We had been playing princes and princesses for about half an hour and as much as I loved the girls, there's only so many times Toby and Em can escape from me and attend balls.

"Okay so now Emmy, Aiden puts a curse on you and you will be asleep until your prince kisses you," Mia explains to Em as she pats the couch.

Wait, what the fuck?

Em and Toby have to kiss now? Nah man, Toby wouldn't do that to me.

I watch as Em and Toby exchange panicked looks.

"Come on Emmy, lie down," Ella says, pulling Em by her arm to the couch.

After another moment of Toby and Em looking at each other, Em allows Ella to pull her to the couch, noticeably looking very panicked.

Toby looks at me, the same panic in his eyes.

I shake my head, telling him silently not to do anything. Luckily Em had her back turned on us and couldn't see anything.

"Why don't we watch the movie now?" Toby suggests.

"I think that is a good idea, I'm sick of being the bad man," I reply in a tone that hopefully sounds like I'm joking.

Toby nods at me, silently reassuring me that I gave nothing away.

"After this one Don," Mia replies impatiently.

"Yeah, this is the most important one," Ella agrees.

Fuck.

"I want a go at being the bad man, can we switch Aiden?" Toby tries again, loud enough for the girls to hear.

I shake my head vigorously, he's making it so fucking obvious.

"No Toby, you can be the bad man next time but you have to be the prince now." Mia reminds.

Are you fucking kidding me?!

Toby shrugs at me in the same panicked look that Em showed prior.

It gave me some comfort knowing that neither one of them wanted to kiss the other, but I was still not okay with my best friend kissing the girl I'm majorly crushing on.

"Toby, hurry up!!" Mia whines from where Em is lying on the couch.

After one last panicked look from Toby and one last glare from me, Toby shrugs helplessly and walks over to Em.

No way, he won't do it.

Toby slowly begins to lean down towards Em and an extreme jealously surges through me.

Was he actually about to kiss her.

Fuck this.

They want to kiss? Fine. But there was no way I'm going to watch.

I roll my eyes and begin walking towards my room.

"Don, where are you going?" Mia asks innocently. I ignore her, closing my door roughly and sitting on the end my bed with my hand in my face.

I hate how I feel, it's like everything is heightened when it comes to her. For fucks sake, I couldn't even watch my best friend and her even when I knew very well that neither of them felt that way about each other. Now she probably fucking knows I'm crushing on her because of my jealousy.

Why are girls so hard? Actually, why is she so hard?! I've spent years playing girls, it was like second nature to me but as soon as it comes to her I suddenly have no idea? That doesn't even make fucking sense.

My door opens and I instantly know it's Toby, I think he was the only person in the world that has never heard of knocking.

"Dude, that was painful to watch," Toby smirks, referring to my jealous outburst.

"Did you kiss her?" I ask, getting straight to the point as he comes to sit beside me.

"Nah, you stormed off at the perfect moment, everyone was so surprised that the game ended. I don't know what the fuck I would have done if you didn't storm away." Toby replies chuckling.

"I'm too fucking obvious, she has to know now," I reply, rolling my eyes at myself.

"Nah, she actually has no idea. Her eyes were closed so all she knows is that you walked away. I told her your mom texted you and you had to call her." Toby replies.

Thank fuck.

"Thanks man, I owe you." I reply gratefully, thank fuck my secret wasn't blown.

"You should tell her though, I don't know why you haven't," Toby sighs.

"Nah, I'll get over it soon anyways," I reply, not even convincing myself.

"Seriously Aiden, I've known you forever. Just be honest, why won't you really tell her?" Toby asks.

I sigh, "Dude, I fuck girls. The only girl I've even felt remotely the same way for was Katherine and we know how that turned out. With Em, it's just different. If I tell her, I give her the power to not only hurt me, but also to lose the friendship we have. I don't know, if she doesn't feel the same I know it'll hurt even more than it did with Kat, and our friendship surprisingly means a lot to me." I reply, surprising myself with my response. I didn't even know I really felt like that.

"I get it dude, and I'll keep it a secret as long as you want but you gotta come clean, if not to her then at least to Carter and Blake." Toby replies.

I sigh, "yeah I know, and I will."

Toby nods before he stands up and starts walking downstairs, gesturing for me to follow.

I was glad Toby didn't push anymore, he knew that it must have been hard for me to admit that to him. It was something I always respected about Toby, he may have been a bit of a jokester, but he always knew when to stop, whatever the situation.

I walk downstairs and see Em playing dolls with the twins. I had to admit, the fact she loved my sisters and they loved her made her even hotter. They had never really got to that point with Katherine, they always seemed scared of her so it was nice to see them warm up so much to the girl I was crushing on.

"Everything okay with your mom?" Em smiles from the floor.

"Yeah, she just told me to order pizza for dinner," I smile in reply, my heart warming just a tad at her smile.

