"Your looking as beautiful as ever this fine evening Miss Thompson" James says handing me a red rose as soon I walked out of Ava's house fully dressed up for our date.

"You look as dashing as ever as well Mister Wilson" I reply while taking the rose he held out before feeling my face flush when he held my hand up to his mouth before planting a soft kiss to my knuckles.

"Only for you"

My heart raced faster than ever at his reply. He took my hand in his while guiding me to his blue Bugatti as I remembered that not only was James the popular football quarter back at our school, he was also one of the richest football players at our school after my step brother of course.

Unlike the gigantic height my step brothers had, being halfway to 7 feet tall, James was around 6 feet 1 or 2 inches. Yes he was taller than me, but his height gap wasn't as large as the giants living in my house.

Thinking back on my relationship with James, our daily altercations together was either in the school hallways or in the kitchen at my house.

Of course with more than half of the city already knowing how protective my step brothers were if I ever made contact with a person of the opposite sex, James was always respectful towards me and always followed my step brothers rules about not getting to close to me.

The only difference with James and the other male friends my step brothers had that came around my house was that he never gave me the impression of wanting to get into my pants like how all 3 of my step brothers kept reminding me about was the only thing guys wanted if I let them talk to me.

Since James was close to Owen, he was always around the house more than anyone else my step brothers were friends with.

I've bumped into him so many times around that house that somewhere along the way we ended up having a routine where we'd talk using our hands and facial expressions since we didn't want the 3 assholes to start world war 3 in the house just by hearing us talk together.

I was so used to talking to James as my first guy friend throughout the years he was friends with Owen. Since he was always around the house anyways and I had no one else to talk to beside Ava who came over every once in a while.

I never took notice of the way James saw me until Ava told me a few months before I turned 18. She explained to me that she felt like James had feelings for me the day she caught me and James eating popcorn in the backyard of my house while my step brothers were sleeping over at whichever girl they chose that night to go home with.

And up until now, him taking me out on my very first date, I finally see what she meant.

"We have arrived malady" James says interrupting my thoughts as I noticed he turned off his car at a drive in theater.

"Oh my gosh, you remembered!" I gasp turning in my seat seeing him pull out a picnic basket from the backseat of his car.

"What can I say? Your unforgettable princess" he answers back while handing me a soft blanket as I felt my heart race at his cute gestures.

The day before I turned 18, James managed to sneak his way around my brothers during his visit to my house, and asked me about something I've always wanted to do but never had the chance to.

Of course, me being a softie for the oldies aesthetics, I told him that I've always wanted to go to a drive in theater to feel like I was in the 50s or something.

James opened up the picnic basket in his lap as I smiled when he pulled out two bags of popcorn, gummy bears, licorice, m&ms, chocolate chip cookies, brownies, potato chips, and two bottles of Coca Cola.

"What movie are we watching?" I ask while taking a sip from my drink.

"I may or may not have paid the outdoor theater owner to play your favorite movie for our date" He replies with a nervous chuckle as I felt myself falling for this cute football player in front of me.

"James, can I ask you something before the movie starts?"

I nervously ask while fiddling with my popcorn as he nods with a smile.

"Why did you want to take me out today?"

He looked at me like I was supposed to know something before he put down the drink in his hand and replaced the drink with my hand now making my emotions go haywire.

"This may seem all sudden to you now, but I've actually been wanting to do this since we first met"

I felt my face turning red at his confession.

"I know your brothers are over protective with you and if they saw us now, I'd be very much dead, but there's something I've been wanting to do for a long time. And now that we're seniors and graduation is right around the corner, I don't want to live the rest of my life full of regret for not doing this"

I looked at him confused as to what he was talking about, until he leaned in closer for something I had a feeling was going to happen on this date.

I leaned upwards to meet him halfway without thinking it over only to be shocked at the noise of his car door swinging open.

"Luca!" I gasp in shock as I watched my step brother drag James out of the car.

