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"The correct term is disabled and that never stops you," I retorted.

"How am I disabled?" he frowned.

"You're disabled in the brain," I huffed.

"I think that's referred to as being 'on the spectrum'" Austin commented.

"Fine, I'll go with you shopping," Shawn nodded devouring the rest of his meal.

"You're ditching me?" Charlie frowned.

"No, Doobin said he was having trouble remembering your choreo on top of the other classes he's taking, I figured you were going to help him out and that would have left me stuck here," I sent her a slight smirk.

"He doesn't need my help," she gave me a warning look.

"Actually, some help would be great," Doobin nodded.

"Seriously?" she asked in a flat tone.

"I mean if you don't want to, I'll just go ask one of the other students," he shrugged.

"Oh, come on, throw the kid a bone," Austin sided with Doobin. I had to cough to cover the laugh that almost burst from my throat.

"Fine, but you better pay attention because I'm not doing this again," she huffed.

"Right," but Doobin and I mumble together.

CHARLIE

         I knew that he didn't want me to help with the choreography, he could do it in his sleep. But I wasn't going to boost his ego any more than it already was.

"So what part of the choreo is confusing your little brain?" I sighed following him into an empty practice room.

We have a few around the building, they were just small 5x3 meatre rooms with a mirror covering one wall and a door, there were no window and the rooms where soundproof so that several students could practise at the same time without disturbing or being disturbed by anyone. The doors also had locks on them, convenient.

"Why don't we start with something you know isn't small?"

"You're attitude?" I raised an eyebrow.

He just smirked, let out a slight laugh, then his face turned dark with lust, he took a step towards me and instinctively I took one back leaving me pressed up against the wall, with nowhere to go. His lips connected with my neck and a small moan escaped my lips, I felt his smirk on my neck before he relocated his mouth to mine. I wanted to curse myself for giving in so easily but the logic in my brain evaporated the longer Doobin's lips assaulted mine.

"If you want me to stop just say so," his husky voice whispered inside my ear. I didn't trust my voice so I just didn't say anything, he waited a few moments before taking my silence as permission to continue.

I was lost in my train of thought as we slid to the floor, he stretched my hands over my head with one hand, logic slammed back into me when I felt the cold metal clamp around my wrists.

"What are you doing?" I frowned.

"Having a little fun,"

"What if someone tries to come in?"

"The door is locked, and the room is soundproof. But if you want me to unlock you then that's fine, just thought it would be fun," he shrugged.

I don't know why, and I wasn't even sure when I had decided it would be fine, but the words seemed to fall from my mouth before my brain had the chance to run them through a logic filter. Instead of saying what I should have said, being the responsible adult and his teacher, I said;

"Leave them on,"

BM

         I wanted to throw everything, I had to step away from my desk so that I didn't throw anything breakable or important. I was trying to function on barley any sleep, Austin has stolen so much money that I wasn't able to give a lot of shifts out to my staff and I even had to let a few go. They were understanding about the whole situation, but not being able to use my staff meant that I had to cover the shifts. Thea still came in and worked the kitchen, but she didn't say anything to me, she just showed up, did her job, and left. So my day usually went; up at 3 a.m, work at the bakery until 6a.m, come home and get a few hours sleep, usually 3 or 4, then wake up but no later than 10 a.m, set up the bar, re-stock the shelves, do ordering, open, serve customers until closing at 1a.m, clean the bar, maybe eat something, quick shower, sleep for an hour, and repeat.

So, I was overworked, overtired, understaffed, and severely stressed. I had been to the bank about a loan, but they felt like I was too much of a risk, I had reported Austin to the police, but I wasn't hopeful about getting my money back, I should probably talk to one of the boys about it because I know they would help out in the bar but they hadn't been home since I slept with Olivia, it was pretty clear they know about it, also I vaguely remembered hearing Charlie's voice.