She nods, "let's watch the princes movie?!"

"Yes please Emmy!!" Ella shrieks, Mia just squeals excitedly.

I see Em laugh and walk over to the bookshelf where she had left the disk.

"I'm ordering pizza," Toby grins, walking to the kitchen.

"Should we wait for the pizza to watch the movie?" Em asks me. I look at the twins and see them pout.

"Nah, they'll get impatient. I'll put it on," I smirk.

"Wow Aiden, you seem very keen to watch the Disney princess movie, something you wanna tell me?" Em smirks.

I love her confidence, it just makes her impossibly hotter. The fact that I know she's not that confident to other guys she doesn't know just makes it even better!!

I walk over to her smirking to whisper in her ear so the twins don't hear; "there's a lot I wanna tell you, but it only makes sense if we're naked."

I step away to put the disk in the player and smirk as I watch her face turn redder than the chicks hair on the disk.

Toby walks back happily, "pizza will be here in like 20 - 25."

I nod as Toby goes to sit on the couch. Mia and Ella follow leaving the love seat for Em and I. How fucking predictable.

I go to sit as well but notice Em looking like she has something to say.

"You okay Collins?" I ask.

"Um yeah, um. Aiden, it's really cold in here and I was wondering if I could, well you know. Borrow a sweatshirt or something?" Em asks, once again blushing. Toby and I were both wearing sweatshirts and I wondered how I didn't notice she was cold earlier. The wet hair wouldn't have helped either.

I smirk, "so she's the damsel in distress again."

"And I'm sure you'll step up, just like you did with Norman." Em smirks back.

"Norman?" Toby asks curiously. Em's smirk just broadens and I know exactly what she's about to do.

"Fine," I smirk, pulling her up to my room to give her a sweatshirt before she could tell Toby about Norman. Toby and I were best friends but he didn't know about my fear of spiders, and I wanted to keep it that way before Toby played jokes on me for the rest of my life.

Em grins in triumph as she follows me to my room.

"That was mean Collins," I smirk.

"Mean but fair," she winks as she falls onto my bed and waits for me to get a sweatshirt to give her.

Did she just get hotter?

Nah that's impossible.

I grab out the first sweatshirt in my drawer and throw it at her, it falls on her face and I chuckle as she glares at me jokingly. The sweatshirt was just a plain black one with a hood, I had to admit it was one of my favorites.

She stands up and puts the sweatshirt on over her white shirt and it drowns her. If it wasn't one of my favorites before, it definitely is now.

I had heard guys say that their girl wearing their clothes was one of the hottest things in the world, but I never understood what they meant until now. There was just something about her wearing my clothes that just got to me. Maybe it was the fact that in a way, it sort of put my claim on her but I loved it. I would happily give her all my clothes if it meant she would wear them, maybe it'd finally make all the guys stop ogling her wherever she went.

"Don't laugh at me!!" Em demands, referring to my clothes being way too big for her, the sweatshirt fell to about mid-thigh, and her arms weren't even close to being long enough for the sleeves.

"You look hot with my clothes on Collins," I begin smirking, loving when she blushes, "But I bet you'd look hotter with no clothes on," I wink, finishing my statement.

The blush just deepens but she rolls her eyes at me laughing and walks back downstairs.

***

We were about 20 minutes into the movie and Toby was already obsessed. It seemed like he was enjoying it as much as the twins. Although I would never admit it to anyone, it was actually a pretty good movie.

The doorbell sounds, I assume its the pizza so I stand up to get it. Toby and the twins all stay engrossed in the movie but Em stands up with me to answer the door.

"Aiden let me pay this time, you paid that time at my house," Em demands as we walk to the door.

"It's my house Collins and my family and best friend, I'm paying," I roll my eyes as I open the door. I see Em go to reply, presumably to argue but stop talking when she sees the delivery guy. It was the same guy that hit on her that time and I subconsciously roll my eyes. Great now I have to witness another guy ogle over my girl.

I quickly remember that this guy thinks that I'm her boyfriend and my confidence is once again found. I throw my arm over her shoulders and pull her closer to me to add to the illusion and pizza guy notices.

"Oh h-hi, you're that couple from next door," he stutters, looking at Em with wide eyes once again.

"Yep, you're that guy that hit on my girlfriend." I shoot back before Em gets the chance to say anything.

"Um, yo-your pizza," the guy stutters once again, blushing crimson and handing me the box. I see that Em feels bad for the guy so I quickly pay him before she has the chance to tell him we're not actually together.

Em waves as the guy leaves, smiling awkwardly and he blushes, looking like he's about to say something. I glare at him without Em noticing and he gets the message before he quickly walks back to his car. Being intimidating had its perks, I just wish every guy was as easily scared as the pizza guy.

"Aiden, the poor guy." Em scolds as we walk inside. I smirk at her and she rolls her eyes laughing, she knew that I enjoyed how intimidated that guy was.

