'You've worn me out.' She says to me, whilst placing her head on my chest.

'Not my fault you're such a little vixen.' I reply.

'Me?' She gasps. 'I can't keep up with you.' I chuckle at her response.

We lay there in a comfortable silence, her tracing the tattoo on my chest. After a beat she breaks the silence.

'I know I said I didn't hear anything the other day but I did.' I don't say anything, leaving her to carry on. 'It sounded heavy. Is every okay?'

'It will be once Angel stops fucking around.' She looks up at me in shock. 'Not in that way.' She exhales, leaning her head back down on my chest. 'I don't know how to help him or how he's going to be when I move for College. I probably going to have to take him with me.'

'You need to live your life for you Kree.' She resumes tracing my tattoo with her fingers.

'I know.' I huff, running my fingers through my hair. 'But he's my little brother. I can't just abandon him.'

'You won't.' She says confidently. 'You've just got to let him make his own mistakes, so he can learn from them.'

'I guess so.' I say.

'I know so.' She places a light kiss on my chest. 'Don't worry, you'll get through this. The both of you just need to figure something out together.' She looks up at me. I kiss her head and she snuggles even closer to me.

'I was wondering... who's X?' She asks.

I sigh before replying. 'Babe... I just don't-' I lift her away from me, swinging my legs over the bed, running my fingers through my hair. 'I don't want to talk about him.'

'Why?' I look over my shoulder and see she's wrapped the comforter around her body. 'You can tell me anything, I won't say-'

'Sage! Just leave it alone!' She turns her head in a different direction, clearly angry at me snapping at her. I close my eyes slowly at seeing her upset.

She makes a move to get out of bed and slips on her dress. 'Where are you going?' I look up and exhale.

'Well clearly you're in a mood and want to be alone so I'm going to leave you too it.' She hastily picks up her underwear and shoves them in her bag.

'Babe...' I start but she cuts me off.

'Don't talk to me like that.' She snaps.

'I'm sorry.' I stand up. She runs her eyes down me before carrying on her outburst.

'You know, you can be a real ass sometimes.' She retorts.

'I know.' I take a step towards her.

'I'm not gonna let you treat me this way.' She crosses her arms

'I know.'

She momentarily flickers down at me before carrying on. 'I don't like the way you keep things from me.'

'I know.' I keep stalking towards her until her back is pushed against the door.

'You should put some clothes on.' She exhales.

'Why?' I place both my hands beside her head.

'Because I-I can't have a-a' *sigh* 'serious conversation with you when you're-' The kiss I place under her ear breaks her off.

'When I'm what?' I encourage her.

'When you're pressed against me naked.' Her eyelashes flutter.

'What else?' I whisper against her ear.

'What?' She barely whispers, lacing her fingers through my hair. I rest my forehead on hers and the eye contact we make is so intense, she glances away.

'What else don't you like about me?' I move my lips back to kiss under her ear, then trail kisses down to her neck, eventually sucking on it.

'I-I don't like it when...' She moans when a suck on another spot on her neck.

'Enough talking.' I lift her up and walk us back to the bed, pushing into her as I throw her down on the bed.

***

An incessant buzzing wakes me out of my sleep. I grab my phone but then realise it's not coming from mine. Throwing my phone back on the side table, I try and go back to sleep until the buzzing starts up again.

'Baby..' I draw out.

'Hmmm?' She turns in my hold.

'Your phone.' I grunt out, placing my head in her neck.

Groaning, she reaches out for her phone and stops the buzzing.

'Ughh.' She groans.

'What is it?' I kiss her neck.

'It's my mom. I didn't necessarily tell her I was staying here. She's not mad but she did say if I don't want my dad to find out, then I need to be home in twenty minutes.'

'Hmmm...' I place my hand on her boob, pinching her nipple.

'Kree....' She weakly protests.

'What? You said we have twenty minutes.' I start to move my hand slowly down her body and reach her core.

Rubbing her slowly, she whimpers at my touch. 'Hmm, right there Kree.' She grips back onto my leg to balance her.

'Are you there?' I ask and she she nods. 'Not yet.' I breathe in her ear. She protests against my hand, pleading with me to let her release.

'Let go.' I finally stop toying with her and she gasps, trying to move away from me but leaning back at the same time. Her chest rises up and down and she squeezes her eyes shut.

She lifts one hand up to rest on my face. 'Fuck, I love...' What? 'Your eyes.' She blurts out. Well that was random.

Sensing the shift in atmosphere, I lighten the mood. 'My eyes uh?'

'Yeah, your sectoral heterochromia eyes are so intense. And your hands...' She turns around the climbs on me, biting her lip. 'They turn me on.'

'I bet they do.' I whisper lowly, looking into her eyes. We stare at each other before she moves her lips down to mine. Her lips are so soft and inviting, they feel like home.

