"Uhhh... I think, I should run." I said, sheepishly, before trying to escape.

I was caught before I could even reach the door.

"Ugh. Leave me alone." I grumbled.

"No." Damon said.

"Nathan! Max! Stop eating popcorn and help me." I yelled.

"No. This is too precious." They said, as they continued eating.

I think I know the answer to the out of syllabus question.

Max got his phone out and put it before me, a smirk on his face.

"I don't get to see my baby's handsome face that often."

"Aww.. My baby must be missing me."

Two recordings.

Both resulting in a lifelong embarrassment.

That pighead is going to rub it in my face forever.

"Give that to me." I said, launching at Max, jerking Damon's hand away from me.

Max stood up and ran.

"I already sent it." He said, laughing.

"Then keep running for your life." I gritted.

I'm dead, if that pighead hears it.

After climbing up the stairs, I got hold of the back of his shirt and pulled him, making him fall down. I snatched the phone from him and looked at the messages.

"Yo Zack, you gotta hear what Evvie is saying about you?" I read the message Max sent aloud andd looked at Max ridiculously.

"Are you here to send him live reports on what happened?" I asked, glaring at him.

"No? Well yeah, kinda. Its fun. I got his embarrassing pictures as well." He winked.

"Ugh. I can't even call him here now." I muttered, frustratedly.

I want to meet him, but I can't see the annoying smirk on his face.

I might break his lips.

"Don't worry. He's already coming." Max said, smirking.

"What? Why?" I asked, my eyes wide.

"Because you got into a fight today. So he's worried." He shrugged, still sitting on the floor.

"And I get into loads of fights. He never got worried before." I rolled my eyes.

"You don't know?" He asked, furrowing his eyebrows.

"What?" I asked, but he continued.

"Correction. He always got worried, overworried, I'd say, if that is even a word. The difference is that he was with us, when we fought in school. Did you notice he was always here, when something happened? Even though you two fought once but he was here." He said.

"Yeah. When Arthur returned." I said, now realizing.

"Well, Grandpa asked him to be there, on every point." He said, while I am taken aback. "He wants a responsible person for you. So he wants Zack to start taking some responsibility and start taking care of you, so he doesn't have to worry about you, when you get married."

"What the duck?" I said, as he nodded.

"But how do you know, you didn't even know about the arrangement?" I said.

"Zack told me." He shrugged. "Now, are you going to let me up or am I still going to sit on the floor, awaiting your punch?" He asked.

That's when I realized. He wasn't sitting on the floor, I was pinning him, my fist raised.

"Yeah. Right." I said, backing away as he got up.

"You know, Grandpa didn't even have to tell him. He already bothered me enough, whenever there was the smallest of a problem." He said.

"But that's not right. I mean, Zack can't always be there, even on the small things. I don't want him to feel too compelled or pressured." I said, genuinely concerned.

"Trust me. He's actually happy to be there for you." Max said, hugging me and kissing my head. "Why else do you think, me and Nathan are okay with it? He's nice and is treating you well."

"And he loves you." Max said, nudging me, while I looked down, my whole face turning red.

"Wow. You're so easy to tease." He laughed, nudging me again.

"Stop it." I grumbled, punching him in the guts. Max just shook his head and picked me up.

"Little baby is blushing? Do you miss your boyfriend?" He said, in a baby voice.

"Ugh. Let me go you b-wordy another b-word." I said, punching him and hiding my head in his shoulder.

"Witchy Custard, you mean?" He laughed when I nodded.

As soon as he stepped down the stairs, the doorbell rang.

"PRINCESS!!" I yelled, jumping down and running to the door.

I felt the house shaking and the floor rumbling, like a group of elephants was stomping towards me.

It took me a moment to realize the elephants were my brothers.

I had already opened the door. Zack was looking at me, expertly ignoring the brothers.

He looked away after a long time of staring, to glance at my brothers and I saw a smirk on his face.

"Hey, baby. You okay? I heard you got into a fight." He said, moving a step forward. He bent down and leaned in to kiss me.

I closed my eyes.

But my lips didn't make contact with anything. His lips, to be specific.

I was pulled back quickly and a smack landed on my head.

I opened my eyes, to see Will pushing Scooby into Zack's face.

"Kiss Scooby instead." Will said, quickly handing him my little puppy, who started licking Zack's face immediately. He ran back to stand with the other brothers.

"Aww... Scooby. You're my baby's baby." Zack said, pouting. "Pass the kisses to her okay?" He said, before hugging Scooby.

"Ewww... Get away from that disgusting furball." Luciano scowled, moving forward and snatching Scooby from him, grabbing Scooby by his neck. "You're making it more disgusting."

"Shut up." I rolled my eyes.

"You shut up." It wasn't Luciano.

"Don't you dare say a word." Elonzo said. "Seriously? Kissing him before your family? You've become shameless." He scolded.

Chill Oldie.

"I didn't." I shrugged.

"But you were about to, if Leo hadn't pulled you back." He glared at me.

"Wow. Leo ruined the moment." I turned back to glare at Leo. He glared back.

Elonzo turned my head back to him.
"If you try to do that again, I will never let you see him again." He narrowed his eyes, while mine widened.

"What? You can't do that." I whined.

"Oh I can't?" He mocked.

"I mean, Yeah you can. But you won't, right?" I asked, looking at him with my puppy eyes.

