I love my sister. I really do but there are some things I wish she didn't know. I just can't do anything about it because I'm still a minor. Well at least for another nine months in the eyes of the law. Until then, she's my legal guardian. I am thankful every day that she came to my rescue from our home life considering the hell she was going through on her own. I'm a young girl falling in love for the very first time and when she's not around, I have my adorable little niece as her eyes. But if it hadn't been for her, he would have never started talking to me that day.
"Why is that boy watching us Aunt Cassie?" Gracie's eyes had briefly diverted from the screen.
"Huh?" I looked up and the little turkey took me down yet again on her favorite Wii game.
"You're too easy Aunt Cassie. "She giggled.
"I let you win Curly Sue," I said and pulled her onto my lap.
"I bet I can beat you," Came the voice from across the room.
"Who is that?"
"One of those stupid boys you don't like," I replied as I made eye contact with him. "Do you?"
"Why don't we let him play you and see if he really can beat you." I smiled at him. He was kind of cute.
"Prepare to be defeated little lady," he said as he took a place on the couch next to us.
"Nobody beats me right Aunt Cassie?" She said defiantly but looked up to me for reassurance.
"Why don't we play him and see if he can beat the two of us," I said as I smiled at him yet again. I kept getting this fluttery feeling in my stomach when he smiled back. I didn't like guys like him. He was almost prettier than me. Almost being the key word.
"What do I get if I win?" He flirted.
"You have to win to find out but she is undefeated."
"So she's not yours?" "You thought?" I laughed. " I was a baby myself when she was born."
"So who does she belong to?"
"My sister, Jade." "Jade is your sister?" "You're not afraid of her are you?"
"Should I be?" "Everybody's afraid of Mommy and if you don't get to playing with me soon, you will be too," Gracie grinned sweetly.
"Well I guess we should get to playing then," he returned.
"See, that's all you have to do Aunt Cassie. Boys aren't that dumb," Gracie said to me and grabbed her controller.
That kid could make me blush. We really hadn't got to talk to the guys since the tour started a week ago and he and I had been doing the flirting with your eyes thing since then. Gracie was a watchdog and I had to watch myself when it came to her.
"James! Let's go! It's time for the meet and greet!" One of the others poked his head in the door. I didn't know them all by name yet but I recognized his face. Now I had a name to go with the face I was starting to have a thing for.
"You mean he's not gonna play with us Aunt Cassie?" Gracie pouted.
"He can't right now Gracie. He has to work," I answered her.
"I owe you one okay?" He answered her.
"You better or Mommy will hurt you."
"Then I'll make sure you're on my schedule for tomorrow okay?" "Okay," she agreed.
"It was nice to finally meet you Cassie," He said with that smile of his. Oh God did it make me want to do things I shouldn't be doing at my age.
"Come on James! Let's go!" "Shut up Logan! I'll be there in a minute!"
I smiled shyly at being the cause of his tardiness. "It was nice to meet you James."
"See ya later!" He said as he left the room.
"Do you like him Auntie Cassie?" Gracie inquired after he left.
"I don't know." "I think you want him to be your boyfriend."
"I think you need to mind your own business little miss nosey butt," I teased her but she was right. I did like him. There was no denying that.
So that was the first time we spoke. Exciting huh? When you're my age, anything a guy does is exciting but I still have to contend with Jade. She's not happy at all about how this all developed being as he's older than me. She's one to talk. I saw the way she looked at Kendall the first time they set eyes on each other. I may be young but I'm certainly not blind. Sometimes I wish my life were different but I got a huge break and Jade wasn't about to let me spoil it for some boy. To me, he wasn't just any boy. To me he was already becoming the man of my dreams.