Before I know it, she jumps up and puts her underwear on. 'Sage...' I say sternly.

'What? Twenty minutes are up.' She smirks mischievously, pulling her dress up. I feign getting out of bed and she shrieks. 'Nooooo! Got to go. Bye!' She runs out my room, making me chuckle. Seconds later I hear the front door slam and I flop down on my bed, going back to sleep with a smile on my face.

***

Kree has made me so late with his magical fingers. I was suppose to be back ages ago. Running across the lawn, I feel a breeze gushing below me and I have to hold my dress down to stop it from blowing up, as in my haste to leave, I didn't put my underwear back on. My mom is probably still in bed so if I just make it in and into my room before she leaves hers, I can feign being her for a while. Closing the door slowly, I go to sneak up the stairs when a voice startles me.

'I was expecting you back twenty minutes ago.' My mom says from the kitchen.

I change direction and head to the kitchen, hoping she doesn't comment on my attire. 'Hey mom.' I smile.

'Hey honey. Nice outfit.' She jokes.

'Yeah, I meant to call you to say I would be staying at Theia's but we lost track of time-' I start but she cuts me off.

'Yeah, yeah. Save it. I know where you've been. Sage, I have no problem with Kree, he seems like a nice guy. But when you're staying out and not calling or texting me to say where you are, I have to wonder whether he is a good influence on you.' She says.

'He's not making me doing anything I don't want to do.' I frown.

'Maybe not, but he's changing you and that's the problem. You never would have done any of this or worse, try to lie to me about where you have been.' She says sternly. 'You're lucky I saw you going into his house last night, otherwise I would have told your dad you were missing and you know what he's like when it comes to you girls.'

My dad is somewhat overprotective. 'Are you going to tell him?'

'I don't want to, but unlike you, your dad and I don't keep secrets from each other.' I put my head down at her response. She lied in her text to me, she said she wasn't going to tell him.

I know she's right but my heart just can't fathom it when she's saying Kree is not a good influence for me.

I don't want to argue with her so I just calmly say, 'I respect what you're saying mom. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.' She nods at my apology. 'I'm gonna go and have a shower now.' I turn and walk to my room, flopping on my bed.

My door bursts open. 'ARGHHH, MY EYES!! THEY'RE BLINDING!!!' I turn my head towards her, completely confused. 'WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR?!!' Shay shouts.

'Could you be any louder?' I whisper, getting up and pulling her in my room, shouting the door.

'Eww don't touch me with your underwear-less body.' I roll my eyes at her dramatics and grab my dressing gown, covering my "underwear-less" body.

'Consider it payback for when I walked in on you and Luna.' I shudder thinking about it. 'What do you want?' She goes quiet at the mention of Luna. 'Shay?'

'We've broken up.' She says lowly, sitting down on my bed.

'What, really?' She nods. 'Why?' I sit next to her.

'She's changed. I don't know what's going on with her, but she's just been acting different.' Shay shrugs.

'You know, you're both young. Use have got plenty of time to figure everything out.' I say to her, putting my arm around her shoulder.

'Thanks sis. You're alright sometimes.' She sniffles.

'Only sometimes?' I muse.

'Meh.' We both chuckle.

'SAGE!' I hear mom shout from downstairs.

'Oh I came in here to talk to you about what happened earlier with mom.' Shay looks up at me.

'Let's deal with one crisis at a time. Wish me luck.' I get up and head downstairs.

When I get to the living room, my mom and dad are sat there looking all serious. I take a seat across from them

'Look Sage!' My dad starts. 'We've never really been the type of parents that will ban you girls from doing things. We like to believe that we've raised responsible young women because the majority of the time, you make good decisions. But lately, we're concerned that you're spending too much time with this boy-'

'Kree.' I mumble.

My dad gives me a look and I shut up. 'As I was saying, maybe it would be wise to spend some more time with us and your friends this summer, instead of being all holed up in that house with him.'

'But dad, we do do things. He took me on a date last night. That's why I lost track of time. He doesn't just keep me all locked up in his lair.' Although, if he wanted too, I'm game... 'Okay, I get where you're coming from. I will take everything use have said onboard.' I stand up and walk towards the living room door.Turning back I rush out, 'And thanks for letting me have my party,' before running up the stairs.

'We didn't say... oh never mind.' I hear my dad call out.

***

'PARTY BITCHES!' Kerrys screams, walking into my kitchen holding two bottles of Havana rum. 'I stole this from mi Madre's drinking cabinet.'

'Oooo. Add that to the punch. It needs a little kick.' I say.

'I'm surprised your parents are letting you have this party after your little "indiscretion".' She says.

'I didn't really leave them with much choice. I sort of just ran out after I'd said it.' I respond to her. 'Where's Kayla?' I ask, noticing she's on her own.

