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Chapter 4: Friends or Lovers?
(Aliya's pov)
I heard a bird chirping and starting waking up. The sun was shining brightly into the barn and I was sleeping against Ray and- wait. Ray? Wasn't he sleeping over there? How did he...? I tilted my head up to see that he was still sleeping and felt him pull me closer to him. One of my hands was up against his chest while the other arm was down someone on his leg. He had one hand on the small of my back while the other was somewhere along my stomach. I tried to move my leg, but was stopped by the fact that it was between Ray's. If Kai saw this he would-
"What the heck?"
I turned my head as far as I could in the current position and saw Kai standing over us. I gulped and tried to push away from Ray. No luck. He just squeezed me tighter, making Kai's eyes bulge practically out of his head. "Ray, get up," I tried whispering into his nearby ear. Kai was practically seething. I could almost see the steam coming from his ears. I pulled my hand that was on his leg to help me push away and accidentally touched something hard. I froze. Whatever it was was poking me in the hip. Ray took a deep breath and opened his eyes. He smiled at me, said, "Hey," and then pulled me into a kiss. He was obviously completely oblivious to the fact that a very angry man was standing not five feet from him.
"Get off my sister!" Kai yelled before jumping on Ray. I screamed and rolled away. Right off the pile of hay. And it was just the break of day. (im done now XD) Ray was trying hard to block Kai's punches from his face while Kai kneeled over him, letting them fly.
I grabbed Kai by the shoulders and tried to pull him off. "Kai, stop it! Leave him alone! It won't happen again!" I yelled. Finally, Kai stopped, sending us both flying onto my back. "Ow," I grunted as I shoved him off of me.
Ray stood and shook himself off. "Jeez, Kai! I'm sorry man, it was an accident!" He wiped a little stream of blood from his lip.
"Accident my butt! I can't believe- Oh, my god." Kai stopped, looked at Ray's pants, and then glared a death-glare at Ray.
"Kai?" I asked. "What's-"
"Ah, crap," Ray muttered, his face turning red as he tried to cover his crotchal area.
Kai grimaced. "You just got an erection...from my sister. Christ! I need to take a walk." And with that he left. Those were some strong words for my virgin ears. And eyes. My face burned bright red and I looked at the floor, biting my lip.
"Um," Ray started, "I'm gonna-"
"Yea-"
"I'll see you-"
"Okay-"
"Bye." He kissed me on the cheek and left, still covering his happy friend.
I slumped down onto the hay and put my head in my hands. This was gonna be a long day. I heard a yawn and then, "Good morning." Zettie was awake. She sat up and said, "God, it's bright. Where are Ray and Kai?" I shook my head and stood up.
"Let's go wash up and then get back home." I grabbed her hand and led her stumbling outside.
(Kai's pov)
I know she likes him and that he likes her. Obviously. There's no way to hide that now. I sighed and walked into town for a drink or something. Just as I was stepping onto the road, a buggy zoomed past, practically slicing my head off. "Hey, watch it!" I yelled at them as the screeched and screamed. "You freakin' idiots!"
"Kai?"
My head snapped around at the familiar voice. "Hilary?"
"Yea, I thought you were leaving this morning?" she asked, pulling me into an embrace. "How are you doing?"
"Well," I replied, "I just found my little sister sleeping with my best friend. That kind of thing can really screw with a guy."
"Aw, that sucks. Anything I can do to make it better?" she asked sincerely. Deep in my mind, the following senario played out:
"Anything I can do to make it better?" she asked seductively, biting her lip and batting her eyelashes, pulling her sleeves off her shoulders.
"Why, yes, Hilary," I said, taking a step toward her. "Yes, there is." I growled as she jumped on me, wrapping her legs around my waist. Our lips collided and she opened her lips to let my tongue wrap around her own. I pressed her back against a tree. She arched her back against me and moaned into my mouth. She ran her fingers through my hair as my hand slip up her leg and up under dress.
"Oh, Kai, Kai-"
"Kai?" she asked, a confused look spreading over her features.
"Oh, uh," I stammered, blinking a few times in the light. "What did you say?"
She grinned and repeated, "Is there anything I can do to make it better?"
"Well," I said, running my hands through my own hair. "You could show me where I can get breakfast for four to go." She smiled, grabbed my hand, and pulled me after her.
(Zettie's pov)
"God, my head hurts like the dickens," I moaned, scrunching my eyes and rubbing my head.
"Well, seeing how much you drank last night, I'm not really surprised," I told her.
The night was starting to come back to me after walking around in the fresh air. Even though those freaking birds were drilling a freaking whole in my freaking head. "Hey, was I with a red-haired dude last night?" I asked her.
