!ALYSSA'S POV!

We finished swimming and we all went in to shower. Luckily, we had the house to ourselves! Charlie had just started college, Lorraine, Kim, Jessica, and Mike were spending the night at friends houses and Mr. and Mrs. Baker took Henry, Kyle, Nigel, and Mark to a banquet but since it was about an hour or so away, they decided to spend the night in a hotel near there. When I got out of the shower we all went into Jake's room to hang out for a while.
Just then the phone rang, Sarah ran to grab it and I sat down between Jake and Audrey. When she came back she gave the phone to Jake and I saw he got pissed off, and he just hung up on whoever had called. But I thought nothing of it and we went down to watch a movie.

!AUDREY'S POV!

After a few hours of swimming we finally decided to go in. We had the whole house to ourselves. Everyone was out! Which I thought it was quite odd that their parents would trust a few teenagers to be alone. Anyways, we went to Jake's room to hang out. After about an hour, the phone rang. Sarah went and got it and came back. She gave it to Jake, who just hung up on the poor person. I had snuck a peek at the caller I.D. It was Kevin. Jake must be really mad at him... I am too!

!JAKE'S POV!

The phone rang. Sarah got up and ran over to get it. She came back and handed the phone to me. I heard Kevin's voice yelling out of the receiver. I didn't want to talk to him. I could feel my face turning red and I hung up. I looked to my left only to see a very confused Alyssa and Audrey; I just smiled sheepishly and suggested we go down to the living room to watch a movie. Everyone agreed on watching Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl, which happened to be Alyssa's favorite movie. Sarah popped in the DVD and then jumped on the recliner. About thirty minutes through Audrey fell asleep on the floor, Alyssa and Sarah were busy reciting all of Johnny Depp's lines and squealing with delight every time Orlando came on the screen, and me? Well my eyes hurt from rolling them so much at the obsessed twosome. After a while Sarah had fallen asleep too, that just left Alyssa and I on the couch. Alone. Together. At first it was a little weird, I mean being alone in the room with my long time crush. Soon after the movie ended, Alyssa suggested we put in another movie, I agreed as long as Orlando and Johnny weren't in it! I ended up picking a vampire movie, I picked this intentionally because I know Alyssa was really scared of vampires and I wanted her to be scared so I would have to be there to comfort her. Immediately after the first vampire came on the screen she jumped like a foot in the air and slowly started scooting over to the arm of the couch. She was drawn into the movie and linked her arm through mine so she could block the TV with my shoulder. When she realized what she was doing, she let go and muttered an apology. I just smiled and told her I didn't mind. Grinning like an idiot, I headed for the kitchen to get a drink and when I came back she was spread out on our huge couch asleep. She looked like an angel sleeping, I just smiled and lay down next to her and slowly drifted to sleep.

!ALYSSA'S POV!

I woke up to the snickers of Sarah and Audrey, confused about what they were laughing at I opened my eyes and looked around, Sarah and Audrey were sitting on the floor laughing hysterically. I sat up so I could talk to them, but right when I looked, I saw Jake. Asleep. RIGHT NEXT TO ME! I realized he had had his arm around me and I was snuggled up to him with my arm on his (bare) chest. I have to admit it didn't feel half bad. In fact, I kind of enjoyed it. Whoa! Did I just say I liked being in Jake's arms?! This cannot be happening! I can't like my best friend's brother! I just can't! It's practically a rule. Maybe I was just tired and needed a little more sleep. Yeah, that's it. So I took my place on the couch again and fell asleep again. I didn't wake up again until it was past noon. To tell you the truth, I didn't want to wake up. I mean, it's going to be hard for me to admit it... but I guess... I like Jake. OK I admitted it. I mean, he's the sweetest guy I have ever met, he cares about me (at least in a sisterly way), and he is way hott! "Alyssa! Snap out of it!" I told myself. Here I was sitting on the couch alone (Jake had gone in the kitchen with Sarah) and thinking rather disturbing thoughts about how much I liked Jake. I walked silently towards the kitchen but stopped when I heard Jake and Sarah arguing. " OMG Jake, you should have seen yourself when you were sleeping next to Alyssa! You were smiling from ear to ear!", Sarah said in between giggles. Jake's face turned bright red and told Sarah to " Shut up before i shove your lacrosse stick down your throat!" I kept myself from laughing. " Oh come on Jake you know you loved it considering you practically drool over Alyssa every time you see her! Especially when she came out in her bikini yesterday! Haha", Sarah told him. If it was possible Jake's face turned an even a brighter shade of red and his fists were clenched. " I do NOT like Alyssa in that way!" " That is the biggest lie I have ever heard! I can see right through you Jacob Baker! And if you lie about it again I will tell Alyssa myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if she already knows from the drool that hangs out of your mouth every time you set eyes on her!" "Fine! I admit it! I like Alyssa! Ok? Are you happy? Sheesh! Now will you get off my back about it!?" Jake heaved a sigh of relief and I was just standing there unnoticed with my eyes wide open and my mouth hanging there. Jake felt the same way I did! Feeling as though I was on a cloud I walked in the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. Jake's eyes got wide and he asked me how much I heard. " What? Oh, I didn't hear anything." I lied. Jake let out a sigh and went upstairs to change.

