Micheal gazed bemusedly at Kyle and the girls that still surrounded him. His eyes blinking myopically, given him an expression that would have one first place in a world competition of MR-UNIVERSALLY-CONFUSED-FACIAL-EXPRESSIONS.

That said he was still the first to break the silence that had descended on the room after the brunette had run after some other girl. Well he amended as one of the blondes stifled a giggle; he was the first to break the silence if you didn't count giggles as a sound.

"What the hell?" his voice, husky, mocked the words he had spoken. He had to admit, he didn't mind being jumped on if all the girls had bodies like the brunette.

But looking at Max's set face, decided not to share his views with him.

Gazing covertly at Max's angry face, Michael's mind screamed trouble, and something told him the girl that ad jumped him had at one point something to do with Max. Looking around for something else to focus on, his gaze landed on Kyle busily guzzling his drink, but Micheal could see the red on his ears from where he stood, and knew that Kyle was the guilty one in all this.

Meanwhile, Tess finally got over her giggling, and looked at the guys properly, and drew in a shocked breath.

They were FINE! Muscles, eyes, hair, all just right to emphasis their overall masculinity. There was just something about guys who were that sure of themselves and yet not full of themselves. Tess knew they weren't full of themselves for the simple reason they were standing by a large mirror and neither of them had looked at it yet.

Tess was not so blind that she didn't recognise the guy that Maria had been with the night she had got into the fight.

She clinically ran over his features in her mind, and smiled. He was exactly what Maria needed at this moment in time, a little bit of fun, and with his muscles he was sure to give her some fun, Tess thought enviously.

God, Tess thought, she was getting maudlin. She hadn't had a guy in so long; she thought with a bit of humour, she might have even forgotten what to do when she got one!

Looking at Kyle's back, Tess thought, god, he's starting to look good now.

They hadn't really been making the most innocent of impressions on any of the guys so far; Tess thought derisively, why should she let their opinions bother her?

Jumping down from the counter, she knocked the bottle of drink from Kyle's hand and grabbing his shirtfront pulled him down so she had better access to his mouth.

She kissed him with all the pent up passion that had been building since the last time she had kissed someone. She kissed with the desperation of someone who if they didn't remember what to do was going to have no complaints about anything else.

Kissing the corner of his mouth, she settled her mouth more firmly on his and felt his arms suddenly go around her and lift her up. She knew as he began to plunder her mouth that she had lost control of the situation, but damn she thought, the guy could kiss and you didn't hear her complaining.

Wrapping her arms around his neck, for balance, she felt his large calloused hands rub against her back in lazy circles, and found she didn't mind him as much as she had originally thought.

Isabel's jaw had hit the floor as Tess had all but jumped Kyle, and after countless coughs to try and get her attention, Isabel gave up. They'd have to come up for air sometime, but watching them go at it, Isabel wasn't so sure that it would be anytime soon.

Closing her mouth with a snap, she turned to the guys and they too had the jaw-dropping look on their faces.

Isabel smiled mockingly, not the best of situations to introduce yourself but that couldn't be helped since her sisters had all but abandoned her.

Walking across the room, she held out her hand to Micheal. "I'm Isabel. Its nice to meet you!"

Micheal shook her hand in shock, his attention still focused on the spectacle in the kitchen. As her hand was enclosed in his larger one, he focused on her and furrowed his eyebrows as something about her called to him. He knew her from somewhere, but he didn't know where….

"Liz was the one who attacked you, the blonde with your friend is Tess and the girl that disappeared just as you came in was Maria!"

His voice harsher then he meant it to be "You were at the club last night?"

Her voice questioning, Isabel answered "Well yeah, but why?…Oh" Isabel now realised who this had to be. Maria really has the best taste she thought to herself.

Looking at him, Isabel knew he was the kind of guy that would always offer you his protection once you were his friend, the kind of guy they had all been looking for since…. Isabel put a halt to those thoughts, now was not the time to become depressed, or start to cry, she told herself, as she felt the heaviness of her eyes as they quickly filled with liquid.

Praying for a distraction, Isabel smiled in relief when the door opened again to admit Liz and Maria. Looking over her shoulder, she smiled in relief when she saw no bruises, cuts or torn clothes. In fact they were smiling.

There was something about those smiles that Isabel found scary.

But she had to laugh as they focused on the couple in the kitchen, jaws dropping in almost comic effect.

Winking at them, she once again turned to the guys but the guy's jaws had dropped in almost comic effect for a totally different reason.

Raising a hand towards each of the girls, they uttered one word loudly almost demanding an answer for something "You!" echoed through the apartment.

Isabel watched in amusement as both Liz and Maria nodded.

Isabel noticed that Maria turned to Liz, as if asking her permission for something, and Liz nodding almost unnoticeable by anyone but her sisters.

Isabel stepped back from the guys not wanting to be caught in the middle.

Maria smiled, and turning to the guys ran at them, Maria could see that her guy was preparing to catch her, but it wasn't him she wanted at that moment, but as she passed him she changed her mind. Stopping abruptly at him, she grabbed his head and brought it down so she could kiss him, before breaking apart from him, in her opinion to soon but it had to be done, and knocking Max to the ground. Grabbing his cheeks, she held him in place, and comically puckered up and kissed him lightly, almost friend like kiss on his lips.

