"It is now exactly one month until our birthday" Beck grins as he barges into my room and jumps on my bed

"We're gonna be seventeen" I smile at my twin

"And Caleb's gonna be an adult" he laughs

"Now that's a seriously terrifying thought. Your best friend is going to be considered an adult"

"Yeah it is" Beck snorts

I just laugh before rolling over to grab my remote and turn my t.v. on.

"Hey I actually wanted to talk to you" Beck says "and I don't want you to get mad, please don't be mad, cause I love you and you're my favorite sibling and you are really scary when you're mad" he rambles much like I do when I'm nervous. I could feel my own heart speed up, knowing my twin was the source of it.

"Beckett" I state

"Bailey" he imitates me

"Stop rambling and tell me what's up, I can literally feel my heart about to beat out of my chest right now. Why are you so nervous?" I laugh at his obvious nervousness

"Okay Uh-I-I really like Amy" he finally spits out making me laugh

"Yeah I know, what about it?" I ask as his eyes widen

"You know?!" He questions

"Literally every time we're together, you're always watching her with the lovey eyes. You make her laugh, and she makes you happy, I can see it on your face" I smile at my twins suprised face "She really likes you too."

"Really?" He sits up while still looking at me with slightly red tinted cheeks "like she actually does? SHE likes me? How?"

"Without a doubt. And I'm still wondering that myself" I grin

"DUDE she's way out of my league how am I gonna do this?" He sigh before dramatically dropping down to my bed

"Just ask her. I am almost positive she'll say yes" I shrug

He sighs loudly before nodding "Okay, I'll ask her"

"Good cause I'm sick of you two giving eachother the love sick puppy eyes. It's annoying" I smile at him

"Oh shut up I have to deal with you and Dallas being around here, you can deal with Amy and I" he rolls his eyes at me.

"Okay thats fair" I laugh "Wanna watch The Walking dead?

"Yeah what season are you on?" He asks

"I just started season six last night."

"Fuck B, it's only been like a week

"I am a binge master, don't you know this by now?"

"That's fair"

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We stayed in my room for a few hours, eventually all of my brothers joined us. All five of us were just lounging around my room binging Walking Dead until Arrex got a text and had to go.

"Ace you wanna come with? It's just some stuff at the shop they need me to fix" He asks

"Yeah let's go, I still have to finish organizing the computer system" They both started working at our local auto body shop at the start of November, Arrex did more of the mechanic work where Ace helped with a lot of the paperwork.

"Yeah I'm probably gonna leave too, ,Christian and Cody wanna hang out today" Colton adds as he follows the twins out

"I don't wanna get up" I huff "but I have to take a shower cause Dallas is picking me up in like two hours, and if I want my hair to be somewhat dry by then, I have to shower now"

"You're going out with Dallas tonight?" He questions "Where are you guys going?"

"Just to Janie's ice cream. It's more of a study date cause he need help in calculus"

"Hehe dumbass" Beck smirks earning a hard smack from me

"Okay not everyone's a genius and skips a full grade. Besides I remember when I had to help you with geometry cause you weren't doing your homework so your grade tanked" I cross my arms to glare at my twin.

"OOKAY HOLD ON, geometry was and is useless to me, I don't need to write a whole as proof justifying why a triangle is a triangle. A triangle is a triangle because it had three fucking sides and angles." He defends himself "and besides you can't say shit, you suck and writing papers, I still have to proofread all of them"

"YOU KNOW I SUCK AT WORDS" I yell back at him "I am a numbers and data person! Not an English person who enjoys analyzing fuckin poems and old literature!"

"But that's the easy shit" Beck states

"No math is easier"

"Agree to disagree?"

"Yep"

This was a common argument between us. I had always been way better and math and science than I had been social studies or English. Sure I could write a nine page lab report easily but anything to do with literature I was complete ass at. English was never my strong suit.

"Okay well I'm gonna run out to grab food, you want anything?"

"Can you just grab me my usual burger? I'll probably eat it when I get home" I tell him as he stands up

"Okay I'll be back in a little bit." He models before leaving my room. A minute later I hear the front door close and his car pull away.

I begrudgingly climb out of bed and make my way to the bathroom, grabbing a towel in the process. Tiny tries to follow me in the bathroom but I close the door before he could. I start blasting my music before jumping in for a quick shower.

After getting out of the shower, I wrap my hair up in a towel before wrapping the other towel around myself and walk back to my room.

"Hello?" I hear someone call from downstairs

"Hello?" I question back walking to the top of the stairs "oh hey Co" I wave when I see him

"Hey Princess, are the guys here?"

