I've been best friends with Aubrey since I was four. We went to the same preschool and I ended up slapping her with a piece of turkey. Normally it would have gone on a sandwich but I wasn't into bread at the time. But I did it because she took my place mat with whinnie the Pooh on it. Some how after that little incident we became best friends during snack time. We shared some pretzels because my snack was obviously gone when I slapped her with it and she was nice enough to share hers.

Aubrey was the nicest person you could meet unless you pissed her off to the extreme. Like her brother does. Her brother is two years older than us. Or almost two years older. He's been away at military school because he got into a bunch of trouble. Not with just one thing but a lot of things. He hasn't been around since he was sixteen himself.

It's been a month since the school year started. Aubrey and I were sitting in her living room. She was laying on the floor with her legs on the couch with her phone above her scrolling through Facebook. My head was on her stomach and my right leg was on the couch doing the exact same thing she was.

"Did you hear Lynn's pregnant?" She said.

"Yeah that stupid hoe" I replied.

"Who's a hoe?" Someone asked coming in. I look up from my phone to see Jaxon. Aubrey's brother. He was in army pants and a dark blue t-shirt that showed off his muscles. He dropped a green duffel bag on the floor.

"You are" Aubrey said laughing. He moved over me and pulled her away. My head hit the floor and I immediately sat up. I looked at them and laughed. They were play fighting like they use to when we were younger.

"Okay I give" Aubrey shouts. Jaxon gets off of her and looks at me.

"Well you've changed" he said.

"I hit puberty" I replied standing up and sitting down on the couch.

"Makes sense since the last time I saw you I think you were what fourteen?" He replied. I nodded looking at my phone. I wasn't going to lie. Jaxon got hotter. If that's possible. Aubrey got up and grabbed her phone. She sat down next to me.

"Why are you here?" She asked. I looked up at him.

"Mom and dad didn't tell you? I'm back. For my senior year" he said sitting down on the chair.

"Gonna do anything crazy?" She asked.

"Nah I'm about to be an adult and can be charged as an adult if I get into anymore trouble. Plus military school kind of gets you out of that stuff" he answered.

"I still can't believe you peed on a cop car" I said shaking my head.

"I had to take a leak and I was drunk so" he replied shrugging his shoulders. I shook my head again and got up. I went to the kitchen and grabbed a Pepsi. I came back to the living room.

"Your parents let you drink that now?" He asked with a smirk.

"Shut up" I said sitting down and taking a drink. My parents are a touchy subject to me. They got divorced a few months ago and don't really pay much attention to me.

"I'm going to go unpack. Talk later" he said getting up and grabbing his bag. He looked at me and winked with a big ass smile on his face before he went upstairs.

Aubrey's parents gave us money for dinner because they were going to their annual company party for more investors .

"Wanna go out to eat or order in?" She asked me.

"Out" I answered wanting to go do something other than our usual which was sitting on the couch watching tv and being on our phones. She nodded. Jaxon came into the living room sitting down on the other couch.

"We are going out for food. You wanna come?" Aubrey asks. He looks at us and smiles.

"Yeah" he answered. He got up grabbed his keys from his front pocket of his joggers. I got off the couch and went to grab my bag which had my wallet in it. Aubrey already went out to the car and Jaxon stood by the door waiting for me so he could probably lock the door.

"Hey are we good?" He asked me.

"Yeah why wouldn't we be?" I asked.

"Because of my last night here" He answered. I tried not thinking about it. I didn't want to. I wanted to forget everything that happened the months leading up to it.

"We're fine let's get food. I'm hungry" I lied. He nodded his head looking down and we went to the car. I got in the back and so did Aubrey.

"You know one of you can sit up front with me" he said after we got into the car because we were both sitting in the back of the car. Aubrey shrugged and looked at me.

"Go" she said nudging me to go up front. I nodded and got out groaning to myself at having to sit next to him right now. I went up front and put my seat belt on. I took my phone from my pocket and looked at Facebook putting my attention to something else other than him. Jaxon took my phone out of my hands and put it in his pocket quickly.

"Yo give it back" I said.

"When we get back to the house" he replied with a smirk.

"What about Aubrey's?" I complained. He shrugged and started driving. I shook my head and crossed my arms leaning back into the seat.

We got to the Chinese restaurant and we got seated at a booth. I sat down by Aubrey and Jaxon was across from us. She took our drink orders and we went to get some food. After we sat back down and started eating some guys from school showed up. They were Jaxons old friends. He stood up and went over there to talk to them.

"I hope he doesn't get involved with them again. They are part of the reason he got sent away" Aubrey said. I nodded looking over there. Jaxon looked over and winked at me. I shook my head and continued eating. I kept glancing over there at him.