She grinned and got all starry-eyed. "I really don't know. I was with Ray the whole night. He asked me to mar-"
"I think I was with a red-haired dude. I think his name was...yea, it was Brooklyn. He was hot. I wonder where he is..."
"Zettie! Ray asked me to marry him!" she bursted.
I winced and put a hand to my forehead. "Jeez, Li, can you keep it down? I have a splitting- wait. What? He asked you? That's great!"
"I know! And Kai found us kissing and punched Ray, but it's alright. They're both...out...walking...somewhere."
I smiled. Good for her. But now back to me. "So do you think we'll see Brooklyn again? He was really hot."
"Well, there's a red head over there. Is that him? The guy stumbling out of the woods in his long johns?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows and pointing towards the trees behind me. "There's another one. And another- god, there's like six dudes coming out of the woods in there underwear. What the heck were they doing?"
"You and your dirty mind, Liya. Let's go talk to them," I suggested, grabbing her hand and pulling her after me. "Hey," I yelled out to them. The red-head turned and quickly covered his...area. As did all his buddies.
"Zettie?" he asked once we were a little closer.
"Yea. Hi," I said. We stopped right in front of them and they stood there looking embarrassed. As did Liya. But not I! "So, what were you guys doing in there?"
"Um," Brooklyn stammered. "Sleeping. You know. We don't have a place to sleep so we find what we can for the night."
"It must have been pretty hot in there," I said with a smirk, letting my eyes travel down his body to his long johns. I could see almost his whole body turn a nice shade of red.
"Yea, well...what can I say?" he answered, shifting uncomfortably.
Then a thought popped in my mind. It was a pretty good plan, if I do say so myself. I don't think Liya or Kai would think so, but mother just might go for it... "Hey, what about if you guys came back to our place?"
"Zettie!" Aliya exclaimed, followed by many confused and hopeful, "What?"s Aliya grabbed my arm and turned me around, pulling me a few steps away.
"What are you thinking? Inviting six guys to come to our house? What do you think mom would- Heck, what would Kai say?" she asked.
"Well, I think mom would enjoy some more help and so would Kai. We wouldn't have to pay them I don't think. They'd work for food and a roof over their heads. What's the worst that could happen?" I replied.
"Well," she started, "they could be murderers or theives or, god, rapists!"
"Oh, come on!"
"I just don't know."
"Well, I think it's a good idea." I turned back around and heard Aliya sigh behind me. "So what do you say? You come work on our farm for free food and a place to sleep?"
Brooklyn shrugged and turned to the others. They shrugged, too. "Great," I said with a grin. "Go get your clothes and stuff and meet us by that barn over there." As the guys walked into the woods, Aliya and I walked back to the barn. We could see Ray walking around outside and waved to him when we got close enough.
(Ray's pov)
"Hey," I said as they walked up from somewhere. "Li, I'm really sorry about this morning." I felt my cheeks heat up and bit my lip. Liya blushed to and replied, "It's really okay, Ray." She squeezed my hand and smiled shyly.
"Okay, lovebirds," Zettelina mocked. "Where's Kai?"
Ray answered, "I don't know. He left for town and hasn't come back."
"Well, I'll head that way until I find him," Zettie suggested.
"Find who?" I turned around and there stood Kai, arms crossed, pursing his lips. "I got the carriage fixed. We can leave now." And he walked away.
"Well, someone's got a stick up his a-"
"Zettie," Aliya warned. "Let's just get home before mom starts to worry."
We headed toward the front of the barn where the carriage was waiting. Kai was throwing bales of hay into the back. "Need some help?" I asked him, picking up a pile. He didn't reply. "Listen, Kai, I know me being with Li is really hard for you to allow or whatever, but you need top know that I love her and I am going make sure that she is happy for the rest of her life. I swear, if I some how end up hurting her, you can kill me or whatever else you want to do to me and-"
"Ray. Just...okay. I guess if she's going to get married to anyone, I'd rather have it be someone I know everything about and will be able to easily blackmail," he replied with a smirk. "Oh, and I'll hold you to letting me kill you." He patted my shoulder then threw some hay at me. "Now help me put this in the back."
(Aliya's pov)
"Let's go, Zettie! Aliya! Get in the carriage already!" Kai yelled from the front seat.
"Just a second," Zettie replied. "I just want...um...one last stretch before having to sit in the back forever." We were standing on the other side of the barn waiting for Brooklyn and his friends to get here.
"What is taking him so long?" I asked her, looking around nervously.
"Can't really tell you, Liya, because I'm standing here with you," she said, stretching her neck to look farther.
Then I heard Kai's voice. "Can I help you?"
Then another voice: "Yea, I'm actually looking for a girl named Zettie. She's supposed to be giving us a ride to-"
"What did you just say-"
"Brooklyn! Finally. Just hop on in the back," Zettie said, running around the barn to talk to them.
