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Rick POV

Rick lies in bed when he hears banging on the wall next door. He rolls his head over to the right as he tries to make out what the banging could be. After a few seconds, he realized that it could be his brother's headboard meaning he has someone over and they seem to be having tons of fun.

"Shane. Shane. Shane. Please, don't stop," The voice of a woman Rick faintly hears. The headboard banging on the wall sped up faster and sounded much harder. Rick blindly reaches for his noise-canceling headphones and his cell phone on his nightstand so he no longer has to suffer.

Having to wake up to this is not something that he wanted to happen. He'd rather wake up to the smell of breakfast. Not the unnecessarily loud sex his older brother is having. He grabs both items and attaches the two together. Hearing more moaning, Rick shudders, places the headphones on his head and plays some rock music. According to his cell phone, it's three in the morning and the fact that his brother is doing this now is annoying. He's surprised that Aiden and Spencer haven't woken up yet. Last time he checked, the two were still in the house after the wild night they've had before. Unless those two assholes left again, to do God knows what, after they've arrived home around midnight. Rick started up the music and started to go fall asleep.

The next morning, and by morning like one in the afternoon, Rick woke to the smell of his mother's famous burgers and fries. So his father's fantastic breakfast has long passed and mom's lunch has started. His parents alternate between the breakfast and lunch times to cook for their family. For Dinner, the family has a cook that makes it on weekday and weekends they go out for dinner. Despite the fact that their eldest children are 30 years old, the Grimes parents have no problems with their children staying at home.

Rick rolls out of the bed and onto the floor with a loud thud. Groaning, he slowing rises to crawl into his personal bathroom. He somehow makes it to the toilet and using it as leverage to stand up. He relieves himself in the toilet as he hears someone knocking on his bedroom door. Confused, he slightly leaned towards the opening of his bathroom door to listen for whoever is at the door.

"Rick, Honey," he hears his mother's voice through the bedroom door. "Are you up?"

"Yes, Ma," Rick leans back and pulls his basketball shorts up after he finished. "I'll be downstairs soon. Just let me wake myself up a little."

"Okay. Just hurry up. You're going a little slow today." Rick hears his mother walking away.

He rolls his eyes as he moves towards the vanity mirror. Rick notices little dark circles under his steely blue eyes, but not enough to be easily noticed by others. He gently rubs his face and the stubble. Since he's too tired, he doesn't feel like shaving it off. Rick prepares for the day by doing his morning routine as quickly as he can.

Once finished, Rick goes downstairs still in his basketball shorts. He hears laughter from his parents and his siblings coming from the dining room. He follows the sound of his family and was welcomed to a warming sight.

"… Then James fell down and his face was so confused as if he didn't know why he was falling," said Aiden. Rick's entire family bursts into fits of laughter. Even Shane was turning red. Everyone was dressed to impress, not a single hair out of place. His mother, Deanna, is seated at the head of the table. Her hair placed in a tight bun. If a regular onlooker were to see, they might think Deanna is stuck up. But that is the opposite. Deanna smiles faintly at her son's joke as she looks around at her children. Reg is on his wife's right side, looking at his children as well. Reg's hair is slicked back with his glasses perched on his face. He chuckles at the joke and sips his green tea. Spencer, Aiden, and Shane laugh so hard that their faces turn red. They're lucky that they're not choking on the food that's in their mouth. Rick's older siblings look dress to impress. Everyone at the table looks like they're having dinner on Martha's Vineyards instead dinner at their home. Rick is the only one who isn't dressed like he's going someplace fancy.

Rick smiles, happy to see his family like this. He doesn't ever want it to change. Rick knows in his heart that he will never away from his family willingly.

"Good afternoon, guys," Rick says as he walks into the room. He sits in the available chair placed next to his mother. Rick is his mother's right-hand man in the operations of the criminal world. Although he is youngest, he is set to take over their crime family instead of his brothers because his elder siblings are a little immature. Shane, Aiden, and Spencer don't even mind that they will be under their younger brother's command because they understand the responsibility that comes with being the boss. They know their brother can handle it and would be willing to help in any way they can for their brother.

"Good afternoon, sleepyhead," said Reg as he looks to his youngest jokingly. "Had a good night sleep?"

"No, I actually didn't." Rick glared at Shane on his left.

