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(Jace Beleren)

"Trust me, none of us wanted to be there, either, sweetheart. I entertained moving in with my dad but I'm sure as hell glad that I didn't."

"And why is that, papi?" Liliana nuzzles my neck. Gooseflesh erupts on my arms like it always does. I push my glasses back up my nose.

"Aren't we supposed to be showing this to our parents?"

"They know we're fucking, that we're together, this is more about how we got there, anyways."

"Right, well I guess I should tell them about the night we started noticing each other. That seems like a good place to start."


It was the first weekend that Mom and the General let us have friends over. Approximately two weeks had passed between our first encounter in the bathroom. Her voice wouldn't leave me head, but I figured it was nothing and I just went about my business. Of course I thought she was beautiful, the most beautiful person I've ever seen, but I pushed it out of my head because of the situation we were in. However, I couldn't help myself. My eyes began to wander because a certain Brazilian didn't know how to keep the adjoining door shut. She was always in some sort of shorts and a tank top, sometimes ballet outfits.

She was tidying up her room because we were going to have a lot of people over tonight. My best friends, Tibalt and Lavinia, Josu's best friend Sorin, and Josu's girlfriend and Lili's best friend, Kaalia, another one of Lili's friends named Drana, who as it turns out was a girl that I had a one night stand with; which is another story for another day. The twin's friends, Thalia and Trostani were coming over too. The house was packed. She walked into the bathroom and started pulling a brush through her hair.

"You're beautiful, you know."

"Thank you, but you don't have to flatter me."

"Just take the compliment, honestly."

"Well, you have nice eyes."

"Thanks."

I went to brush my hand across her face but chickened out at the last second. However, on purpose or not, I don't know, she bends to grab her flatiron, and that's when I knew I could never look at this girl as my sister. There was no "not looking." You couldn't miss it. Her ass was complete perfection. When they said that Brazilian's had the booty, they weren't lying. Her underwear were black lace and every fiber of my body wanted to rip them off of her. Which wasn't normal for me. Usually, I'm able to control my eyes, but in this moment, I couldn't. The intense feeling of longing and need and then a one of possession wasn't normal at all for me. It's like a beast awoke in my chest, roaring to life at the sight in front of me.. The gears in my mind started to turn. She's not your sister. Make damn sure she knows it.

She must have been able to feel my eyes on her. She couldn't know what's going on in my mind, at least not yet.

"Can I help you with something?" Her voice is sharp and biting.

"Nice panties, Lili."

"My goddamned name is Liliana. And I thought you were my 'brother.'" The last word is dripping with sarcasm.

"I think we both know that's not how the dice are rolling right now, get real."

"You're a cocky bastard, you know that, right?"

"And I think you fucking like it. Your breath is uneven and your heart is probably pounding out of your chest. Your left hand is trembling. Am I turning you on? Or do you act like this around Josu too?"

"I don't think that's the how the dice are rolling right now, get real. And tell me, Beleren. Am I turning you on? Because I don't recall that bulge being there a few minutes ago, or is that just normally how you react to a girl that's hopelessly out of your league?"

"Oh, Lili. You may be hopelessly out of my league but I've seen your eyes wander just like mine. I can stretch out that tight little hole of yours until you're screaming, and I'll make sure you know damn well who daddy is."

"A little forward, aren't we, daddy. You wish I was that easy. If you want it, then you're going to work for it."

"You'll be begging for it, I promise."

"That's cute. I don't beg for anything. Should I go tell your mother you're coming on to me?"

"Why do that, when you could just be coming?"

"You talk a big game for a man who has a Green Lantern poster pinned above his bed," she started.

"And you're quite good at pretending you don't want it, because that's the fourth time you've looked at my bulge."

My phone starts ringing, breaking the palpable tension in the room. She starts to flatiron her hair as I talk to Tibalt, he's outside and I need to go let him in. Liliana's phone dings, probably with a similar sentiment.

"Jace?"

"Yeah? I mean it. Your eyes are one thing but you won't touch without earning it."

"You pretend like you don't want it, you and I both know it."

"I want it. I'm just not supposed to, neither are you."


Twenty five minutes later, I'm piled in the living room with my two best friends as Lili decends the stairs. TIbalt lets out a low whistle.

"Back the fuck up."

She walks over to the door and opens it, letting in the redhead that I saw on Josu's phone and her blonde brother.

"LILI BELLE! DID YOU MISS ME?"

The blonde laughs and picks Liliana up and spins her around a circle, kissing her on the cheek. She didn't mention a boyfriend and she certainly didn't act like she had one.

"Put me down, Sorin, you know how I hate that."

Josu hear the commotion and heads downstairs, pulling the redhead close to his chest. It's obvious they love each other and that they hate being apart. I wonder what made him move here with them when he could have stayed.

Liliana comes and sits on the couch next to me, brushing my leg with hers as she does. At first I thought it was innocent and a complete accident, but I saw the wicked look in her eye. She wants to play hardball with me. Fine. The twins and their friends dribble in. There are fourteen people crammed into one room when the parents come in, smile at the scene before them.

"It's great you all are getting along. Let us know if you need anything!"

Liliana walks over to the piano and gives the blonde, Sorin, a pointed look. Josu and Kaalia look at each other as if they know what's about to happen, and relax as if they are expecting some sort of show.

Liliana plays the piano well, I think. I'll compliment her on it later. Music, dance, all the things I'm not good at. She and Sorin sing together often. They're too comfortable not to. Sorin's voice is like liquid gold, it's smooth and soothing.