Turning to Micheal, she once again grabbed him, but this time he was ready and grabbing her arm, his voice angry demanded, "Just what the hell is going on?"

Shrugging her shoulders indifferently, Maria answered "A dare!" and that was all she was going to say she thought mutinously.

But for Micheal it was enough. He had no doubt Kyle was behind the dare, but Kyle was busy at the moment.

"Okay" he answered and then proceeded to pull her into his arms.

But this time she stopped him, looking into his eyes she asked mischief in her eyes "Before we go there again, can I get a name?"

He smiled, and Maria could feel her legs about to fold underneath her, he had the sexiest smile she thought, and just as his mouth was about to close over hers, he whispered "Micheal" into her mouth.

Just as the kiss was getting interesting, an insistent vibrating in the back of her pocket, made her break away.

Pulling the phone from her pocket angrily, she pushed it to her ear after flipping it open.

After listening for a few minutes she closed it less angrily.

Pushing a piece of hair behind her ear, she placed fingers in her mouth and blew a loud sharp whistle that made those who weren't expecting it jump.

Since Kyle wasn't expecting it, he jumped back from Tess and for Maria it got the desired result.

Tess twisted to the whistles direction and grimaced, that look could only mean one thing.

Grabbing her bag from the ground, Tess made towards Maria not even looking back to see if Kyle was behind her.

"Where's the job?" she demanded.

Grabbing their bags from the ground, Maria slowly answered not wanting to let the guys know about their other working habits.

"Dino is in town. He wants our help!"

Liz and Isabel nodded their agreement but Tess was less inclined to do so.

"But, Maria, the guy like….pervs on me!"

Maria laughed softly, "Yeah I know, but he's not going to be there. He has an appointment later on and needs to prepare for it. Besides his people know if he's there we don't work with him since the last incident."

Tess nodded gratefully.

Maria looked to Kyle, "Sorry, sweetie but we got a job. We still on for tomorrow?"

Kyle nodded slightly dazed, and watched as they left.

Max and Micheal watched as they left, and as they closed the door behind them, the second exit behind the kitchen opened and admitted Alex.

Alex took one look at the three guys and broke into a grin. Smiling, he asked them what had happened, but when no one answered him, he changed his tone of voice and finally broke through to the guys when he loudly demanded, "Just what the hell happened here?" Unknowingly echoing someone's earlier question.

As max filled him in, Alex grunted in annoyance. He had missed the babe.

Kyle knew the exact moment they figured out that he was seeing the girls the next day. They converged on him with a single united purposeful expression on their faces that scared him more then if they had actually come towards him cursing demanding to know where he was going.

Ten minutes later as Kyle huddled outside in a corner in only his jocks, locked outside on the balcony, he once again reminded himself why he never dared his brothers. They were a lot more malicious then he.

At that precise moment, the sky's opened up and let out an almighty rumble.

Kyle took one look at the sky and as the heavens opened up to let a mixture of hail stones and rain fall, roared to the sky's "Shit!"

They definitely were a lot more precise in their punishment.

Tess pushed herself out from under the car and whipping her hands in a rag beside her, gestured to Isabel turn the ignition on. With an almighty growl, the engine roared to life, and jumping from the ground, she high fived Liz. They had part of their job finished.

Maria smiled. Turning the ignition off, she went underneath the back of the car, adding the customised exhaust.

Tightening the last screw she was pushing herself out from underneath the car, when she heard a wolf whistle coming from the door way.

Banging her head against the underside of the car, Maria cursed underneath her breath. Please don't let this go down the way I think it will, she thought, irony coursing through her thought stream. Of course it was going to happen the way she thought it would, why wouldn't it, she thought sarcastically to herself.

Pushing herself up from the ground, she watched as Dino tried it on with Tess again. Shaking her head at the site she smiled wiry, Why didn't guy's ever get the hint?

Coming to stand behind her, she offered her silent support.

None of them saw it coming. As Dino grabbed for Tess, she sidestepped him, and twirled to get away from him. Dino swung after her with a surprised omp, putting his other arm out to balance himself.

Unfortunately there was somebody standing in the way of the arm, and slamming straight into Maria's face, they could all see the bruise it would leave as she fell to the floor in shocked momentum.

Liz grabbed Dino's arm and using moves that she had learned in Judo, swung him over on her hip, and put him in a strangle hold.

Holding onto his head, she started to speak, and Dino shrunk at the coldness of it.

"Grab your gear, tidy up and Isabel?"

"Yeah?"

"Take the car." Talking to Dino she spoke clearly and precisely so he would be under no illusions as to what she meant "You will get the car back when we see the money, not before. We don't want to see you after this. Ever. And if we do I can guarantee that you will not be going away with all your body parts! Comprende?"

She didn't wait for his answer, releasing him with a contemptive sneer.

Walking out of the garage, Isabel drove out after her.

When he heard the two engines roar away from the building with a squeal, he finally breathed only then realising that they had taken his car, the same car he was racing tonight for the last time, the same car he had sold to Gino Deralli, the drug lord.

He could feel the fear start to come back, He was in so much shit…

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