.

"Oh, well, I don't know, when do you think I should?" I ask looking back at the white ceiling.

Please say never.

I know for a fact she won't say that.

"Now, at dinner." My eyes widen. I sit up against my headboard, looking at her. She has a wide grin on her face, as she braids her red hair over the side of her shoulder.

"I can't tell them today! It's too early. The poor guy will die at eighteen. I mean imagine," I bring my hands up in front of me, pulling them apart slowly as if making an invisible sign. "Cause of death; murdered by ex- girlfriend's brothers after revealing their relationship." I gasp dramatically.

"You forgot to add," she makes the same invisible sign with her hands, "and their best friend." I give her a are-you-serious look. She smiles wider.

She always smiles. Ahh, happy people.

"Aves, the longer you keep it from them the worse will their reaction be, and you've kept it long enough, don't you think? I mean a year?" She turns serious before laying down.

"I'll do it." She nods happily. "Only if you tell them about Asher." She frowns but eventually agrees.

A few more hours are spent in my room with nail painting, party planning and ideas of how to tell the guys about the other guys.

"Are you ready?" Summer asks as she pulls her red hair into a ponytail. She'll end up bald if she keeps the hair styling up.

"No" I sigh and open the door.

We walk down the hallway and down the stairs, passing by the nearly empty foyer, except the round table in the middle, past the living room, in to the kitchen and through the dinner room entrance.

Everyone is sitting around the black table in the middle of the room. Xavier is sitting at one end while Aiden is sitting at the other. Loud conversation is going on between everyone and we go unnoticed as we take our seats. Me taking a seat in between Summer and Zach, with Tristan, Hunter, Parker and Ashitn in front of us.

A big happy family.

"Do it, now," she whispers in my ear and I swallow my spaghetti. Everyone's too loud and too engrossed in their own conversations to pay attention to our whispering. I hope.

"I'm not ready, I can't tell them about Jason now." I whisper back. Putting another forkful in my mouth.

"We can do it at the same time"

"What so we're just gonna blurt it out?" I ask surprised. Summer was never one to say something serious without a prologue."Ye-" She half snaps because Tristan cuts her off.

"What are you two whispering about?" He asks curiously and we look at him, only to find everyone staying at us.

"Um um" I stutter and feel a sharp pain on my knee. "Ow!" I look at Summer who gives me a tell-them-now look. I sigh and turn my attention to Xavier. "We have to tell you something."

Xavier frowns and I see his eyes fill with worry, I bet they'll change into anger in a few seconds. "Well tell us then." Hunter says and I look at Summer and she nods, grabbing my hand. "We h-" We get cut off by Ashton.

"Are you girls together!? I knew you two weren't just best friends. I just wanted to say that it's totally fine with your relationship as long as you don't make out in front of me."

We all look at him with mouths wide open.

"What are you talking about?" Summer furrow s her eyebrows.

"You change in front of each other, you go to the bathroom together. You even sleep in the same bed." He rants loudly before going back to his normal voice. "But that's fine." Tilting his head to the side.

"Ash, we're best friends of course we do all you said together?" Summer questions at the same time I shout.

"We're not together!"

The guys laugh and Ashton looks down at his plate, embarrassed. "Oh, well go on." He says, his cheeks turning a light shade of pink.

"Okay, so we wanted to tell you that" Summer looks at me and I nod. "We have boyfriends." We look around the table at everyone.

Hunter drops his fork on his plate, Tristan swallows hard, making a disgusting sound and everyone else just look at us expecting us to shout this is just a joke. I assume. They're sadly getting their hopes up, it isn't a joke and the more the deadly silence continues the more nerve wracking this dinner gets.

I don't think I've ever heard such loud silence in this house before. Just once before. It was like this for three months after mom died, but none of us was in the same room as the other. I shake that memory away.

"So...?" I awkwardly trail off.

Xavier clears his throat. Me and Summer look at him. My heart nearly beats out if my chest as I wait for his next words. "You have what?" He asks dryly. I take a sip of my water. The cold liquid helping my dry throat.

I needed that.

"We have boyfriends." We repeat lowly.

"You're not allowed to have boyfriends." Aiden says loud enough for everyone to hear. I roll my eyes at his antics.

"Stop acting like this is any of your buisness." I galre at him.

"It is my fucking buisness!" He snaps angrily. I don't miss the clenched jaw and fists on top of the table. Why is he so damn protective? He's not my brother and he better start acting like it.

"It shouldn't be, you're not my brother!" I reply childishly. Kind off. Its the truth after all.

"I fucking know that." He grits out. The way his silver ring digs into his tattooed skin as he does so looks painful. I internally wince.

"Wait, so you have boyfriends as in a boy. A boy you're in a r-relationship with." Hunter speaks next. Xavier and Aiden clear their throats at that.

I would smile at him if it wasn't for the annoying butthole that's currently staring-no glaring at me. Hunter's always the peacemaker. Always talking things through with me and he listens instead of getting into conclusions and shouting at me, like all of my other brothers. And Aiden.