"No, the twins had to go to work and Beck just left for food, he should be back in a few though,"

"Okay, I think I left some of my stuff in the den yesterday, can I go grab it?"

"Yeah go ahead" I smile before walking back to my room

I quickly throw the towel off my head and get dressed in a pair of simple back leggings with my favorite Chicago Cubs sweatshirt.

"Did you find everything?" I yell down to Co before walking into the bathroom

"Almost" he yells back "Have you seen my sweatshirt?"

"Check under the couch" I tell him "I'll be down in a minute just let me finish getting ready"

"Okay" I hear him say before I close the door and resume my music. This was why it took girls forever to get ready, because personally, I spend the whole time singing and dancing. Normally it would take me ten minutes, but with music it takes just about thirty.

My Greatest Showman playlist starts playing, starting with A Million dreams. I just about yell the lyrics as I brush through and dry my unruly blonde hair. By the time my hair was dried, I got through A Million Dreams, Come Alive and the beginning of Rewrite the Stars.

"You think it's easy,

You think I don't want to ruin to you" I sing as loud as possible when the Zendaya part of Rewrite the stars comes on

"But there are mountains,

And there are doors that we can't walk through.

I know you're wondering why,

Because we're able to be just you and me, within these walls

But when we go outside you're gonna wake up and see that it was hopeless after all

No one can rewrite the stars,

How can you say you'll be mine?

Everything keeps us apart

And I'm not the OEM you were meant to find

It's not up to you,

it's not up to me

When everyone tells us what we can be

How can we rewrite the stars?

Say that the world can be ours

Tonight." I smile as I sing the last line before quietly opening the bathroom door. I start walking to my room to grab my socks when I hear Caleb talking to someone.

"Okay and why are you telling me this exactly? Last time I checked we weren't the biggest fans of each other"

"I know but I could really use your help. I originally came here to talk to Beck, but you are the next best thing. You know Belle probably better than anyone. And she's just different. So, can you please help me?" I knew that was Dallas. He's here early.

"Fine, honestly though, I still don't fully understand her. She honestly doesn't really care what you guys do or what you get her. If I know anything about that her, it's that she just liked to be with her people. Sadly you're are one of them, she doesn't need nor want much even though she deserves the world. What were you thinking on doing?"

"Oh thank god. Okay so I was thinking taking her out to a nice restraunt, because I mean she loves food." Dallas starts to say

"Okay right idea. She loves food more than sleep, but don't go to a fancy restraunt. She'll never tell you this but they aren't her favorite places. Definitely choose somewhere less formal, a place that has burgers or chicken wings. They're her favorite. Oh and a place where she doesn't have to get super dressy. she just hates wearing dresses" Caleb tells him making me grin. He was right, I'd never actually tell Dallas that I kind of hated fancy restraunt. I was a messy person and I had to be allowed to be messy. When I'm around Dallas I always feel like I have to be on my best behavior, I can't really let loose, no matter how long we date.

"Okay, I was going to get her flowers, and-"

"If you're getting her flowers, get her daisies. They're the only flowers she likes. Don't get her roses. Again it's another thing she'll never say to your face, she hates roses and thinks they're cheesy." Another thing he was right about, only lied about the real reason I hated roses. Though they were cheesy, they were also my mom's favorite.

I used to love roses because of that exact reason but when she left, I began to hate everything that reminded me of her. The only time I like roses is when they are combined with daisies. It seems stupid to most people, but when they are paired with daisies they no longer seems like my moms thing, they are my own. I don't know if Caleb remembered that though.

"Well she only likes them when they're mix-actually, no just don't get her roses" He starts to say before cutting himself off

"Okay and last thing, what do I get her? I know she loves baseball, but she refuses to tell me what team. I also know shes a musical freak, and she loves basically any kind under the sun."

"She's a self proclaimed musical whore. She loves musical, and I mean every possible one. We still have yet to find one she doesn't like, well besides godspell. She also, like you said, loves music. She listens to all music and will scream the lyrics to her favorite songs at any time of the day. Hence what you heard when you walked in" I hear Caleb laugh lightly. I remember on my fifteenth birthday, his sixteenth, he slept over and I woke both him and Beck up at midnight by screaming they lyrics to love story by Taylor Swift. Neither of them were very pleased.

"And the baseball thing, sadly she's a cubs fan." He adds, the hard tone once again evident in his voice.

"Chicago? Really?" Dallas questions

"Oh yeah." Caleb grumbles "She's also a bears fan too"

"What?"