I'd been feeling guilty about that since it happened, not just because of her technically being Sam's girl-whatever, or because it was Jae's bed, or even the whole Thea situation. Don't get me wrong, I felt bad about all of that, but I had also realised that I had kind of been seeing Somin, and I mean, we weren't dating per say but it's not okay to show someone that you're interested in them and the go and slept with someone else. That's not the type of person I am, but I haven't really been acting like myself lately.

Pushing my friends away, keeping secrets, sleeping with strangers, getting angry for no reason. Okay, not for no reason, but in from the point of view from everyone else it is for not reason because I haven't told them what's going on.

Maybe I should just sell my car.

THEA

         "I still don't understand why you haven't already done your Christmas shopping," Shawn frowned at me as we made our way back to the dance studio. We had been gone about an hour and a half, long enough for Mackenzie to be long gone, and for Charlie and Doobin to have finished, 'dancing'.

"I have most of it done, shut up, like you have any Christmas shopping done," I huffed defensively.

"I only have to buy for a handful of people, and I'm not Miss Overly Organised, which is why I'm surprised that you're Christmas shopping wasn't don't in like July," he retorted.

Okay, it was actually already done, but in September, not July. I just needed a reason to get Shawn to stay out shopping when he was insisting on my getting off my foot. Besides I found some things that I just had to buy for Charlie.

"Maybe you should have used this time to do your Christmas shopping,"

"I still have time,"

"Christmas is in like 8,"

"Yeah, that's 8 days full of time to buy things,"

"When there is nothing left in the shopping centres that qualifies as good gifts, you'll regret waiting," I shook my head at him.

"It's the thought that counts," he tried to counter,

"And apparently they're the last thought," I retorted.

"Has anyone ever told you that they can only handle you in small doses?" he huffed at me.

"All the time," I nodded as we walked into 1Million, well technically I hobbled but I wasn't about to admit that.

"Shit. I have a class in 10 minutes," Shawn groaned.

"I thought you said you were free?"

"I forgot about it, I'll catch up to you later," he rushed off.

I looked around for Charlie, she didn't seem to be anywhere maybe she was still with Doobin? Her car was still out the front, and she wouldn't leave me here anyway. She had to be with Doobin, I should probably find them before Shawn stubbled across them.

"You're back," Doobin nodded towards me, he was standing in the doorway of one of the classrooms. I looked around him to see if Charlie was in there. She wasn't.

"Yeah, have you see Charlie?"

"I have," he smirked.

"Okay, stupid question. Do you know where she is?"

"Of course," he nodded still smirking.

"Well are you going to tell me?" I sighed.

"She's in that room," he nodded towards one of the practise rooms.

"Thank you,"

"Thea," he called as I turned away from him.

"What?"

"You might need these," he handed me a set of small keys.

"These look too small to unlock the door," I thought out loud.

"They're not for the door," he smirked, I frowned and began to ask him what they were for but he turned and walked into the classroom, that Shawn was teaching.

I headed over to the door he had pointed towards turned the handle, but it was locked. I thought he had said that the key wasn't for the door. I knocked just in case I had the wrong door. Then realised that the rooms were sound proof so I wasn't sure she would even hear it, so I rattled the handle.

CHARLIE

         The door handle turned and shook, if whoever was on the other side was calling me, I couldn't hear them, the downside to a soundproof room. Did I risk opening the door to see if it was Doobin with the keys? What if it was one of the other boys? How did I explain being naked and handcuffed in a practice room? I didn't. Which left me with no other option but to wait until Doobin decided to come and save me. Even though he is the reason that I'm stuck in this situation to begin with.

My phone started buzzing in my pants pocket on the floor. I maneuverer my way towards them and somehow managed to answer the call, only because it was Thea. I hit the loudspeaker button.

"Hey,"

"Hey, opened the door,"

"Why?"

"Because Doobin gave me a key and said that you would need it,"

"Where is he?"

"In Shawn's class,"

"And where is everyone else?"

"How am I supposed to know?"

"So, if I open the door, you're the only one out there?"