"Luca what the hell are you doing?!" I shout getting out after him seeing him already throwing punches at James who was trying to get off the floor.

"Get off him!"

I ran up to him to try to push him off only to have him turn around and drag me off to where his black Harley parked outside of the drive in theater.

"Stop manhandling me like I'm a child!"

"Maybe if you stopped acting like one, I wouldn't need to treat you like one!"

Pulling my arm out of his harsh grip, I leaned back to slap him across his stupid face but he caught my hand midway.

"Don't test me sweet cheeks. Get your little tight ass on the back of my bike or I'll tie you down on it like I did before"

I glared up at him trying to take my hand back but he continued to keep his large hand around my wrist. Continuing to try to resist his cave man ways, I ended up feeling to exhausted to fight him and let him take me home on the back of his Harley.

Right when he parked in our drive way I jumped off quickly feeling irritated and angry at him for ruining my first date.

"Get back here! I wasn't finished with you!"

Rolling my eyes, I continued walking up the stairs of our house to get to my bedroom and slamming the bedroom door loudly to make my statement.

Luca banged on my door while shouting out threats for me to open it as I laid on my bed putting on my headphones refusing to get up to hear the lecture he was going to be shouting for the next hour or so.

I already knew he burst through the door before I could close my eyes to ignore him.

"Go away"

I pretended to seem like I was about to go to sleep but of course, Luca being Luca, he laid behind me on my bed since I was laying sideways on the right side of my bed.

"You know how I feel about these little boys being around you"

I rolled my eyes to myself before turning around to face him. I already knew the whole routine Luca did every time he manhandled me in front of people and than came to my room afterwards to apologize, and I already knew if I didn't accept his apology he was going to stay out in the same place until I did.

"Why do you always ruin my life? Every time I try to do something that makes me happy, you always come at the last moment to fuck it all up"

His green eyes looked back at me with guilt before he covered it up quickly with a sigh.

"Mom and dad may not be around to protect you, but I am. Always have and always will be. Ever since I came into your life fate decided beforehand to put me as your protector. And that's exactly what I'm doing. You may not see things the way I see them because of how innocent you are right now, but every little boy that comes around you and even looks at you, has something in the back of their peanut brain that leads them to do something to you that I'll never let them do"

He explains while pushing a strand of my hair behind my ear as I tried to calm the sudden butterflies in my stomach I always got when me and Luca had one on one conversations alone.

"And what is that Superman?"

"If I told you, your little cute innocence will go away. Can't have that happening anytime soon"

He laughs as I smiled at how cute he looked whenever he smiled or laughed with the two cute dimples in his cheeks.

"I just wanted to be like you guys for once"

His laugh died down as his perfect black eyebrow raised in suspicion.

"You guys are always bragging about having sex and making out with like ten billions girls a week, so why can't I go out and do the same wit-" Before I even finished my explanation Luca shot up from my bed with an angry look.

"There's a big difference between what us grown men do and what your thinking you wanna do with those little boys at school"

"But-"

"No buts Jezzabelle! If I see you with another little asshole like tonight, a few punches won't be the only thing happening to him"

"See! That's what I mean right there! You guys never let me do something I want to do!"

"Because we're your older brothers. Which means you listen to whatever the fuck we say!"

"But I don't get get angry at you guys having fucking orgy parties all over the damn house! So why the fuck should I listen to you guys when I say I wanna go fuck some guy at school!"

And.......

that's when I knew....

I fucked up.....

"Luca stop!" I shout trying to run away from him only for him to slam my body against the wall beside my bed holding onto my neck.

"Listen carefully sweet cheeks. If I catch you with one of those little boys from school or anywhere else in this damn world, I'll skin him alive than beat your cute little tight ass until it turns purple you got that?"

I nodded quickly feeling his grip around my neck become life threatening.

Dropping me onto my bed, I watched as Luca walked out of my bedroom slamming the door close on his way out.

I laid down on my bed with a relieved sigh hearing his loud Harley roaring off down the street of our block from my open window.

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