Okay so, this chapter is brought to you by my sympathetic and wonderful boss. Haha. But, for real, my boss was kind enough to offer up a random day off to me today after how much slack I was picking up and I think he had mercy on my soul which I greatly appreciated. So… I decided to use this opportunity to curl up on my couch with my laptop and type up the latest chapter in record time like a writing FOOL! Haha. Anyway, the basis of this chapter is that after Alejandro and Heather got engaged and though Kelsey and José still kept 'seeing each other' through that month of January, the two ended up going their separate ways out of 'routine' with neither of them being too monogamous or committal when it comes to other people (especially José). This chapter takes place a month into them not seeing or talking to each other and where these two devious, underhanded shitbag older siblings of Aleheather are at currently. Haha. Hope you enjoy it! :)

({No POV})

It was a Friday night in late February and a downtown Toronto night club was already in full swing.

People packed up out on the dance floor, ordering drinks from the servers and bartenders, and some groups of people 'surveying the scene' from the sidelines looking for something interesting.

One of these groups was José and a few of his 'friends' from his gym looking to 'get lucky'.

Which usually was what José was all about… until recently in some respects.

Though he and a particular individual parted amicably to do their own thing a little over a month ago, José just started taking up his old routine of casual and regular random hookups with women… things weren't exactly 'the same' as José recalled and he has done nothing but 'strike out' to a strange yet frustrating degree.

And his most recent '3rd strike' happened just recently... and was probably the worst out all of them.

The previous week

An apartment hallway was quiet until all of a sudden a door was flung open and a half naked José (who had barely gotten his boxers on) was shoved into the hall by a VERY put out looking young woman in a long blouse and nothing else about his age who fumed in absolute offense, "Who in the FUCK is 'Kelsey'?!"

Although in clearly a sticky situation, this wasn't the first time this has happened to José.

In fact, it happened 3 weeks ago… and again last week… and now happening yet again at the current moment with his latest random hookup he met at a bar.

The same thing would always happen.

They'd get back to the apartment of his 'late night special', start making out and getting into the situation, but once the foreplay began… José just couldn't get himself into it. Well, mostly José wasn't getting himself 'off' or was as 'turned on' by these random encounters like he used to before meeting, or more accurately 'experiencing' Kelsey and what she brought to the table.

So… José would start fantasizing a bit to get more into the situation only to slip up and say Kelsey's name by accident. Which immediately would get him shoved out and a door slammed in his face by the first two girls he hooked up with after he and Kelsey went separate ways.

But this current girl in front of him… she was pissed ten fold and looked like she wanted answers.

José; however, was not about to be made a fool of as he retorted in annoyance and flustered anger back at the young woman, "And what does it matter to you?!"

The young woman immediately got fueled with rage as she spat in absolute offense yet again, "Oh seriously?! I bring you back to my place and start getting you off and you have the fucking BALLS to say some other stupid chick's name in front of me?! WHAT?! Am I some fucking 'side chick' for you to cheat with or something?! Do you even remember what my fucking name is?!"

Although internally José knew he was caught for several reasons, especially since he did completely forget her name but also didn't care since it's not like he was ever going to see her again even if they did hook up to completion.

But, José was already backed into a corner and was despising every moment of it as he grimaced and scoffed before retorting, sounding nothing short of rude and immature, "Well, perhaps, if someone knew what she was doing then I would've had no need to think of someone else that does, now would I?!"

Immediately the young woman grit her teeth and smacked him hard across the face, making José drop the rest of his clothes he was holding and backtrack as he held the side of his face.

She looked as if she was about to slam the door shut to her apartment on him until she stopped short and reopened it before spitting in rage, "And fyi, it's Teagan, dick."

After her apartment door slammed shut and José proceeded to stand there in shock for several more moments, he huffed in flustered and pissed off annoyance at striking out for the 3rd time in a hook up.

José proceeded to grumble, swear, and grunt to himself as he started putting his clothes back on.

As he did so, he saw a guy just staring at him outside of another apartment door in total confusion until José just lashed out pointedly, "What are you staring at?!"

Immediately the neighbor just went wide eyed and quickly escaped into his own apartment immediately after.

Present day

Even though José was flustered and deep down embarrassed by what happened last week all over again after thinking about it, he stomped it down as he took his shot of tequila he had yet to down quite yet as he kept looking around.

Sure he was flustered at not getting laid in over a month for one thing, but… he also had no idea what was even happening to him anymore?

He had no shame in picking up where he left off in his random hookups and yet… it was also like he couldn't see the point.