Em grabs plates from the cupboard and we walk back to the living room where Toby and the girls were embarrassingly engrossed in the movie. Em laughs and the sound is like music to my ears. She was turning me into a fucking pussy, but for some reason, I was still hooked.

After we finish the pizza, the movie still had just over 20 minutes to go and both the twins and Toby were just as engrossed. Even I had developed a liking for the children's movie, although I would deny ever having admitted it. I was so engrossed in the movie that I didn't notice Em begin to fall asleep. Her head lightly touches my shoulder bringing me back from my trance.

She was so fucking adorable. Her hair was fanned out behind her and her lips were slightly parted. I was glad that Toby was so engrossed in the movie because that meant that he didn't notice me staring pathetically at the girl I liked as she slept peacefully on my shoulder.

The movie becomes background noise as I see her hair tickle her face. She stirs in her sleep, obviously bothered by the hair tickling her face before she gets comfortable again cuddling further into me. She really was the most beautiful girl I had ever laid my eyes on.

Her arm subconsciously wraps around my stomach and my heart pounds. I feel eyes on me and look up to see Toby smirking at me while the twins continue watching the movie that was almost over by now.

"What?!" I mouth so the twins don't hear me and I don't wake up the sleeping girl.

Toby continues smirking but looks away, I was glad he didn't push it.

The movie ends and I see the twins pout. It was only like 9:00 but I knew that they were due for bed.

"Donnn, I want more," Mia whines.

"Shhh," I begin, trying to stop her from waking Em, Toby notices this and his smirk just widens. Mia pouts.

"Come on, bedtime," I say quietly. Mia nods and stands up, I go to follow but realize there is a sleeping girl on my chest.

"Toby, help me." I say, gesturing to Em.

"Just wake her," Toby smirks mockingly. I give him a look and he just winks childishly before standing up to help me move Em.

Toby grabs a pillow from the couch where the twins were sitting and helps me maneuver her so she's lying properly on the love seat.

I quickly put the girls to sleep and walk back downstairs where Toby is scrolling on his phone. He looks up when he sees me, "dude you're so fucking whipped."

I roll my eyes at him but stay silent as I sit on the one-seater across from Toby, "I don't know what to fucking do."

"Ask her out. What's the worst that can happen?" Toby asks.

"She says no? I ruin our friendship, I lose her forever," I roll my eyes, making sure I don't wake her up.

Toby stays silent for a while, he looks like he's deep in thought, "you really like her, don't you?"

I groan into my hand, muffling the noise.

"Honestly man, I think she's the best thing to ever happen you. You know I never liked Katherine after she left. Em is different, she's so beautiful and has such a good heart, she brings out a different side to you and I think you bring out a different side to her as well." Toby explains.

I chuckle, "anyone would think it was you crushing on her," I reply, only half joking.

Toby grins, "she's not my type, and not only because my best mate is in love with her."

I freeze. In love? No way.

I look at Toby in shock, I admit that I was crushing on her, majorly, but in love?

"Look man, I get that you're not ready to admit it to yourself, you probably don't even know that you're in love with her, especially not after Katherine and I'm not going to ever bring it up again before you, but I can see that you are." Toby replies.

I don't say anything, Toby thinks I'm in love with her?

"Anyway, I'm going home. I'll probably see you tomorrow. " Toby grins, his carefree side returned.

"Wait, can you follow me upstairs and open the door to my room so I can carry her up?" I ask without thinking. Toby gives me a look but doesn't say anything and instead just nods.

I walk over to the couch and slide my arms under her knees and on her back gently, being extra careful not to wake her. She stirs slightly as I lift her, but doesn't wake and just curls further into my chest. My heart pounds erratically and I find myself hoping that the sound of my heart beating doesn't wake her up.

Toby is ahead of me and opens my bedroom door before moving the covers and the top pillow so I can put her on the bed. He places her phone on my bedside table and watches me put her down. As soon as her body hits the mattress she curls up in my bed and I realize that this would be the first-ever time she had slept in my bed, we had always slept in hers.

As soon as Toby leaves I lie beside Em in my boxers. Was I really in love with this girl? I knew that I definitely wasn't far off it, but actually being in love with her was something entirely different. What do I do? How would I act? Is there any hope at all that she would ever feel the same way? I knew it was unlikely, she was so much better than me and I was uncomfortably aware that she was way too good for me.

I feel movement beside me, breaking me out of my thoughts. She rolls over, still sound asleep so her head is placed on my bare chest. My heart pounds even quicker as she moves so her arm wraps around my waist. My arm subconsciously moves so it was around her waist, it feels right with the position we were in.

It almost felt like our bodies were melded together and it just felt right. I never thought that it was possible for 2 bodies to meld together in a way that wasn't sexual but my expectations seemed completely wrong now, especially when the position we were in now, was the same as the one I woke up in the next morning.