"Well, other than the reception staff but they're all busy. Why are you being weird?"

"Okay, I'm unlocking the door, but hurry up," I sighed working my way to my feet. I unlocked the door and quickly ducked behind it just in case anyone looked over to see what Thea was up too.

"Why are you being so weir..." Thea started at me.

"Close the door!" I snapped.

She pushed it closed and tried to cover a laugh with a cough. May have actually worked, if she didn't just laugh instead.

"What?" was all she could manage to get out between laughs.

"Shut up and give me the keys," I snapped.

"And you think you're going to be able to unlock those cuffs by yourself?" she raised an eyebrow once she stopped laughing, although she still managed to chuckle at me.

"Yes," I cursed the doubt that found its way into my voice.

"Do you want me to uncuff you?" she giggled.

"I want you to stop being a jerk, but I guess I'll take the uncuffing," I sighed, she held her laughter until I said uncuffing, for some reason she found that hysterical.

"Thea!"

"Oh, wait, I have the perfect thing for you!" she beamed.

"Like the keys to these cuffs?"

"Yeah, yeah, in a second," she rolled her eyes rummaging through the bags in her hands.

"Bro, I'm literally standing here naked," I was starting to get a little annoyed.

"Yeah, I know, I'm about to fix that,"

"You could just give me the damn keys and I could get dressed!"

"Yeah, but that wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Ah! Here it is," she smirked pulling a jacket from one of her bags.

"I have clothes over there,"

"Yeah, but this works sooo much better, I saw this in a shop and had to buy it for you, because you're technically Doobin's professor, I got you a professor jacket, with elbow pads!" she unfolded the grey checked jacket, brown patched covered the elbows.

"I hate you, now uncuff me,"

"Argh, fine," she rolled her eyes.

THEA

         I uncuffed her and she basically kicked me out of the practice room, she's so touchy sometimes. I watched Shawn's dance class through the glass door. Doobin seemed pretty pleased with himself, he caught my eye through the door and smirked at me, I suppose that the fact I was the only other person who knew about the two gave him a small kick, considering that he could basically brag about it with one look.

"Let's go," Charlie came out of the

SAM

         "I want food," Jae whined lounging across the edge of the couch.

"Then go get something," I shrugged.

"Are you kidding me? The last time I took food out of that crazy dwarfs kitchen she withheld food from me for like a week,"

"It was an hour, and that's because you were so annoying she didn't want to listen to you anymore,"

"Yeah, well, it felt like a week,"

"Then order something,"

"That takes too long to get here, and it costs money,"

"You can wait until she gets home,"

"Can you message them and see how long they're going to be?"

"Why can't you do it?"

"Because I don't know where my phone is," he whined

"You're literally staring at it,"

"Shh, busy," he muttered scrolling through Tumblr.

SAM: Hey, where are you guys? Jae is complaining he's hungry and I'm worried he is going to eat me.

I wasn't expecting her to reply so quickly but she replied before I could relock my phone.

CHARLIE: Just waiting for Thea to get her braces off, not sure how long it will take.

"Charlie doesn't know how long she is going to be,"

"They went shopping, how much can two poor girls even buy?" he huffed.

"They're at the dentist, Thea is getting her braces off," I rolled my eyes. He paused, looked at me and smirked.

"Come on," he stood up.

"What?"

"We'll go get food, Thea is going to be in so much pain when she gets back," he beamed.

"You don't need to sound so happy about it," I frowned.

"Yes, I do. Do you know how easy it is to annoy her when she's in pain, and then she does that thing where she get huffy and hurts herself, it's hilarious, but I'll even buy her food to make up for it,"

"Really?" I looked at him sceptically.

"I mean, you'll pay for it because I lost my wallet, but sure," he shrugged.

"Of course, you did," I rolled my eyes.

"I think I left it next to or on my bed, so it may as well be lost, who knows what naked parts of BM have touched that," he shuttered.

"Okay fine," I sighed.

"Keys," he held his hand out.

