"That's unacceptable Kane!"

"I literally left for barely two hours—!"

"Can you stop talking back to me?" Kane's lips sealed when his mother slammed her palm against the table, and he finally exited the bedroom to confront her directly. "I never allowed you to take my car like that, ever."

Kane shrugged his shoulders, "I have to go meet someone last night—"

"Who?!"

"Don't worry about it!"

Tessa was fuming, having heard the front door last night and seen Kane enter the home back at three a.m. in the morning. It was a miracle he was awake at the moment, his swollen eyes coated with fatigue; the only reason he had woken up in time was because his mother started shouting across the home the minute she woke up.

Tessa gripped her purse, glaring towards Kane before she hissed, "You're grounded. You're not going anywhere for two weeks—"

"Two weeks?!" Kane exclaimed as he followed her towards the front door, "That's unfair!"

"Then tell me who you went with and I'll make it one week."

"No!"

"Your choice," she shrugged her shoulders before slamming the door behind her.

Ally finally peeked from the corridor, eyeing Kane as he cursed under his breath and headed back to their bedroom. He met her gaze, furrowing his brows, "You were supposed to cover for me?"

"I was sleeping."

"That's not covering for me."

"Whatever," Ally sat on his bed, watching him reach for a plain sweater and throwing it over his head, hiding his bed had with his hood. He was not in any mood to get completely ready, and threw on a random pair of sweats he found on the floor, "How was the sex?"

He chuckled when he heard that, "I can't go hang out with a girl without having sex with her?"

"Not at midnight, no."

He tightened the waist of his sweats before shoving his feet through his slides, "Well we didn't have sex, so you're wrong." He threw his backpack over his shoulder, and faced Ally. "Ready?"

"You're not ready," she said, reaching for spray deodorant and asking him to raise his arms. When he did, she reached inside his sweater and sprayed his armpits. Then she said, "Open your mouth." He obeyed, and she threw a piece of mint gum on his tongue, and then shoved a piece of mint inside his pocket, "Morning breath stinks. Now you're ready."

When they were in the car, Ally driving towards the school, she glanced towards Kane who was lost in his own world, eyeing the trees as if they were the most interesting green he had ever seen. She raised an eyebrow, "What's going on?"

"Nothing..."

"What happened Kane? Come on, you seem bothered. Tell me what's on your mind."

Kane sighed, his fingers squeezing on his sweats, "You know how I told you I went to meet up Jay's girl?" When she nodded her head, Kane scratched the side of his face, "We didn't do anything, but I made out with her at Jasper's party."

Ally's eyes widened, "Kane! That's Jay's girl!"

"We were flirting back and forth, and she was saying stuff like she should've chosen me over him."

Her teeth gritted, "That bitch. You can't play into that, Jay's your friend."

"Yesterday we literally just went to some hill and went swimming—I told her I couldn't do that behind Jay's back."

"I'm glad—"

"But what if I did to prove to Jay that she isn't good for him?"

Ally tilted her head, "Why are you getting yourself in so much trouble just to protect Jay?"

Kane leaned towards her, "She's not good for him though."Ally glanced towards Kane, eyeing the bags under his eyes, seeing the determination in his navy gaze, before returning her eyes onto the road. There was something on her mind, and Kane knew what it was, "I'm not, Ally."

She shrugged her shoulders, "You seem way too interested in him."

"He's a good guy, that's all. I'm not gay."

"You're bi," Ally said with certainty, "I can read it all over your face." Kane was seconds from denying it, but the lies were left on the tip of his tongue when Ally added, "I'm not going to tell anybody Kane. I've known ever since you first got here."

Kane sighed, leaning back onto his seat, "But I don't like him like that, Ally. I just feel like I just...have to make sure he's okay all the time."

Ally smiled, she finally felt as if Kane was opening up to her as siblings. "Does Tessa know?"

"No, I don't think it would bother her though. I just," he leaned his forehead against the window, "not ready to tell her yet."

"How many guys have you fucked?"

"I knew that's all you wanted to know," he laughed, glancing towards her and seeing her white teeth sparkling as she smiled. "Only four," but the only one he remembered at that instant was Jasper's ginger curls rubbing against the sheets as he tilted his head backwards, his emerald green eyes rolling at the back of his head as he begged for more.

He could almost feel Jasper's nails peeling his skin, and he remembered tearing Jasper's hand from his waist and pining them beside his head, leaning forward to feel his breath linger on his swollen lips before connecting them again for a lustful aggressive deep sensitive kiss.

He quickly shook his head, calming his nerves before it was too late. Then Ally asked, "Are you bottom or top?"

Kane snorted, "I'm top, of course."

"Oh," her eyebrows raised in surprise, "I really thought you were bottom."

"Shut up Ally."