Ok, this is my first attempt at an LM story. Because it is centered around Ray and his relationship with his little sister, he is probably gonna be a little OOC but I will try and keep in as much IC as I can outside of the brother-sister dynamic. If I get it horribly wrong, feel free to PM me and give me pointers. LOL

There is a reason Ray Beech is a jerk. True, it is just who he is, but there is more to it than that.
He needs to protect her.
Every glare he gives to the guys when he walks down the hallway,
is so they know what they would be dealing with if they hurt her.
Its not like she cant protect herself.
But it is just the big brother's job.
And Ray took this job very seriously.
Ray Beech will always be there to protect Brooklyn Beech.

Chapter One

"Come on Brooks! We gotta go!" 18 year old Ray Beech shouted up the staircase.

"Whats the big deal? You know Brenigan wont do anything to you if youre late." 16 year old Brooklyn Beech appeared at the top of the stairs.

"But Coach will. We have a team meeting before class starts." He explained to his younger sister.;

Brooklyn looked at her brother as she held her place at the top of the stairs while she finished braiding her blonde hair.

"I highly doubt that. Youre the star player Ray. Coach isn't an idiot."

A heavy sigh exited from the player's lips. "Well, just incase he suddenly had a brain aneurism, will you hurry up?"

At the mention of an aneurism, Ray immediately regretted it.

"Sorry Brooks." He apologized.

"Its ok." Brooklyn responded as she caught a few tears that fell from her clear blue eyes.

What most people don't know, the Beechs recently lost their grandmother when she had complications from a brain aneurism.

Though it happened a few months prior, Brooklyn was still sensitive about the entire thing.

"Can we go please?" Ray asked again.

"Alright, alright." Brooklyn responded as she walked down the stairs, swinging her oversized blue purse onto her shoulder.

The two Beech teenagers left the house and walked out to Ray's pickup truck and climbed inside.

Ray pressed a button on his steering wheel and the gate surrounding the property opened, allowing him to back out into the street. He pressed the button again to close it but the gate didn't budge.

"Shit. Hold up a second." Ray told his sister. He climbed out of the truck and hussled over to the keypad.

While he was gone, Brooklyn's cell phone buzzed in her purse. She pulled it out and opened the text she just received.

'Where the hell are you?'

She slid her phone open, revealing the full keyboard and quickly wrote back.

'Just leaving the house. Be there in 15. –B'

A couple seconds after she hit send, another message appeared.

'Good.'

Brooklyn put her phone back into her purse just as Ray climbed back into the truck as the gate closed.

"Need to have Dad get that connection fixed. It never fuckin closes." He mumbled as he restarted as the engine roared to life.

"Your turn to tell him. He never listens to me about it. Says I am just not doing it right." Brooklyn rolled her eyes.

The ten minute ride to Mesa High School was oddly silent between the siblings.

Lately, the always vocal Brooklyn had been weirdly quiet around her big brother.

"You gonna wait for me after practice?" Ray asked when he pulled into a parking space in the Senior lot.

The younger blonde shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe. I'll let ya know."

Both teens got out of the cab and started walking into the main building.

"Hey." Ray caught her attention just before he walked into Coach's classroom.

She turned around and faced her brother, raising her eyebrows in a way of saying 'what?'

"Good luck on that chem test. You'll do fine." Ray told his little sister.

She gave him a quick smile. "Thanks."

"Hey Brooklyn." Ray's best friend Scott Pickett greeted her from just inside the door.

"Hey Scotty." She answered back and walked away.

Ray watched his little sister walk straight into the arms of her 17 year old boyfriend, Tony Prauge.

Tony waved when he saw Ray watching them. Ray nodded his head at him before heading into the classroom for the meeting.

About to type up the next chapter so it should be up in a couple hours. Just tweeking a couple things here and there. So look out for it very soon! :)