"Yes." Summer replies.

"You're not fucking allowed to." Tristan grits out. The poor fork in his hand is going to break in half if he keeps holding it in such a death grip.

"You're not the one to decide that." I mimick his voice.

"Break up with them." Xavier speaks for the first time. I'm not surprised my younger siblings haven't talked yet. I'm certain that they're all looking at us while trying to bite back their smiles.

"No." I look him in the eyes. "Why would I do that? I like Jason." I try to keep my voice calm.

A fork drops. Clanking against the porcelain beneath it.

"Jason!? Jason in the football team, Jason?" Zach gasps. I nod.

"Well, let's meet them then." All of our heads snap to Xavier. He leans back against his chair, the navy blue suit of his stretching along his tall frame.

"Yeah, I would like to meet the so called Justin." Aiden's deep voice agrees. I grit my teeth.

"His name is Jason." He smirks at me. I want to slap it off. "And you're not meeting them." Summer says.

"Then break up with them." Tristan shrugs. As if that will happen.

"We won't do anything. We'll just introduce ourselves." Xavier resurs, shrugging one shoulder in a careless way.

"And your caveman ways." I mumble.

"Great! Your little boyfriends are coming here for dinner tomorrow!" Parker claps his hand.

I share an exasperated look with Summer.

.......

I walk out of my room and see Summer. She nods in approval at what I'm wearing and leads me downstairs to the kitchen.

"Hello, Mrs. Claire." We greet and she turns around from the stove. She's wearing a pink dress that ends under her knee with an white aproon wrapped around her waist. Her short brown hair is curled up and she has a bright smile across her face, showing all of her white teeth. "Hello, you two look very beautiful." She says in her thick italian accent.

She's one of the maids that work in the house. She's more like family though. I've known her all my life and she's been working for my parents and eventually Xavier for a long time. Alike Danny's situation.

"Thank you, what are you cooking?" Summer asks peering into the frizzling pan.

"Oh I'm cooki-" She stops talking when Xavier barges into the kitchen, shouting something at the phone held up agisnt his ear. "Comunque! Voglio i miei soldi adesso!"He hangs up, slamming the phone down on the counter. I feel bad. For the phone.
(Still! I want my money now!)

Even if I'm half italian, the only thing I understood was miei, I think it means my, but I'm not completely sure.

"Va tutto bene?" (Is everything fine?) Mrs. Claire asks Xavier and I can tell she's worried. "Si" He says and turns to me and Summer.

"You girls look beautiful but, take that lipstick off, Avery." He says pointing at my red lips. I roll my eyes. Like heck I am.
(Is everything fine?)

Aiden comes in soon after, jaw clenched. His grey armani suit hugs his huge biceps. I'm sure they're the size of my tighs. Looking away from him, I turn to the fridge before he can see me checking him out.

Did I just admit that I did that? I shake my head. I just looked at what he was wearing.

"Well, don't you look nice? But that lipstick, is just a big no." I hear Aiden's voice from behind me before a hand comes around my mouth and wipes the red colour off my lips. Well, smudges all around my lips.

"Aiden!" I turn around. He chuckles when he sees the lipstick all the way up to my nose and the sides of my cheeks.

"Go take it off. You're too innocent for that colour." He mumbles the last part to himself as he walks out the kitchen.

Mrs. Claire gives me a sly smile and turns back to her cooking. I didn't even notice that the other two left.

I make my way out, not before bumping into Tristan who laughs in my face. Idiot.

Xavier insisted on Aiden being here. Actually he didn't have something to insist for, it was kind of obvious that Aiden would be here today. Like any other day. He spends a lot of time here. He even sleeps over sometimes when he and Xav come back from the company late at night. The dude has his assigned guest room for freak's shake.

They don't have a company together, their companies just have some important cooperation. I don't know anymore details. Just that our father passed it down to Xav when he turned eighteen and that Aiden took his dad's company as the legal heir a couple of years back, as soon as he turned twenty-one.

I wipe the lipstick off and look at myself in the mirror. Maybe I am too innocent to wear that lipstick. I recall Aiden's words from earlier. They're stuck with me for some reason. Grabbing the lipstick from the side of the counter in the bathroom, I examine it before putting it inside the cabinet, making a mental note to give it to Summer later. It matches her red hair.

Instinctively smiling, I walk out of my bathroom and see Summer. Clad in a pair of ripped jeans and an oversized t-shirt, she tugs a strand if her hair anxiously.

"I don't even know why I am this nervous." She let's out an awkward laugh with cough at the end.

"Nervous?" Summer asks me, I nod.

We walk out of my door just as the doorbell rings. We look at each other with wide eyes and rush to the stairs. I see Xavier walking to the door and I run down the marbled staircase and realise it was not a good idea. Probably one of the worse I've ever had.

Just as the door opens and I see Jason and Asher standing there my foot slips and I fall down, making a loud thud as my body collapses on the stairs and a sharp pain goes through my knee.

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