"What are you talking about, Zettie? Why are they getting in my carriage? Zettie, what the heck?!" Kai screamed, jumping down from the seat.
I jumped in between them and put my hands on Kai's chest. It took a while to explain it all and keep Kai from pulling each guy out by their dirty hair. He harumphed and got back in the seat. Ray jumped up next to him and, since there was no more room, I had to climb in the back. Zettie was on Brooklyn's lap playing with his hair. I squeezed in between a tall blue haired guy and a really buff teal haired guy. I tried to pull my arms and legs as close to myself as possible. It smelled incredibly gross.
The wagon started rolling and my butt began to bruise. It was going to be a long, uncomfortable trip.
(Zettelina's pov)
Time flew by on our way back home. It was so much fun! Brooklyn introduced all of his friends: Charlie, Will, Ian, Pete, and Kyle. They were really cool. They taught me this song about 100 bottles of beer and we sang it all the way until 43 when Kai stopped the wagon and threatened all of our lives. We kept going though, singing quietly to ourselves. Although Aliya was so uncomfortable, she still managed to fall asleep and fell over with her head on Will's lap. He looked shocked for a second, but then smirked, wiping the hair out of her face. Brooklyn had his hand on my back and kept slowly tracing circles right on the small of my back, making me shiver. I couldn't help smiling. He had really amazing eyes, too.
When we reached Ray's house, it had only felt like an hour or four. He said to keep going because he wanted to talk with my mom. So we did. As soon as we pulled up to a stop in front of our house. I bolted out of the back and stretched my legs. "You guys should wait out here while I talk with my mother, okay? Don't want anything bad to happen yet," I told them as they jumped out as well. Will had gently, and with great ease, carried Liya out of the wagon and was looking for a place to set her down. Ray came over and took her from him, glaring as he made his way inside the house.
Will asked, "What's with him?"
"Oh, nothing. They're just engaged as of yesterday," I told him. He just grinned.
"Sucks for me. You're sister is hot."
"Don't let Ray or Kai hear you say that," I warned him and skipped into the house. "Mother!" I yelled. She was in the kitchen, making dinner. "I know it's kind of sudden and everything, but there were six guys who didn't have a place to sleep and were willing to come back with us to help out at the farm and I said they could have free food and a place to sleep if they did. Hope it's okay because I don't know how they'd get back to town if you said no."
Mother blinked a few times like she was trying to comprehend the babble that had just cascaded out of my mouth. She shrugged and said, "We do need help. I guess they can stay as long as they are clean whenever they are in my house and as long as they follow all of my rules. They can sleep in the house for now until we can get the barn cleaned up a little.. We have extra pillows and blankets upstairs if you want to get them."
"Oh, thank you, ma!" I squeezed her hard, kissed her cheek seven times, and then ran upstairs. I threw the pillows and blankets into the empty room across from Kai's and ran back downstairs.
"Wait, Zettie, dear! I have some great news for you!" mom called after me.
"Just a second!" I yelled back. I told the guys the good news and they whooped and hollered. I showed them their room and they started getting settled. I heard Ray and Liya talking to mom and then a loud scream of happiness.
(Kai's pov)
I unloaded the wagon and put the horses in the barn. I heard someone scream and ran back to the house. "What happened?" I asked. Mother was hugging Ray and Liya was beaming. "Oh," I said, realizing what was going on.
"Now, Ray, honey, since you're going to be part of this family I think you should stay here tonight. It's much to dark for you to walk home tonight and you're very tired. You can stay in Kai's room, if that's alrighty, Kai, dear."
"Yes, mom, that's fine," I replied, heading upstairs. "Oh, Kai, send Zettie down, please. I need to tell her something important.
I knocked on the door to the extra room and told Zettie to go downstairs. She sighed, told them she'd be right back, and ran down. Ray came up with Aliya a few seconds later, holding each other and smiling. "Jeez, just wait until the wedding night," I mocked and entered my room, not before seeing them both blush dark red and look at the floor. I heard them say goodnight as I pulled off my dirty shirt, followed by the sounds of lip smacking and slurping. I shut my eyes and tried to tune it out. I heard a slight moan and that was it. "Ray," I said warningly. He hurried a goodnight again and then came in. He was still grinning as he said sorry.
(Zettie's pov again)
"What?!" I screamed. "What the heck are you talking about?! How could you?!"
"Zettie, dear, calm down. This is a great thing! He asked for your hand, honey! You're getting married! He's very nice and he'll provide a very nice life for you and-" she explained.
"I don't care! I don't love him! I don't even know the guy! I will not marry him, I will not!" I screamed back.