!SARAH'S POV!

I woke up to the sun shining brightly, I found myself in the recliner and Audrey was just now waking up too. I asked her where Jake and Alyssa were and she simply pointed the couch and headed for the kitchen. I walked over to the couch and my mouth dropped. There was Jake and Alyssa, on the couch. Together. Asleep. I couldn't believe it! He had his arm around her shoulders and she had her arm across his bare chest. Just then Audrey walked back in and raised her eyebrows. We then collapsed on the floor in fits of giggles. Way to go lil' bro! Way to seduce my best friend! Audrey and I could not stop laughing! Alyssa then sat up and saw their position, sighed and went back to sleep. Around noon I was dressed in a lacrosse T-shirt and basketball shorts, my hair done in pigtails. All of a sudden Jake walked in the kitchen in his pajamas (if you can even call them that! more like boxers) with ruffled hair. I then got into an argument with him and got the fact that he liked Alyssa, out of him. Just then Alyssa walked in and as soon as Jake was sure she didn't hear any of our conversation, he went upstairs to change. Alyssa followed Jake upstairs and five minutes later they both came down dressed. Jake had on jeans, a skateboarding t-shirt, and vans. He actually looked pretty decent! His hair was actually combed Alyssa had on rather short jean shorts and a blue tank top, along with her etnies. Her blonde hair was straight and she didn't have any make-up on. She looked really good! Audrey just threw on some jean capris and a polo and we walked to the movies. I had a perfect plan! We got there a little late, most of the seats were taken but I insisted that I wanted to sit on the back row, where there were only 2 seats. Audrey said she wanted to sit in the back too, which forced Alyssa and Jake to sit further down. I then bought everyone food. We got two popcorns and I claimed I only had enough money for 3 drinks so Alyssa and Jake shared a drink. With all of our grub, we headed into the theatre and my plan went into action! It was perfect! Jake and Alyssa sat so that Audrey and I could see them perfectly. They kept grabbing popcorn at the same time and sipping the drink. They also kept looking at each other and I could so tell Alyssa was crushing on my baby bro! OK so he was only less then a year younger so he really wasn't my baby bro, oh well! When the movie was over we walked back to my house just to hang out. I talked all three of them into playing Dare since Kevin wasn't there. They all agreed after 5 minutes of convincing. It was my turn so I turned to Jake and gave him his dare. "Jake I dare you to make-out with Alyssa right now in front of Audrey and I. That way we can make sure you actually do it!" I said knowing they would both be ecstatic even if they didn't show it. Both Jake and Alyssa's eyes got wide and their mouths opened and Jake glared at me. I knew he would thank me when Alyssa left though. After minutes of delay, the stood up and started to move closer to each other, slowly but surely, and then their lips met. Slowly Jake's hands worked their way up to her waist and her arms wrapped around his neck. And they stood there kissing passionately; in fact they didn't even hear me when I told them they could stop. I knew they liked it. Finally I pulled Alyssa off and we both fell on the floor with a boom and Jake helped Alyssa up smiling and they sat next to each other on the floor. When we finished the game, Alyssa and Audrey headed home for the evening.

!KEVIN'S POV!

