sofia's pov +

as i scrolled through my phone after staying the night at kenzie's, the bedroom door opened with a shirtless jack walking in.

knowing that his sister was still asleep beside me, he opened kenzie's packet of malboros and placed one behind his ear. i scoffed at his actions and climbed out of the bed.

"last time i checked, you're not allowed to just barge in here without knocking" i ran my hands through my messy hair.

jack glanced behind him before pointing to himself, "oh, so you can speak to me".

i rolled my eyes with a small glare.

"i thought you were loosing sense of how to do that hanging out with that neanderthal tommy peravich" he added.

i frowned in confusion, "hanging out? i was only with him yesterday. but you know what? i don't actually have to explain myself to you".

"guys, can you take your domestics outside my room while i'm still sleeping?" kenzie complained in mumble.

i tried to respect her since this was her room and she generously let me stay over, but i knew that another word was gonna leave jack's mouth as he stood against the door frame with a smirk.

"so did he roofie you at bradshaw's party?".

"no, he was a gentleman which you wouldn't know anything about and he walked me home until i invited him inside" i answered.

"get around quick" jack muttered.

"still sleeping" kenzie groaned whilst i looked at her brother in disbelief.

he always tries his best to push my buttons, but manages to step over the line way too often.

"are you purposely trying to make me hate you?" i questioned, leaving jack finally speechless but an annoyed kenzie to climb out of bed with a loud groan.

"she fucked tommy peravich and you both won't drop it because of your fat ego and jealousy" she gestures to jack. "and your petty broken heart".

with that, she stormed out for the bathroom. once the door shut, jack looked at me in a way that i rarely see on him. but i could tell that it was new for him too by how he uncomfortably moved in his spot.

"so you fucked him?" he asked me - his deep voice relatively low.

my tense posture relaxed with a shrug, "i-i thought you knew that".

jack nodded his head then didn't hesitate to leave his room for his own. for the first time, i wasn't actually sure if that was all just about his ego and jealousy, but it actually seemed like he cared that i had sex with someone else.

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that night, after kenzie and i watched too many movies and stuffed our faces with ice cream, i was suddenly woken up by the sound of pots and pans falling in the kitchen.

i looked beside me and saw that kenzie wasn't in her bed, so i climbed out to investigate, pulling on a pair of casual shorts with my oversized shirt.

i rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as the light in the kitchen hit me, and so did a linger of booze in the air.

"what's going on?" i questioned, seeing an unimpressed kenzie watching jack struggle to sit down on the bar chair.

"he's wasted" she picked up the items that he dropped.

"no, i'm not" he contradicted.

"look at you and you stink like a brewery" his sister complained. "you've gotta get to bed before mom comes back from her shift. sofia, help me".

"i don't need your help" jack sternly declined with his head resting in his hands.

"and i especially don't need your help either" he looked straight at me before creasing his brows like my presence had hit a nerve. "what are you doing here anyways? isn't there a peravich dick that you need to suck?".

i scoffed, shaking my head at his childish behaviour, "i don't fucking need this".

i turned around and made my way back to the stairs to go back to bed.

"what the hell is wrong with you?" kenzie quietly yelled at him. "you've been such an ass, way more than usual ever since sofia dumped you".

i paused on the staircase at the mention of my name, just enough for me to be out of sight but able to hear the conversation.

"we were never dating so you can't call it dumping" jack responded.

"says the one who's wasted on a tuesday and manages to only ever act up when she's around" kenzie corrected. "i'm your twin sister and i'm not stupid. i know that sofia hooking up with tommy annoyed you".

i had zero reason to fell bad right now but a part of me was unwillingly leaning towards that.

"but it shouldn't, right?" i hear him say with a small chuckle. "i fucked chanel, i kept sofia at arms length, i call her names that i regret as soon as they leave my mouth".

he hesitated before adding, "but...but i miss it you know. not just the sex but talking about god knows what and making her smile and laughing whenever she makes her hot headed remarks".

i'd be lying if i said that i didn't miss being around him everyday either.

it's been just over a week and parts of it have been complete torture from not being able to talk to him or laugh with him about everything.

"i do care about her, you know that right?" jack spoke.

"yeah. yeah, of course".

"does she know?".

"i think so" kenzie assured. "you just have a funny way of showing it".

"so does that mean she should go sleeping with tommy fucking peravich of all people?" he raised his voice slightly.

"if she's single then yeah, especially if the guy that she still likes treats her like another side piece from the street" kenzie told him. "you should apologise".

"...yeah" i heard jack softly say.

with that, i trapped a growing smile in my mouth and quietly went back to kenzie's room before they could notice that i was listening.