"Yeah I've been trying to convert her for years. According to her theres no place better than Wrigley." Well yeah cause there isn't I thought to myself. I will forever and always be a cubs fan. "She was so excited when she got into the Chicago program because she could finally see a live game at Wrigley Field"

"That's insane, there are so many better teams" Dallas scoffs

"Not to her, she's somehow stuck by the Cubs since she knew what baseball was." Caleb states finally. "If I'm being honest I think at first she just became a fan out of spite for me, but I think they started to actually grow on her and now they are her favorite fuckin team"

"But seriously, she loves just small little things, she's not materialistic at all." Caleb tells him. "Maybe a performance of one of her favorite musicals. Grease, Chicago, Little shop of horrors, footloose, and The Addams Family are all some of her favorites. She would love it, and you'd definitely make her smile."

"Anything to do with music really she'd love. She fucking loves rock, like AC/DC she absolutely loves, Alice Cooper , Metallica, Halestorm, She's also a freak about Theory of a Deadman. Then theres classic rock so a lot of Queen, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Beatles, Journey, And Van Halen. Never play STYX she has this weird irrational hatred for STYX. She's a huge country fan too. Luke Bryan, Chase Rice, Florida Georgia Line, Luke combs, Sam Hunt, Kenny Chesney, Dan and Shay, she loves all of them. Then definitely 90's to early 2000's pop like old Taylor Swift, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, old Miley and all that. Her and Em even have their throwback playlist. Try to find maybe a local concert somewhere around here. She'd love that too"

"How the hell do you know all of this? She just seems happy with everything." Dallas asks him

I smile at this. I didn't really want much, as long as I was with my people, I was happy. We could do whatever and I didn't really care. I didn't really like to be difficult and upset people so I usually just go with whatever.

"Its taken years." Caleb pauses "Spending almost all day everyday with a person, you'll learn a lot about them. She just has small little quirks that are easy to miss. She doesn't want to upset people, so she just goes with the flow even if it's not really her thing. If you really want to make her smile, just be there, with her. Her people are her world and she'd do anything for them. She would do anything for me and vice versa." Caleb states simply. I never realized he payed attention that much, no one has ever done that. Not even Em knows about the flowers. He knows my favorite flowers, my favorite musicians, the specific way I have to eat my oreos, my favoitre coffee and just about everything else about me. For some reason I couldn't help the smile that grew on my face.

"Belle's my best friend, I love her, I always have no matter how much we hated eachother. Since her music is still playing and she can't hear me, I can say this without getting yelled at. You hurt her, in any way, and I will literally kill you in the most gresusome way possible before any of her brothers can even reach you. understood?" Caleb states, all sense of warmth lost from his voice at it is replaced by a hard harsh tone. my gear swells at the notion. Though usually I'd be mad at him for threatening my boyfriend, I weirdly felt butterflies in my stomach. I never felt that especially when it came to Kazer.

"Yes" Dallas says seriously "I know you don't like me, but I seriously care for her. I wouldn't do anything to hurt her"

"Just make sure you keep her happy," Caleb tells him. I take this as my chance to turn my music off and make my way downstairs to see them.

"Hey Dallas" I smile as I give him a quick kiss on the cheek

"Hey, are you ready to go?" he grins

"Yeah, I just gotta grab my bag, meet you in the car?" I ask with a smile

"Okay" He grins planting a kiss on my cheek before walking out to the car.

I turn and face Caleb with a wide smile

"Why are you smiling all weird?" His hard scowl still present on his face, though it softens at my smile

I just stand on my tippy toes to wrap my arms around his neck pulling him in for a hug. He responds, wrapping his arms around my waist, pulling me in closer And holding me just a little tighter. I loved his hugs, I always have.

"Whats this for?" He questions, his voice weirdly dull as he rests his head against mine.

"Thank you. I've been sitting at the top of the stairs for the passed ten minutes" I grin, resting my head against his chest

"You heard all of that" he sighs "Please don't thank me"

He was acting weird. He was usually happy and warm but now he was just being plain cold. He was going back to the asshole I used to hate.

"Why didn't you tell him about the mixed daisies and roses?" I am almost positive he knew

"What do you mean?" he asks

"I know you know Kazer"

"Fine" he huffs "That is one tell that I'm not willing to give away. It took me years to learn that, I don't even think your brothers know that. I'm not just gonna give away all of my secrets"

"Eh fair" I shrug

An awkward silence washed over us. Something that's never really happened before. Even when I first got back, we just started right back up from where we left off. This was just weird.

"Well- Uh, just thank you" I shrug

"Don't thank me" he shrugs "I just pay attention"

"Exactly" I offer a small smile before walking out to Dallas's car.