I was really bored, I mean it was Saturday afternoon and I had absolutely nothing to do, I think Jake and I were in a fight, I called him last night and yelled at him, needless to say, he hung up on me. I decided to go over to the Baker's house to apologize to Jake and on my way over there I saw Alyssa and Audrey walk out and head home. Hmmm I wonder what they were doing there!? I felt a pang of jealousy because I knew Jake had a huge crush on Alyssa too and I see her...walking out of his house! "What r u jabbering about?" I asked myself. Alyssa's best friend is Jake's sister of course she is going to be over there! But I didn't quite convince myself. Apparently none of the other Bakers were at the house because there wasn't a car in the driveway. I figured that would be better anyway. I walked up to their house and Sarah answered the door and told me to come in, she said Jake was in the shower but would be out in a little while. I asked her, just to be sure, what Alyssa and Audrey were doing here and she told me everything...from Alyssa falling asleep with Jake, to the movies where they sat alone, to the part where they made out and obviously didn't want it to end. I was steaming mad! Jake picked that moment to walk downstairs with a huge grin on his face, I knew he liked Alyssa but I liked her more...didn't I? I don't know but he shouldn't have done what he did! I felt betrayed, and hurt! When Jake reached the bottom of the stairs I had my fists clenched and I blurted out my question," Sarah told everything, about how u made out with Alyssa and how you slept right next to her and how you sat with her alone at the movies! How could you? You know I like her and you try to steal her from me?! I thought u were my best friend! But apparently not!" " Dude, get a hold of yourself! You knew I liked Alyssa! Falling asleep on the couch with her was pure accident, sitting in the movie theatre with her alone was set up, and making out with her was a dare! And I could never steal her from you because you never had her to begin with! I mean Sarah told me she thinks Alyssa likes me so why don't you go find someone else to crush on! Because unless Sarah is wrong, Alyssa is taken!" So much for apologizing! I wanted to kill Jake! All of a sudden the doorbell rang and Jake answered it, I took a peek and it was Alyssa, she had forgotten her jacket. Jake smiled and ran up to get her jacket for her. I found this the perfect opportunity to talk to her. I walked up to the door and said "Hey Alyssa what's up? How was your day?" I asked putting on my biggest smile. " Oh my day was awesome! I had such a great time!" she said winking at her twin, Audrey and Jake who had come back with her jacket. Jake blushed and my smile faded. She liked Jake, I thought, Jake was going to pay for this! THIS... MEANS...WAR!

!JAKE'S POV!

I had just got out of the shower still grinning from ear to ear from that kiss. It was by far the best moment in my life. As soon as our lips met I swear I felt a little electric shock. I kept on daydreaming until I got down the stairs and saw Kevin standing there. Before I could say anything, he started yelling at me, telling me he knew all about the kiss, what happened on the couch, and the movies. He asked me how I had the nerve to steal her! So I just screamed what was on my mind before I had time to think. "Dude get a hold of yourself! You knew I liked Alyssa! Falling asleep on the couch with her was pure accident, sitting in the movie theatre alone with her was set up and making out with her was a dare! And I could never steal her from you because you never had her to begin with! I mean Sarah told me that she thought Alyssa likes me, so why don't you find someone else to crush on because unless Sarah is wrong, Alyssa is taken!" I shouted! Just then none other then Alyssa herself rang the doorbell so I answered it. She had forgotten her jacket so I ran upstairs to go get it for her, but not without flashing her a smile first. I came back just in time to hear her tell Kevin she had a great day and had a lot of fun. Then she winked at me and my heart did a flip. I really really liked this girl but had a slim chance with her considering our labels. Gosh I really hate labels. When I snapped out of my daze I found Alyssa leaving so I told her I would see her later and tried to go upstairs, but before I could, Kevin pulled my shirt back so I was standing right in front of him and he gave me a glare. Two words came to mind...UH-OH! I could tell this wasn't going to be good!

!AUDREY'S POV!

So many things were happening. First Jake and Alyssa fell asleep on the couch together, then they sat together at the movies, and then they made out. This was all happening too fast. Am I just a reject or something? I mean the falling asleep thing was ok, just an accident... or was it? And the movies thing, all Sarah's idea. But the making out thing... for me, that was just too far. I am the kind of person not to voice my mind on what I think. I keep my opinions to myself. And I just wanted to tell them to stop! I mean, I KNOW they like each other, but I was there. And Sarah probably didn't care because... well... because she's Sarah and she doesn't care that much about boys. I, though, felt... rejected. I was getting upset from all these things. I mean it was certainly OK for Jake to like her and all, but Kevin can't like her! He just can't! But he does... When we got home all Alyssa talked about was Jake. I didn't say anything I just nodded my head and said yes.

But on the inside I just wanted to kill her. Wait! Why kill her... she has so much life to live and so many guys to handle... and I don't want to kill Alyssa! She's the only one that's been there for me since birth. She's my only true friend and I love her. So I think I should just kill myself. No. I won't kill myself. But I have to do something... anything...