"Trust me, I will." He said, looking away.

I looked back at the door, to see all of my other brothers, except Nathan, standing with their arms crossed, glaring at Zack.

"Stay away from her." Vince said.

"Your Grandpa won't like it." Zack shrugged.
"Now, if you don't mind, I have to meet my girlfriend properly." He said, putting emphasis on girlfriend.

Guts.

"Actually, we do mind." Ryder said.

"Hey!" I said, going to stand beside Zack. "Don't you dare try to threaten him."

"Get away from him." Emiliano gritted.

I pouted.
"You are so mean. I'll tell Grandpa."

"Why do you have to drag Grandpa in everything?" Dominic said.

"I just drag him when you all team up against me." I said, matter-of-factly. "Now, I'd appreciate it, if you moved back to the living room and leave us alone."

They didn't move.

"Do it for me?" I pouted and looked at them through my puppy dog eyes.

They stood there for a second, before moving back to the living room, shooting death glares at Zack.

"Just because of her." Drake said. "Or else you would've been dead."

I just shook my head and turned to Zack.

"That was fun." He chuckled before his arms wrapped around my waist, picking me up.

"Do you always have to cause trouble, tomboy?" He said, leaning in and kissing me, without letting me answer.

"I missed you." He said, after pulling away.

"I didn't. Who misses garbage?" I smirked.

"I do." He smirked back.

Wait! What? That backfired.

"Ugh." I groaned.

"Yeah. Garbage misses Garbage." I said.

"I expected better from you." He said, rolling his eyes.

"Shut up, Princess." I said. "Now put me down. You stink."

"No. I'm better this way." He said, before kissing me all over my face, making me laugh uncontrollably.

What? It tickles.

"Why are you laughing, Nerdy?" He said, amused.

"It tickles. What else? I can't always laugh looking at your face, you ugly clown." I said.

"That's not a very nice thing to say to your boyfriend and soon-to-be husband, now is it?" He said, as I felt his fingers on my sides, making me laugh again.

I tried wiggling out of his grip, but couldn't. He stopped finally.

"You're gonna die, pighead." I said, giving him a peck. He released his grip and I jumped away from him.

"Your hand?" He asked as I showed him my injured hand.

Its not that bad now. I used to have bruises if I even punched someone once. Now, I punched the life out of that guy and its not broken.

"Axel should make you train more." He muttered. "Why can't you punch without hurting yourself?"

"I don't know. And don't you dare tell Axel. He will kill me by making me work harder. Besides, he's proud of himself, that I'm actually improving and not breaking my hand when the fight is this serious." I rolled my eyes. "That idiot should be proud of me for improving."

Zack just chuckled, then he suddenly remembered.
"So, I'm handsome? You don't get to see my handsome face often, huh?" He said, nudging me.

I scoffed.
"Who said that?" I said, looking away, crossing my arms.

"I don't know. Maybe you?" He said, turning me back towards him.

"I didn't take any names." I smirked. "I was talking about Scooby."

I called scooby as he came running out of the living room.
"Aww... My handsome little baby." I said, while Zack scoffed.

"Wow. Scooby gets more love than me." He grumbled.

Scooby jumped from my arms and on Zack. He started licking his face again.

"Ewww..." I said, taking Scooby away. "Scooby! You don't lick Garbage."

Zack rolled his eyes, before something came to his mind. He smirked as he picked up Scooby and put him down.

"What?" I asked, about to pick Scooby back up.

"This Garbage wants to kiss you." He said, smirking and making kissing noises.

"No." I giggled. He grabbed both of my hands in his one hand and grabbed my jaw in his other.

"Leave me alone, pighead." I said, trying to wiggle out of his grasp.

He just smirked in return.

"DAD!" I yelled looking behind him. He let go of me, immediately.

And I took off to the living room.

No way in hell am I letting him kiss me that easily. I'm going to annoy him.

Hahahahhah.
*evil laughter*

"Tricky little monkey." He gritted, running behind me.

I laughed and ran inside the living room, only to find the brothers all glaring at me.

My eyes landed on the oldies and I ran to sit in between them, making some space, considering they are king kongs.

Zack strode into the living room and the glares shifted from me to him.

"What happened?" Vincenzo asked from beside me.

"Nothing." I answered simply, smirking at Zack who was glaring at me.

He sat down with Max and Nathan, when Kate entered the living room.

"Woah! Am I interrupting a cousin reunion?" She said, almost getting a heart attack on seeing so many Romanos there.

"No." Nathan chuckled.

"Are you okay?" The D-trips said together.

"Yeah." She smiled. Diego got up to hug her.

He said something in her ear, which made her giggle.

My eyes widened. I grinned and looked at Nathan with the 'what the hell is happening?' look. I looked at Max, who was busy glaring at the two, with nothing but anger in his eyes, his jaw and hands clenched.

Oooooo. Tea.

Zack and I exchanged amused glances, while looking at Max now and then.

Diego pulled away and walked towards where he was sitting again.

I saw him trip over Max's foot. Definitely not an accident.

Diego asked Kate to sit with him, which she agreed to. But Max had other plans.

"No. I want to talk to her about something." He said, pulling her to sit between him and Zack.

Kate smiled at him, while Max glared at Diego, putting his arm around her protectively.

And that was an adoring lovestruck smile.

I saw Diego wink at her and exchange knowing glances.

Good job, brother.