"Why?"

"Because you still can't drive? Do you think I'm going to walk there and like go into the building with those people?"

"Those people? Who are also going to buy fast food because their too lazy to cook for themselves?"

"If you were supposed to cook for yourself they wouldn't have invented cars and drive throughs, are you going to mope around here daydreaming about Charlie or are you going to come on this adventure with me?"

"We're going on an adventure?"

"It's modern-day hunting, come on Samwise," he stood.

"Does that make you Frodo?" I raised an eyebrow following him.

"I feel more like a Gandalf, wise and magical,"

"More like Radagast," I commented.

"Charlie likes him better anyway," he shrugged.

CHARLIE

         The boys weren't there when we got home, or at least Sam's car wasn't and he still can't drive so unless Jae decided to go out and take Sam's car, which wasn't likely.

"I thought the boys were staying again?" Thea frowned.

"Maybe they went to get a change of clothes," I shrugged.

"Hopefully they don't come back, the last thing I need right now is Jae and his stupid face,"

"Are you sure you two don't have a thing for each other?" I raised an eyebrow.

"If by 'a thing' you mean do I want to stab him with a sword? Then yes, but if you mean in the general sense, then I would rather stab myself with a sword," she pulled a disgusted face.

"You two just seem really interested in where each other are," I shrugged.

"I am in enough pain right now; do you have to make me want to vomit as well?" she sighed.

"Shouldn't you be pain-free after having your braces off?"

"You would think so, after two years with the pressure moving my teeth you would think the release would be amazing, not painful,"

"Then again, it's been two years of pressure, what happens when you release the pressure after you hurt yourself?"

"Intense pain," she groaned collapsing into the couch.

"There are painkillers in the kitchen, do you want me to get them?"

"I'll get them, hot coffee might help with the pain," she sighed.

"Alright,"

"Do you want water in the kettle?" she asked.

"I'm good," I shook my head.

She just nodded leaving the room, I checked my messages to see if Sam and sent one letting me know where he had gone, he hadn't.

CHARLIE: Hey, where are you guys?

SAM: Jae decided he would have me buy us food, he thought it would be entertaining to get things Thea can't eat and eat it in front of her.

CHARLIE: Forget his wallet again?

SAM: Apparently he lost it

CHARLIE: I bet you it's in his pocket

"Where are these painkillers?" Thea asked, she walked into the lounge room pulling the door with her.

"On the shelf about the kettle,"

"They're not," she shook her head.

"Maybe they're in my bedroom," I got up, she turned around to leave the room, the door handle wouldn't turn.

"Not funny," I frowned at her.

"Not kidding," she frowned back.

"Seriously?"

"I must have hit the lock on the way in,"

"You locked us in the lounge room?"

"I mean not if your bedroom window isn't locked," I thought about it, I had locked it a few nights ago, there was a breeze that came into my room and the window only stayed securely closed if it was locked.

"Is yours?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Paranoid," she pointed at herself.

"So you locked us in the lounge room," I sighed.

"I mean only technically, we can just call one of the boys to come to save us," she shrugged.

"Jae and Sam only went to get food, they'll be back soon,"

"See, we're fine," she shrugged again.

"I'll text Sam and ask them to hurry up,"

SAM

         CHARLIE: Hey, can you guys be quick, Thea locked us in the lounge room

"We don't need anything else?" I asked as Jae pulled out of the parking lot.

"No, why? Do you miss Charlie already?"

"No, the girls are locked in the lounge room, Charlie wants us to come save them,"

"How did they...?" he because.

"Thea," I cut him off.

"Of course," he shook his head.

"Well, let's go to the Zoo then," he smirked, which probably meant he wasn't going to save them straight away.

"The Zoo?"

"Their lounge room is basically entirely windows, which means we can eat and enjoy the show,"

"Charlie will kill you,"

"Wait," I shot out before she could ask her question.

"What?" she sighed.