No matter what every time, all he could think of whenever he was with other girls was Kelsey and also how much superior Kelsey was in his opinion at completely physically 'satisfying him' in sexual situations than anyone else he ever met.

He kept looking around at other girls in the club and seeing a few of his friends already going in and trying to make moves on girls that caught their interest.

But as much as José forced himself to do the same… it was like all he did was fluster himself even more as he grabbed another shot from the standing table he was at and swilled it down, grimacing and letting out a sigh at the satisfying burn going down his throat.

But, it was like that didn't help either as he kept looking around and getting more and more irritated.

Every time he looked at another girl, all he could do was bring up Kelsey and compare them to her. Almost as if she was now his 'gold standard' to compare to.

Even if it didn't entirely matter since he usually just took up any pretty girl willing to have sex with him in the past… he looked as if he couldn't be bothered at the moment.

If the last three girls he tried to hook up with in the past month taught him anything at this point about himself, unless if they could 'satisfy him' in the way that Kelsey did or he at least went through some demented effort of only hooking up with other girls named 'Kelsey' going forward to prevent another 'awkward moment' and being thrown out.

José just couldn't wrap his head around it.

Aside from only having one girlfriend (kind of) in his life for barely two months when he was 15 only to realize he didn't care much for having a relationship, with said relationship ending in him cheating on his girlfriend with another girl and everything fell apart pretty quickly after that.

Or at least that's what he thought?

He had no idea what was going on.

It was almost as if to him he was infected with a parasite that made him practically infatuated with Kelsey and everything about her.

Making him want her. Crave her. Need her?...

He shook his head as he quickly grabbed another shot and downed it.

He scrunched his eyes before slamming the shot glass down on the table before gripping a hand into his hair and growling in sexual frustration, "Ay, carajo…"

Everything just frustrated him to completion at this point. Even letting out his aggression at the gym and in his boxing bouts seemed almost ineffective.

Despite José being a trained boxer and took it up originally at the age of 10 at the suggestion of one of his teachers to Gerardo and Elena to help him constructively 'channel his anger', he mostly just used it these days to show off and use to his advantage in fights.

And aside from engaging in casual hookups, boxing was a way of blowing off steam for him.

But even boxing seemed almost completely useless to him right now.

Another minute of sulking went by before he started scanning the room again.

Well, until he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him when he caught the side profile of a girl with shoulder length and thick dark raven hair leaning on the bar and reaching for a cosmopolitan that was just set down for her by the bartender.

Kelsey Wilson.

After the shock passed, at first José could hardly believe Kelsey happened to be in the same nightclub as he was… but he was quick to realize he wasn't the only one.

He saw another guy at another corner of the room also taking notice of Kelsey and eventually started to slowly make his way over to her.

José started to feel every muscle in his entire being lock up as both his fists clenched and his jaw locked.

Immediately, he took one last shot before striding across the room himself.

Meanwhile at the bar, Kelsey slowly sipped on her beverage of choice. But, despite accepting to go out clubbing with friends and dressed to the nines in a little black dress ready for a night out on the town… Kelsey was bored, painfully bored.

Just like José, Kelsey was pretty quick to return to her old habits of getting guys' attention.

Except… it wasn't the same anymore for her either.

Unlike José, she did get to a point of having a one night stand with another guy and… she was just left unimpressed.

Well aside from going back to repressing her 'inner freak' to not scare most guys off, she just wasn't impressed or 'satisfied' after her latest sexual encounter. After having a guy who not only more than knew what he was doing handle her and enjoyed her 'real self' behind closed doors in José.

Kelsey was just left unsatisfied.

In fact tonight she was mostly just tagging along with her friends to drink and flirt with guys into buying her drinks.

Otherwise… Kelsey wasn't into it.

And that point was driven in more when all of a sudden an athletic looking guy a little taller than her with dishwater blonde hair leaned against the bar next to her and started with, "Hey, mind if I buy you a drink?"

Kelsey looked over and shrugged internally.

He was pretty good looking but she just wasn't feeling it. Clearly he was trying to 'butter her up' into possibly getting with him later on after another drink or two… but at the very least she could use him for free drinks before 'excusing herself to the bathroom' and just ditching him with the tab.

Eventually she settled on that plan as she replied shortly, "Sure."

The guy smirked and flagged down the bartender. While the guy was talking to the bartender; however, Kelsey was finishing up her cosmopolitan when she saw a familiar face over the guy's shoulder at the opposite end of the bar just eyeing her intently.

José Burromuerto.

Kelsey almost couldn't stop herself from just returning the eye contact as she herself was now eyeing down José at the other end of the bar as well.