Shane looked up at his brother with the French fries he tried to stuff in his mouth too full capacity. "What," Shane tried to look innocent but instead looked like a complete slob. He swallowed the food in his mouth so he can speak more clearly, "did I do?" Rick looked at his brother in disgust.

After he asked that, heels clicked on the floor heading towards the dining room. Silence fell into the room as they listened to the steps. A blonde haired woman came through the archway and headed towards Shane. "Hello everybody," the blonde woman said as she bent down to kiss Shane on the cheek. Aiden and Spencer looked confused but gave congratulating smirks. Reg shook his head and sipped his green tea. Deanna looked disappointed and rolled her eyes as she continued to eat her food.

"Thanks for last night. It was wonderful. Sorry for waking up late, have a good rest of your day," She kissed Shane on his cheek again and simply walked out of the dining room and towards the front door.

The room was quiet until everyone heard the front door closing. "Who was that hot piece of ass," Spencer asked, smirking while looking at Shane.

"Language, Spence. And please answer the question," Deanna stated as she looked towards her middle child. "I thought I said no women—," Spencer and Aiden cleared their throats. "Or men," as she looks towards the twins. She looked back at Shane. "Allowed in this house unless you're marrying them. This is highly unlikely because each of you loves to be promiscuous." Deanna looked at each of her sons and shook her head. "So as I told you guys before. No women allowed unless the relationship is headed towards marriage."

Deanna's children were silent for a few seconds before Spencer and Aiden asked multiple questions about the blonde woman. Shane happily answered and anything Deanna said went in one ear and out the other for her eldest sons. Deanna rolls her eyes and looks to her youngest. "This is why you are my favorite son," she said loud enough for her other children to hear.

The conversation about the blonde woman ceased as a string of protest started from her three children. Rick and his parents laughed as Shane and the twins were arguing and trying to determine who mother's favorite is. Reg looks to his wife and they both shared a smile. They mouth their love for each other and continued eating their lunch. Rick shook his head at his brothers and he still thinks that he doesn't want this to ever change.

Lunch continued with jokes and laughter with the Grimes family. Rick and Deanna talked about the Armory and the new shipments they're going to receive from China. After lunch, the family disperses throughout the house. Deanna and Reg head up to their room for sexy time together. Rick started to make his way up to his room.

"Hey Ricky," Rick hears Aiden say behind him and rolls his eyes.

"I thought I told you not to call me that anymore." Rick stops on the third step on the winding staircase to upstairs.

"Okay Ricky," Aiden smiles. The rest of the Grimes siblings stopped behind Aiden. "We found out there is a party this weekend."

"So? Am I supposed to care?" Rick steps down one step towards his brothers.

"You will. The party is hosted by the Greene family," Spencer said.

"And it is for Annette and Hershel Greene," Shane finished.

Rick said confusedly, "How exactly are we supposed to get in? Everyone knows our faces."

"Guess what the theme is for the party: Masquerade," Aiden said, looking hopeful that his brother will finally be able to leave the house.

"Oooooh. How fun," Rick said sarcastically. "Don't care." Rick continues up the stairs. "Have fun getting kicked out of the party 2 seconds after you enter." He waves back towards his brothers and made it to his room.

The elder siblings looked at each other. "He has to go to the party. He needs to get out more. Instead of constantly working and hanging with Glenn and Daryl." Shane huffed and sat on the first step with his head in his hands. Aiden and Spencer exchanged looks and silence fell among the three siblings. Shane picked his head up and smiled mischievously. Spencer looked confused when he saw the smile that was on Shane's face. Spencer nudges his twin to look at Shane. "What do you have up your sleeve?"

"We can simply kidnap our little brother and his friends. At least if he's with his friends, he'll be less pissed with us," Shane says as he rises from the bottom step and licks his lips. "What do you say?"

"I guess. We just need to make a convincing story on getting him out the house along with his friends to dress up nicely to enter the party and make sure that he doesn't cause a scene in front of the house. Then we will get kicked out just two seconds after entering the party," Aiden stated in a rebuttal.

"Or we drug them. That's way easier instead of providing a convincing story. We do have endless access to drugs."

"Let's just see if we can continue to convince him some more. We can even try to convince his friends to also help with bringing Rick to the great Greene party. We'll revert back to your plan if we need to," Spencer said.

"Alright, fine." Shane huffed and walked up the steps.

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