"I think we should reset, you two are just targeting each other and us three will have to take sides, I think it would be better if we just start again and ask broad questions rather than directed ones,"

"Where is the fun in that?" Mark asked.

"I don't know, maybe not being at each other's throats might be more fun than getting mad at each other,"

"Sounds lame, but okay," Charlie shrugged.

JACKSON

         Thea's plan only worked for two rounds, then Mark and Charlie decided to turn on Thea and I. I'm not sure if it was because they were mad at us or because they wanted us out of the way so they could just attack each other. The four of us were sitting around the coffee table while Sam and Jae sat on the couch so that no one got confused about who was out.

"I've never, had an obsession with Jesse McCartney," Charlie stated.

"Dude, I was 12," Thea frowned.

"And yet you still need to fold a finger," she shrugged.

"Asshole," The mumbled but folded a finger anyway.

"I've never, introduced myself with an embarrassing name," Mark stated.

"Embarrassing to whom?" I challenged.

"JFlawless, Wild and Sexy,"

"Okay, I get it," I sighed and folded a finger.

"So much for not attacking each other," Jae commented.

"I've never had a sister," I was a little petty and was trying to get back at Mark, but Charlie also put a finger down. So now Thea, Mark and I were one finger away from losing, somehow Charlie had two.

"I've never competed in a dance competition," Thea huffed, I think she had also had enough fo being targeted.

"Lightning round," Jae cheered.

"Thank god the game is almost over," Sam sighed.

CHARLIE

         "I've never slept with someone I reget,"

"Wow," Thea shook her head at me but folded her last finger and sat up on the couch.

"What? It's not my fault you regret it," I shrugged.

"Competetive you is an asshole," she retorted.

"Oh well,"

"I've never, sprayed myself in the eye with my own perfume," Mark stated, Jackson sighed and sat up on the couch next to Thea.

"Good thing you're already out," Jae shot his comment towards Thea.

"I'll spray you in the eye with your perfume,"

"I don't wear perfume," he retorted.

"That explains why you reak," she shot back.

"Are you ready to lose?" I baited. It was my question and as long as I said something I was sure he had done, I would win.

"I don't need to prepare for something that won't happen,"

"Want to bet on it," Jae took the opportunity.

"I don't gamble,"

"Are you scared you'll lose?" Mark baited.

"You realise I ask the question next and then game over?"

"Then what are you worried about?" he challenged.

"Fine, let's bet on it,"

"Sweet, okay so the loser has to give the winner a wish," Jae stated.

"Can I wish for him to jump off a cliff?" I asked.

"I mean I guess, but you should probably be more specific because he can just bungee jump or cliff jump and I'm assuming you mean to die,"

"Can you just shut up and ask your question," Thea sighed.

"I've never had to have my parents bail me out," I stated smugly, my smirk quickly faded when he didn't move and instead he looked at me triumphantly. Shit.

"Seriously?" I sighed.

"Seriously, I told you, I earnt my money, I don't need my parents to bail me out of anything, you should probably listen to other people better instead of assuming you're always right," he stated.

MARK

         If looks could kill I was sure that I would have burst into flames, or maybe have just combusted but fortunately for me, looks couldn't kill so instead of dying I felt a huge sense of smug victory. For s split seconds I considered letting her win, but then I decided it was more fun to have her lose. I liked the idea of her owing me a favour.

"I've never posted inspirational quotes on my Instagram," I voice my final question and her final blow. I was sure she was going to flip the table at me but I was also positive that she couldn't lift it so I wasn't too worried.

"You stalked my Instagram?" I frowned.

"I looked through your Instagram when Jackson mentioned the double date," I nodded.

"Why?"

"To see if you were attractive, why else? Did you not look through mine?"

"Okay, one, I didn't know about the double date, two I didn't know you had Instagram, and three, why would I waste my time looking through your Instagram when just the sight of your face pisses me off?" she snapped. LosingClearly losing wasn't something she was good at.