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jack's pov +

"girls, do you see the time?" my mom complained to kenzie and sofia as they came downstairs.

it was 8am on a wednesday morning, meaning that school was starting soon and all i could think about was how hungover i am right now and trying to peace everything together from last night.

mom rushed around the kitchen to tidy it slightly whilst my younger siblings hurried from the dining table to the living room.

"you don't even have time to eat breakfast" she told the girls.

"sorry, we stayed up watching a movie last night" kenzie somewhat lied, briefly glancing at me.

it's for the best that my mother doesn't know that i drank my bodyweight in beer last night because all she'd do is panic and lecture me.

"and you" her attention quickly landed on me. "you're not dressed. school, now".

i shook my head, "i'm not feeling too good, mom so i'm skipping out".

she paused from clearing away the dirty plates and let out a sigh, "you need to stop missing classes, jack or you won't graduate".

"i know" i answered before she came over and touched the back of her hand against my forehead. i was lucky that i was so hungover to the point that i was burning up right now.

"fine, just today. but this is the last of this lazying around" mom insisted. "i'll be calling hourly from work to make sure you really are in bed sick and drinking lots of fluids".

i subtly rolled my eyes at her words, watching my twin sister mock me for it. my mother grabbed two apples from the fruit bowl and handed them to kenzie and sofia.

"breakfast" she insisted, then went into the living room to gather the younger ones up for school and the babysitter.

"i'll see you all later!" she called out, which we all returned with a bye at our own paces. "oh and jack, sweetie, a letter on the counter came for you!".

it's most likely another one from school complaining to my mom about attendance or punctuality, so i focused on my cereal and decided to deal with it later.

"ready?" kenzie asked sof, bitting into her apple.

"i'll meet you outside. just getting a drink first" she told her.

kenzie soon left just the two of us in the kitchen. it was obviously filled with a lack of communication as sofia grabbed some orange juice from the fridge and i payed more attention to the spoon in my cereal bowl.

"how's the hangover coming?" she eventually asked, standing on the opposite side of the bar table to me.

"oh, well you can probably tell just by looking at the state of me" i shrugged.

"yeah" sofia very lightly chuckled. "but your mom's right, you know. all these days off and say goodbye to graduation and goodbye to your plan".

"what?" i scoffed. "stealing my dads money and starting again?".

she nodded until i disagreed.

"yeah, i don't think i'll be able to do that considering the other part of my package deal hates me right now" i answered.

sofia dropped her shoulders, letting out a sigh. "i don't hate you. i was just mad at you for treating me like dirt, jack. even after you discovered that you were the one in the wrong".

with that, she placed her glass in the sink and started to leave the kitchen with her backpack.

"sof, wait" i stopped her so she turned around. "i'm sorry for everything. i was an idiot".

she took some time to hesitate. her eyes softened to the point where i thought she was tearing up but she took a small breath and shrugged.

"it's okay".

i smiled with a sense of relief at her forgiveness. last night, there was something that i realised i may aswell admit to her or express to her.

because even though i hardly understand it myself, not admitting it could only cause me to lose her.

"sof, i know that when you told me you had feelings for me i kind of brushed it off, but—".

interrupting my words, sofia's phone vibrated in her hand.

"one sec, jack" she said before answering. "hello?...yeah, i'm already walking with kenzie but sure...no, he's not going today...okay, bye".

"who was that?" i wondered once she hung up.

"tommy. he wants to walk to school together".

i immediately frowned, "peravich? didn't take him for that kind of guy".

she brushed it off then placed her phone back in her pocket.

"so what were you saying?" she asked me.

i stood up to place my finished bowl in the sink, "nah, doesn't matter anymore".

"come on, jack" sofia replied.

i chuckled, going around her to pick up the letter my mom mentioned earlier.

"seriously sof, leave it. it was stupid anyways" i insisted before jogging upstairs and leaving her down there.

as i reached my room, i heard the front door slam shut. i stood by the window and lit up a cigarette, watching tommy cross across the street to my sister and sofia.

he hugged her, ensuring his hands sat low on her waist before all three of them began to walk away with his arm resting over sofia's shoulder.

i released the smoke from my lips, trying my best to not let my anger get to me right now.

i decided to pick up the letter and noticed that the handwriting on the front isn't like the hundreds of letters that i usually hide from school.

i opened it and it was handwritten with the words at the top reading: to my son and daughter.

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partial cliffhanger idk.

jack is salty that sofia hooked up with tommy but is still being too much of a pussy to admit that she's basically the love of his life

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