'She's on a date.' Kerrys replies

'WHAT?!' Kayla never dates. 'Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't she tell me? Why are you being so cavalier about it?' I ramble out all these questions

'Well she hasn't actually told me she's on a date. I just know.' Kerrys replies.

'What do you mean?' I ask, confused.

'Twintuition.' Kerrys shrugs.

'Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well is she enjoying the date?' I ask.

'Sage, it doesn't work like that.' She chuckles. 'But yeah she is.' She giggles out. 'She's enjoying it very much.' She winks.

'Wow, go Kay! It's about time she starts dating. Maybe she'll find something serious.' I'm happy for her. I can't wait to hear all about it.

'Where's Theia?' Kerrys asks.

'Snacks!' I reply and Kerrys nods.

***

Getting ready with Kerrys, we called Shay into my room to cheer her up and get ready with us.

'Aww, it's so sad about you and Luna breaking up. I thought use were endgame.' Kerrys pouts.

'It's fine. We'll get back together.' She shrugs.

'Is she coming tonight?' Kerrys asks her.

'I didn't invite her. We don't need any dramas tonight.'

'Hmm.' Kerrys nods and turns to me. 'What about Kree and... Angel?' She whispers the last bit out.

'Kree said he'd stop by later and Angel...I didn't invite him,' I reply.

'So he could come?' She asks.

'He wouldn't. He knows how I feel about him.' I answer. That seems to calm her nerves.

'Okay. Enough dreary talk, let's get ready.' She says. 'And whilst we're doing that, let's take some shots.'

'Isn't that the rum you put in the punch?' Shay asks.

'Yeah. I left half a bottle so we could get white girl wasted.' She shrieks.

Downing the shot, it burns the back of my throat. 'God! How do you guys drink this? It tastes like acid.' Shay wretches out.

'It's that Havana good stuff. 'Kerrys winks. 'VAMOS BITCHES!!'

***

'I'm already a lil' buzzed.' Shay says as we make our way downstairs. The music is blasting so I'm expecting a huge crowd downstairs. However, when I get downstairs, I look around and nobody's here.

'Did you put the right time in the text you sent out?' I ask Kerrys.

'What do you mean that I sent out? I thought you were in charge of that? It's your party.' Kerrys returns to me.

'Wait, so nobody is coming?' I ask.

'Sssh, do you hear that?' Shay says.

'Yes Shay. I hear that, it's the DJ. But where are the people?' I huff.

All of a sudden, the door bursts open and Theia walks in with a bag of snacks and a trail of people behind her. 'These guys all got lost, so I showed them the way.'

'Theia, you look hot as fuck.' Kerrys squeaks.

'How are you carrying all those bags in that outfit and your heels?' I ask her.

'Theia's used to multitasking.' Kerrys winks, making us laugh.

'Some of these people coming in... I've never seen them before.' I say as many more people filter in. 'Do you know them?'

'No.' Theia puts her bag down and pulls out a box of donuts. 'The rest is for everyone else to share.' She says, walking out of the kitchen.

'How very nice of you to think of us all.' I say, taking the snacks out and putting them in their bowls.

'You're welcome.' I turn and see that Kayla has responded to me.

'Not you. I was talking to Theia, who seems to have disappeared, leaving me to set everything out. As always.' I shake my head. 'You look good girl!' I say, looking at her.

'Thanks-'

'I have a bone to pick with you!!! How can you go on a date and not tell me?' I point at her.

'Um, well, err...' She coughs. 'Oh, is that the time?' She walks straight out, leaving me stood there speechless. I will get answers out of her one way or another.

The party has been going on for a while now and Kree hasn't turned up yet. Just as I'm thinking of going to his house my phone buzzes.

I'm on my way, don't worry

How did you know I was worried?

Because I know you

He really does. Better than I think.

***

'Alright A, I'm leaving.' I say, looking in the mirror. I pick up my keys and turn to him when I hear him coming down the stairs. 'I'll probably just stay at Sage's, so don't wait up.' I move to the door when he stops me.

'Can we talk?' He asks.

'Now?' This isn't a good time. Angel moves to sit on the couch and puts his head in his hands. This does not look good. 'Okay.' I put my keys down on the table. 'Talk to me.'

He waits before responding. 'I didn't expect this to happen, it just got out of hand. I don't know what to do.' He starts tapping the temple with his finger.

'About what?' I ask.

'He said everything would be okay.' He keeps muttering

'Who did?' I ask again.

'But IT'S NOT!' He shouts out

'Angel-'

'It's out of control.' He sobs.

'ANGEL!!' I shout. 'What the fuck are you talking about? What have you done?'

'I didn't mean to.' He shakes his head. 'I didn't, I didn't...'