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"We kissed, Rena. I'm so embarrassed! I saw the regret on his face. What am I gonna do?" I pace back and forth in front of her as she sat on my bed, watching me pace.

"I don't know...but stop pacing you're making me dizzy" she comments and I stop and scoff in defeat.

"What the hell do I do? Do you think he told Jake?" I ask her nervously.

"No, that's for sure—otherwise Jake would've locked you inside your room" Serena says casually.

I groan and throw myself in my bed next to her.

"What do I do?" I ask her. "Well if it's eating you up, tell your brother, but otherwise I say keep it to yourself and just see what Marcus does and play it off of that" Serena says and shrugs.

"You're right, it was nothing. It was a mistake. I was drunk" I say and trying to convince myself.

"Yeah, you were—but he wasn't and it was him who kissed you" Serena retorts with a small laugh.

"Don't make me think things, Rena" I whine and she giggles.

"It's not that bad, actually it is—you've been crushing on the guy for years, he's 21 and you're 17" Serena notes in realization.

"Thanks for the reminder" I retort and glare at her, she throws herself back on my bed as well and smiles.

"Girls night?" She asks and I nod. "Girls night" I confirm.

"Hey, you two" Terry called out as he kicked my door open. "We're going to Santiago's. Come on" Terry called out, Claire smirked behind him.

"And you want us to come with you?" I ask confused. We're still only 17.

"Yeah, Jake's orders. Come on" Terry called out. "We leave in 10" Claire said and smiled at us.

We hurriedly got ready. I wore black jeans and a plain white T-shirt with a pair of sneakers.

I didn't let Serena give me a makeover, which she gave me hell about.

"Come on" I tell her for the fifth time.

She cursed before grabbing her purse. I grab my leather jacket and run downstairs with Serena hot on my heels.

"We're ready" I call out and Jake turns to us. "Finally. Let's go" He says and we follow Terry and Claire outside.

"You two are driving with Claire" Jake calls out and I see Claire drove her own car.

We get in and I sit in the front with her, I turn up the music and Claire smirks.

"Let's race them there" She says, before taking off before Terry and Jake was ready.

We laugh as we drive away from them, it doesn't take long for Jake and Terry to catch up.

They arrive first, luckily they wait for us, otherwise Serena and I wouldn't have gotten in this early in the night.

"Hey Diego" Jake called out and bro hugged the door man.

We all greeted him, walking in together, the club was already crowded, multiple people dancing and drinking.

Serena and I share a grin before following Jake to his usual table. We sit down and order drinks.

"Let's dance!" Claire says after doing our fifth round of shots.

The three of us leaves to dance and we move to the music, I feel the alcohol travel in my body, loosening up. My mind becomes careless and free.

"I love when you two are with us. Nobody can do shots like you" Claire says with a laugh.

Suddenly the girl I recognized as Claire's friend Tabitha comes up to us, she greets us and joins our dancing.

Multiple drivers piled in, my eyes traveled to the entrance, Marcus walked in with the girl I had learned whose name was Stephanie.

He said they weren't a couple, Jake said they were just sleeping together. He didn't like her so he complained all the time.

I looked away as I felt a guy dance behind me, Claire gave me a thumbs up letting me know the guy was hot.

I turned around and found out I had seen him before. "Hey Alex, still hot I see" Dane said, I grinned as I recognized him.

"Dane! It's been so long!" I say and wrap my arms around his neck as he his hands travelled to my sides.

Dane was Terry and Marcus' good friend. Jake didn't like him at all.

"Happy too late birthday, by the way. I was in Miami, sorry for the late birthday wish" Dane apologized and winced.

"It's fine" I tell him and laugh at him. "Do you have a boyfriend yet?" He asks with a smirk and I shake my head no.

"Can't seem to bag a good one" I joke, but it was the truth. People suck.

I didn't notice that we danced further away from the girls, but we did.

