"Hey Princess, can you help me with something in the library?" Co asks as we all leave for lunch, we'd been able to refrain from anyone else finding out. Colton still sent us knowing looks whenever we were together and he'd even throw out little comments that went over everyone else's heads besides mine. Typical annoying ass little brother.

"Yeah sure" I nod, keeping my composure

"What are you doing in the library" Jordan snorts, sending a knowing look my way

"Hunnybun decided to single me out for this extra credit assignment so I gotta go grab some books for reference" he lies easily, using our Ap lit teacher as an excuse. We all called him Hunnybun even though his actual last name is Hunnesen.

"Oh okay" Beck shrugs,

"We'll see you guys later" Ace says bidding us goodbye as we all split ways

"Do you really have an extra credit assignment?" I laugh as we walk to the library. The halls were empty on this side of the school, he saw it as an opportunity to intertwine our hands

"Yeah, I finished it last night" he smirks "The library's empty this period though"

"Bitch we are in school" I smack his chest as I roll my eyes with a small grin

"And?" He shrugs

"You've done-" I realize I already know the answer to the question I was asking as I look at his obviously guilty face "Oh my god! Co!"

"What?" He laughs "Only like two times"

"Really?"

"Yes," he states and I raise my brow knowing that's a lie "Fine, plus like three more times"

"You're horrible" I laugh at him "And we should be going to anatomy"

"Yes we should" He grins, wrapping his arms around my waist.

"I'm serious Co!"

"I'm sure you are" He nods, not moving

"Co" I grin

"Belle"

"Let's go" I laugh again. He really knows how to fuckin test me.

"Okay" he grins as he kisses me, I instantly melt into him, still having the same reaction as when we first kiss.

"Co we really should go" I say breaking the kiss to look up at him. His hands were currently on my ass as he leaned his head against the wall behind him.

"Dude I'm serious" I laugh, he was such a guy sometimes.

"But-" he stops talking for a second

"I like you and all but I also really like my grades right now and being first in our class" I laugh "besides-"

"No shh" he says, looking up from me around the bookcases "Go hide at the end of the row, Arrex and Beck are here" he says quickly and I do just as told

How the hell did he hear them?

"Hey Co" Beck says casually "Where's Belle?"

"She had to go pee" I peak around the corner to see Co shrug innocently. His hair was still messy, I hope neither of my brothers noticed

"Ah okay. So we had a question that Jordan didn't help with at all" Arrex comments

"Okay what's up?"

"We think Belles been talking to some new guy" Beck states

I watch as Caleb shifts his weight onto his other foot as he stares at my brothers

"Why do to say that?" He clears his throat "and why're you asking me?"

"We're not blind Co" Arrex laughs and I almost snort. Oh how little they knew. "We know you two hang out, regardless of how you two fight we know you guys are really close. She'll talk to you more than she will us, so has she said anything to you about it?" Arrex questions

"No, I'm sorry, she hasn't said anything to me. I'll talk to her though, try to get at least something" Co nods

"Thanks Co" Beck nods "We're just worried about her" I roll my eyes at them. They're always worried about me. To them I'll always be some little girl, when I'm far from it. I'm not a child anymore. I'm by no means grown, but I'm not a little kid.

"You know, I know you wanna protect her, but she's a big girl. She can protect herself" Co states

"We know, but's he still our sister" Beck shrugs

"I know but you gotta give her a little more freedom. What if she is talking to some new guy?" Caleb reasons

"We'll threaten him within an inch of his life if he hurts her" Arrest grins obviously proud.

I loved my brothers but they always resorted to unnecessary means.

"Dude that's what I'm talking about" Co chuckles "She hates that shit, she should be able to have a guy without one or all of us scaring him away"

"We didn't scare Dallas away"

"That's because Dallas was a cocky asshole" Co scoffed and I can't help but grin "but any other good guy, we've scared away for her"

"Yeah I guess you're right" Arrex huffs "We'll ease up, but you still gotta tell us if she tells you anything"

"Okay dude" Caleb laughs, it's uneasy though "I'll see you guys in a few"

"Yeah" They both say before walking away. Once I know they're gone, I come out of my hiding spot.

"So have you been talking to anyone lately?" Co smirks at me

"As a matter of fact, I have." I grin "He's really cute. Tall, adorable grin, perfect hair and eyes. Kind of a dick though"

"Wow couldn't be me" he scoffs playfully

"Never" I laugh before hooping up on my tippy toes to kiss his cheek "Now let's go we gotta get to class"

"Wait hold on I gotta talk to you, kinda serious," he says pulling em by my hand back to him "Belle we gotta tell them" he states seriously

"Co-"

"No. I'm being serious now Princess. Do you know how hard that was for me? I just lied straight to their faces. I have never done that to them before in my life. If you were anyone else, they would've been the first to know. I need to tell them Belle, I want to tell them together" he starts to ramble. He really did love them, they were his people, and I felt horrible for making him keep this from them.

"Okay. We can tell them soon, but can we just enjoy today?" I smile sadly up at his as he releases a breath of relief

"Of course, we've been together two months today" he laughs "Now princess, lets get to anatomy"

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After school, we all met up at Kane's. It feels like we haven't gotten together in weeks.

"So, guys" Em states with a huge grin "I have news"

"Spit it out!" I laugh

"I got accepted to Texas A&M!" She smiles brightly. That has been her dream school since freshman year, her number one goal was get into Texas A&M.

"Em that's awesome!!" I'm the first to speak

"I told you you'd be fine, you were freaking out over nothing" Arrex grins at her, she just rolls her eyes at him before looking around at the rest of us. All of us erupt in cheers for her. She was the first one to get her acceptance letter.

She starts laughing at all of our freak outs but eventually I watch as her laughter turn to tears.

"Dude why are you cryin?" Ty grins, throwing an arm around her shoulder

"We're graduating in three months, and leave for college in like five" she sniffles as few tears stream from her eyes

"Em we're gonna be okay" Jordan laughs "We are family, we even fight like one. Even if we're all spread across the country, we'll still always have here to come back to"

"But what if-"

"We'll still talk Em" Arrex answered her unfinished question for her "And we'll still all be there for each other just like we are now. Just now we're farther apart"

"I guess you guys are right" she huffs, wiping under here eyes where he mascara slightly smeared

"Bitch we know" both Jordan and Arrex grin "Now I say we should have celebratory shakes" A adds

"I'm in" Ty raises his hand "And then we should throw a kick ass celebration party"

"Hell yeah" Wes adds

"Let's stick to shakes for now" Ace laughs,

"Yeah, we can throw a party after we all get our acceptance letters" Em laughs, as Amy just nods along.

Arrex, Wes an Ty get up to grab us all milkshakes while the rest of us stay behind at our table. I was in my own little world, thinking about what Em had said when Co nudged my shoulder with his.

"What's goin on in that pretty little head of yours?" He grins down at me

"Nothin," I smile "just thinking about growing up"

"Eh we'll get older but I don't think we'll be anymore mature than we are now" he shrugs making me laugh. He wasn't wrong, out of all of us, in eight years, I'm willing to bet Ty is exactly the same as he is now.

"I think we'll somewhat mature. Well, all of us except Ty" I gesture to the blond boy who was now trying to stack the shakes while still drinking his

"Yeah definitely not" Caleb laughs before getting up to take some of the shakes away from Tyler and handing them out to everyone.

It's felt like forever since all of us hung out outside of school, and I couldn't help but think what's going to happen when we all leave.

That's a problem for another time though, right now I'm happy.