"Now, listen here, young lady. This Enrique fellow is the only one who has asked you. You are getting older and you need to find a good man to marry you. Enrique is a good man," she tried to reason with me.
"I don't care what you think about him after meeting him for five minutes," I replied, my fists balling up and tears coming to my eyes. "I will not marry him."
"Zettie," she replied softly. "I just really don't think you're going to have many choices here. With your personality, I don't know if you will ever find love. I just don't know."
That was all I could take. "So that's how you feel? That I'm not good enough for love? I'm some kind of freak who no one will want to marry except for this stranger I met while shopping?" I ask her, the tears falling onto my cheeks and landing on the floor. I turned and ran out of the kitchen, out the front door, and just kept running. I ran toward the woods, tears splashing out of my eyes and loud sobs coming from my throat. I stumbled in the darkness, but kept going. I leaned against a tree to keep from falling over. I sank down, my head resting on the bark of the tree. It was just too much to take. The tears wouldn't stop even when the sobs started dying down.
I heard a rustle and footsteps coming closer. "Zettie?" someone called out. I sniffled in response and suddenly someone was at my side. "Zettie, are you alright? I saw you running and-"
The sobs started again as I buried my face in Brooklyn's chest, grabbing fistfuls of his shirt to hold him close. He was warm against the cold night air. He held me tight and rocked me back and forth, whispering sweet-nothings in my ear. I spluttered out about Enrique and the betrothal. He pushed me back and gripped me by the shoulders. "Don't worry, Zettie," he said, staring into my eyes. "I will not let this happen to you. You are too great of a girl for some old guy to get to marry. Ugh, can you imagine your wedding night?"
I laughed despite the tears. He pulled me back again and whispered, "I'll help you, Zettie," and kissed my ear, then my hair, my forehead, my nose, my cheek, and finally his lips pressed against my own. I kissed back and slowly, all the sadness and pain and anger turned to passion as the kissed deepened. I gripped his back and arched against him, letting his tongue rove around my mouth. He pushed me down on my back and rubbed down my sides. I moaned softly as his hands touched my cold thigh. He lifted my skirt up to my waist and I lifted my leg up over his. He moved to my neck, turning from soft kisses to a painful love bite. His hands rested on my chest for a second before he pushed himself off of me.
"What's wrong?" I asked, trying to catch my breath.
He bit his lip. "It just doesn't feel right. I mean, my mind keeps jumping to the fact that, until further notice, you're engaged. I know you don't want to be, but we can't do this. Not now, at least."
I sighed. "I guess I understand. But, before we go back, just kiss me again." He grinned and pressed himself to me again.
(Aliya's pov)
I guess you could say I'm a pretty light sleeper so the sound of footsteps on the creaking floorboards of my room woke me with a start. "Who's there?" I whisper.
Suddenly the come into the moonlight from my window. "Just me," Ray replies. He lays next to me on the bed and drapes his arm over my body. "Sorry to wake you. I woke up and couldn't fall asleep so I just wanted to lay with you for a while."
I grinned as his arm moved slightly back and forth against my waist, sending chills up my spine. "That's perfectly alright with me. But did you ask Kai?"
He chuckles quietly. "No, but I think it'd be mildly okay. As long as I didn't do this." He scooted closer so our bodies were touching and kissed my lips softly. When they left mine, I felt cold and wanted them to warm me again.
"Yea, I don't think he'd be okay with that," I replied. "Or this." I draped a leg over his and softly kissed a line from shoulder to collarbone, along his jaw and one on his lips. I felt goosebumps on his arm as I caressed his soft skin.
"Then definetly not this," he said, flipping me to my back and kissing me passionately. Our tongues fight for dominance, but I let him win as a moan escapes my throat. My hands run through his long hair as he nibbles my bottom lift runs his fingers along my side. Once again I start to feel something poking me in the thigh. My breath catches in my throat as I groan out his name. He squeezes one of my breasts and my body arches against his. His other hand gently strokes my face as our lips continue to move together, tongues exploring greedily. I can barely breathe, but I can't stop. Just when I think I'm about to melt into the bed, he sits up.
"I should go back to Kai's room before he awakes and pops his head in here. I think I'll be able to sleep now," he states. I smile and sit up, pressing my lips to his again for one last passionate embrace. He slowly stands up and at the door, whispers, "To be continued." I laugh, quietly as he shuts me door. I'm still trying to catch my breath and slow my beating heart as my eyes start to close and sleep overcomes me.
Well, what did you think? I think it turned out pretty nicely. Mostly just off the top of my head, as I'm writing kind of stuff. Hopefully you enjoyed it and will be ready for the next chapter. I just have to write a chapter of my other story International Divine K . So send some reviews and be ready for chapter 5!!!
-GuitarChick14