Dane pulled me closer and as I saw he was about to lean in, I slightly pulled back—"Dane! You're back!" Marcus shouted and hit his back rather harshly, causing us to pull away from each other in surprise.

Dane winced a bit at the sudden hit, but laughed and played it off. "Yeah, for a few weeks I am" Dane said and looked back at me.

I smiled at him and ignored Marcus' searching eyes. "Just a warning—If Jake sees you try that one more time he's gonna cut your dick off" Marcus said to Dane, but I heard him.

I scoffed and pushed Marcus away. "He won't. Shut up" I snap and roll my eyes. Marcus only steps up straighter and crosses his arms, he flexes them as he does so, Marcus was bigger build than Dane.

Which they both knew, so Marcus attempted to intimidate Dane. "Let's go, Dane" I say and grab his hand.

Dane follows me, but Marcus pushes him back by his hand on his chest.

"You're not going anywhere. Do you have a death wish? Both her brothers are here and I know you, Dane" Marcus retorted.

Marcus got to the point where he stood in front of me to get up in Dane's face.

I rolled my eyes before leaving the two to have their dog fight. Every damn time.

"What's going on?" Serena asked me and nodded towards them. "I don't know, Marcus pulled the over protective card, he's threatening him with my brothers. I don't know what his problem is" I say annoyed and cross my arms.

"That's weird as hell, neither Terry or Jake has seen you with Dane? They didn't look your way once" Serena states with a raised eyebrow.

"I don't get it" I mumble and sigh. Serena shrugs in agreement before starting to dance with me instead, Claire joins us once again.

Grinding my ass against Serena, to the music we dance against each other and every time a guy approached either Serena or Claire they reject them immediately.

Tabitha comes back to us after flirting with a guy, all of us dances closely together.

"I fucking hate Stephanie, she's an energy sucker. Everyone hates her" Claire tells me as we go to the bar to get drinks.

Claire flips her card through before ordering more shots. "She had a big attitude at the party last weekend, she's—something" I say and Claire nods.

"Yeah, I hope Marcus gives her the kick soon enough. He can't stand her either" Claire retorts with an eye roll.

"Why is he with her then?" I ask confused. Why did guys do that thing?

"She puts out, she's easy and she's good at it" Claire says with a shrug.

Shots arrive and I grab one and drink it without thinking twice.

Claire starts laughing and cheers for me before taking another with me.

"What about you? Who is your heart set on?" Claire asks with a smirk.

"Nobody" I lie to her. She knew I was lying.

"Oh come on, I recognize the self destruction from a heart burn, who's the lucky champ?" Claire asks me and I scoff.

"He's taken unfortunately and he doesn't feel the same. So it doesn't matter" I say and shrug.

Claire frowns. "I'm sorry" She says before pulling me into a side hug.

I laugh at her and we take a few more shots at the bar before going back to the dance floor.

We dance for hours before returning to the table. There Stephanie is sitting on Marcus' lap, tongue on his neck, he's basically ignoring her, he's just talking to my brothers and their friends.

"Where did Dane go?" I ask Terry. "He just went outside to smoke" he says and I nod before leaving the table.

Serena smirks at me and I return it, Claire and Tabitha slaps my ass as I walk past them, to encourage me.

I laugh at them and wink at Marcus as he stares after me with a pissed look in his eyes.

The wink didn't help the situation. For me it did, for him it didn't.

I walked outside and saw Dane alone, smoking.

"Hey, there you are" I call out, he smiles as he sees me. He had dirty blonde messy hair, blue eyes and a build body, but not as big as Marcus'.

"Yeah, you disappeared after Marcus threatened me" Dane says with a playful eye roll.

"Yeah, the testosterone levels increased way too much for me" I say and laugh.

Dane throw the cigarette and pulls me closer by my jacket. His lips are on mine within seconds, I kiss back hungrily, he spin us so I'm against the wall.

I release a small moan as he kisses me harder, with more lust and need.

"Mine or yours?" Dane asks in between kisses. I giggle before saying his.

It's a two minute walk and we leave instantly.