"Now and then, I think of when we were together..."

He brushes his hand across her face and she smiles. I don't think they're together but I think they've perfected this act. Which makes me think, was she acting earlier? I don't think so. Her hand trembling was the giveaway. She was fighting against it but it was winning. I was winning.

"I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know…"

The song winds down and I follow Sorin's eyes. There not on Lili where I would assume they would be, or on the piano where they should be. His eyes are on my sister. My sixteen year old sister. He's got to be Josu's age or older. What the hell is wrong with the guy? Avy and Emmara have always attracted attention of males but they're usually crumbsnatchers like they are. He flashes this smile at her and Avacyn's face goes from her usual pale cream to ruby red. I don't trust him. He's going to tell her something to get into her pants and then I'll have to fucking murder him. After the song, Liliana heads upstairs after she and Sorin share a consiratorial look. Everyone is absorbed in their own thing as I head over to talk to the blonde, his features so sharp that you could cut a diamond on his jawline.

"So are you and Liliana together, Sorin?"

"No. Everyone thinks that," he says with a laugh. "No, she's my Lili Belle but we're just friends and that's all we'll ever be. Why does it matter? Besides, we can't keep it all in the family, if we were together, how awkward would that be for Osu and Kaalia? You seem interested, almost too interested."

"I saw you looking at my sister."

"She's beautiful. I'd love to get to know her."

"She's sixteen. She just turned sixteen two weeks ago. How old are you exactly?"

"I'll be twenty-one in a month. I'm older than Josu and Liliana. You could say they were like my younger siblings too, Beleren. And I'm not stupid. I saw you looking. I saw the way your eyes raked over her body when got up. Liliana is beautiful and damn good at it, too. But I will make you a promise, she's not going to be a notch on your belt or you and I will have a problem."

"The thought doesn't disgust you, then?"

"Why would it? Liliana and I have had a lot of sex and we actually grew up together. But I will give you a piece of advice."

"And what's that, Sorin?"

"If you fuck her and then fuck her over, Josu has a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and will make you wish you were dead- and I'll make sure he doesn't get caught. And you think that Kaalia is a sweetheart, I'm sure. Josu does that to her. But she's a bitch, especially when it comes to her Vess babies. And Rafael, I don't know if you know, isn't the greatest person or the easiest to get along with. And he doesn't like that Liliana is what she is -a Brazilian bombshell- and doesn't like her having male attention. I can only imagine it would be worse for him to know that his daughter has attracted the attention of someone who is supposed to be his 'son,' you know. "

"My spot for father is already been taken, plus I don't see us seeing eye to eye on anything, and I think he favors Matias, honestly. But that's just what I've gathered in the past two weeks."

"You don't know the half of it, pretty boy. But Jace?"

"Yeah?"

"I know that look. I've been on the receiving end of it. She likes you. But don't fuck around with her. Excuse me. "

He walks over to Avy, who is showing Thalia something on her phone. He smiles at her again and I have to turn my head, because as long he keeps in his pants, I can't say anything. I guess his advice is solid. He does know her. And I believe what he says about Josu. I wouldn't want to cross the man's path the wrong way. He's so angry all of the time. I wonder what could have possibly made him that way.

The night passes, Liliana playing and Sorin singing, Avy growing more and more smitten by the hour. Drana being her usual party all night self, but settling into a conversation with Thalia and Emmara before the end of the night. Josu and Kaalia weren't a foot away from each other the whole night, absorbed in each other.

People start falling asleep one by one. At the end of the night, I decide to talk to her as we are ascending the stairs to our rooms.

"So what did you ask Sorin about me, Beleren?"

"What makes you so sure I did?"

"Because I'm not stupid."

"You flatter yourself. I was telling him about keeping his eyes off of my sister," she cuts me off.

"She'd be lucky to have him. It doesn't get much better than him," I cut her off as she did me.

"In what way?" She gives me a look and begins to speak, but I don't let her. "I'm joking.. You four care about each other. But, I'm just looking out for her, she's still just a kid."

"I understand that. But he is genuinely good. A little mischievous, sure, but he is good."

"Maybe something will culminate. Maybe it won't."

"I thought that a lot tonight, because I couldn't keep my damned eyes off of you." She claps one hand over her mouth, knowing that she's said too much.

The monster that was born earlier rises and sniffs the air hopefully, a roar in his chest. Pride, almost arrogance, takes over my senses. I wasn't wrong in thinking that she was aroused earlier.

"And did you see something you liked?"

"Yes, I did, as a matter of fact. But so did you, because those blue eyes were almost insatiable tonight. But I can't say I minded being the fodder. I've never felt a gaze that powerful, a pull like that. But you and I both know this isn't as easy as it could be. I'm not an easily kept secret, Jace, especially for someone like you. And I don't know if I could keep you one for very long."

She places a shaky hand on my chest, tracing my collarbones and down the line of my pectorals, causing a groan of longing to rise in my chest.

"You're so infuriatingly attractive, and you're such a tease. We shouldn't be doing this."

"But you and I both know that, it doesn't seem to be stopping very much." I stop. She puts pressure on my neck and steps in closer, her alluring figure and her delicious scent no more than a breath away. One question. I speak again.

"Right now it's a touch and a tease, but who're either one of us to say that it won't spiral, and I can't say I wouldn't let it."

"We'll see where it goes, but don't expect it to be easy, and I'll probably infuriate you, I tend to have that effect on people. Right now, it's just a thought and that's where it needs it stay, but a beautiful thought you are, sir. A beautiful thought you are."