At first she couldn't believe he happened to be at the same club as her and her friends after not seeing him in a month, but decided not to think about it as the two continued to hold their eye contact.

Meanwhile José's whole look just seemed to progress from intense to practically wanting as he kept almost hungrily eyeing Kelsey down.

Even though the only thing he wanted other than Kelsey was to just pick a fight with the guy currently hitting on her more than anything but resisted.

One was because he knew if he did that he'd immediately get kicked out by a bouncer and also take a chance on not getting close to Kelsey in the process, but also due to the fact that the guy hitting on Kelsey was currently distracted in conversation with the bartender anyway to notice.

Meanwhile José and Kelsey kept their eye contact locked, almost as if they were silently communicating and understanding each other and knowing what they both almost desperately wanted at the current moment.

Each other.

Kelsey bit her lip before slowly releasing it as her abdomen got overwhelmed with a burning want as she kept looking at him.

Luckily the guy who was initially showing interest in her was still currently being chatty with the bartender as Kelsey subtly slipped away and made her way over to the other side of the bar to José.

Then just as silently as the two made the 'agreement' of what was definitely going to happen, Kelsey just grabbed José's left arm at the elbow and tugged to give him the hint to follow her back to her place.

Fortunately this club was only a couple short blocks away from her apartment so it was easy to make a convenient get away.

The two just casually walked off, picked up their coats at the club entrance's coat check, and started making their way back to her apartment.

The two barely spoke as they walked to her building, only exchanging knowing and lusting glances at each other periodically, as they walked arm in arm back to her place. It wasn't until they got inside her building and decided to take the elevator up to her floor that both of them started feeling even more anxious about 'holding back'.

Even at the door of Kelsey's apartment as she was unlocking it, José was already pressing himself against her from behind and slowly and teasingly smoothing his hands up and down her sides and eventually couldn't resist to the point of biting down a little on where her shoulder met her neck like he remembered she liked.

Kelsey bit her lip to fight back a gasp as she just frantically opened the door, pulling José in with her, and then closing and locking it right behind them just as quickly to pick up where they left off.

And this was how Kelsey and José officially kind of got together into a dynamic that confuses almost anyone who knows them. Lol. XD Since a lot of you seemed to like this pairing (as do I because of how different of these two are together), I wanted to come up with a realistic scenario that would lead to these two becoming any kind of a 'couple' in any respect. After all, Kelsey is practically the 'gilded girl' incarnate. She may be a pretty and hot little thing on the outside… but she is an emotionally sadistic and despicable garbage fire of a person on the inside with almost zero redeeming qualities to her personality. That and the only times she is ever genuinely 'happy' when she's not getting with guys is when she makes Heather completely miserable out of her own jealousy of Heather's intelligence, talents, and work ethic. Again, no one in Heather's family are 'good people' including Heather herself. But through Kelsey, I wanted to show how she was a critical component in my series to explain why Heather is the person she ended up becoming. Then with José, it's a very similar story. Through this fanfic series and what we got from the show about José is that he's a CRAP human being and an even worse older brother, considering he too is at his happiest when he makes Alejandro miserable. José enjoys nothing more than to flaunt his shallow achievements where he is 'superior' to his little brother and all his prodding and picking at Alejandro is always out of malice and jealousy since even HE knows that everyone prefers Alejandro over him because Alejandro actually is genuinely more likable, charming, and charismatic than him. Anyway, all that aside, as I thought and thought of how I could see this pairing getting into any kind of a consistent relationship of any kind with each other… this chapter was the result. Kelsey was a bit easier since I created her in mind that she has had boyfriends in the past but just favors hook ups like José. Then we get to José who is the stereotypical definition of a womanizing douchebag with very little manners and respect toward women in his usual dealings and never met a girl who satisfied and caught his interest until he encountered Kelsey in their initial of what was supposed to be a 'one night stand'. So, I wanted to display through this chapter that with a short period of time with them not seeing each other and going back to their old ways that eventually they both kind of ended up giving in with the conclusion of 'Okay, we're both terrible and insufferable and everyone else bores me except you so… let's just accept it and be terrible, insufferable dumpster fires together'. Lol. XD In the end rather than choosing to be in a relationship with each other, being in a relationship just kind of chose them instead. At least that was my take and I'd love to know what you thought of my execution with this angle. As always thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read and constructive reviews are always very much appreciated. I'll try to update around Christmas with something too, but we'll see how things go on that front this coming week.

Hope you all are safe, well, and staying classy out there!

Dexter1995