There was a slight stab to my ego when she said she hadn't looked at my Instagram and the fact that she didn't even know I had one was another small blow. I mean, okay so she didn't know that she was being set up with me but wouldn't you at least go and look me up afterwards, wasn't she the least bit curious?

"You weren't the least bit curious?" Jackson voiced my inner question.

"Not in the slightest," Charlie retorted.

"It doesn't matter, now you owe me a favour,"

"The bane of my existence," she shot before getting up and leaving the room.

THEA

         "Okay, so tonight didn't go as planned," I rubbed the back of my neck as I walked Jackson and MArk out to Jackson's car. Or at least I assumed it was Jackson's car, he was the one driving. The black Nissan Navara looked more like a Jackson car, seeing as he was in the construction business, I didn't see Mark driving such a big car for Marketing, then again the Navara was strangely clean for what you would expect from a car that was around paint and concrete dust all day.

"No, but it is probably what we should have expected with those two being in the same room," Jackson nodded towards Mark who was getting into the passenger seat.

"They do seem to create a bad vibe together," I agreed.

"Only because they don't get along, imaging the chemistry they could have if they would just stop attacking each other," Jackson's eyes lit up with excitement.

"If they don't destroy the planet in the process," I laughed.

"That's a bit dramatic,"

"That's me, a bit dramatic," I shrugged.

"I think you're underestimating yourself," he joked, or at least I think he was joking.

"Thanks for coming over tonight," I started feeling the butterflies stirring in my stomach from the way he was looking down at me.

"Anytime, you should go get off of your foot,"

"It's not as bad as everyone thinks," I shrugged.

"Even the doctor?" he countered.

"The doctor was probably a quack,"

"I don't think he would be a doctor if he wasn't qualified," he smiled.

"You'd be surprised,"

"Go on, go get off your foot, I'll text you when I get home," He pulled me in for a quick hug. He smelt amazing, and the hug was soft and warm, I swear if he hadn't of pulled away I would have melted into the hug and stayed there all night. I had to clear my throat and take a step back as he got into his car.

"Bye," I waved shyly.

I watch as he reversed out of the driveway, he beeped and drove away. It was like the further he drove away the more of my senses came back to me. My eyes widened as I turned around.

"What is wrong with you," I mumbled to myself.

"That was worse than watching a trainwreck," Jae shivered as I walked into the lounge room.

"Why were you watching?"

"I was hoping to see heartbreak as he told you that you were to short and crazy to see again. I was not expecting kissy faces and you falling over your own words," he retorted.

"Oh my god, did I make kissy faces?" I asked feeling mortified.

"That's not how you're supposed to respond," he frowned.

"Whatever, did I?"

"Yes, it was disgusting," he shivered again.

"Oh god, how embarrassing,"

"What's wrong with her?" Jae turned to Sam.

"I think she just likes him, are you ready to go?" Sam shrugged.

"Go where?" I frowned.

"Home," Sam looked at me like I was stupid.

"You can't drive, and he's been drinking so he can't drive either," I shook my head. I had already taken the keys and hidden them away.

"Then can't you take us home?" Sam asked.

"Seriously?" I raised an eyebrow looking down at my foot.

"Right,"

"Just stay here tonight,"

"I'll take you home, let's go," Charlie came into the room, she had been in her room since the scene with Mark.

"On a scale of one to ten how pissed at me are you?" I asked awkwardly.

"I'm not pissed at you," she shrugged.

"Really?"

"Unless your name is Mark,"

JACKSON

         Neither of us spoke on the way home but Mark seemed pretty pleased with himself. If his goal was to piss Charlie off and upset her in her own house then he succeeded, not that I think that bothered him one bit.

I pulled into the underground parking and park my baby in my parking spot.

"We should order pizza," Mark nodded more to himself than to me.

"I'm good," I shrugged locking my car and following him to the elevator.

"Are you mad?" he raised an eyebrow.

"No, I'm just not hungry, Thea made a lot of food and I had a lot of time to eat while you and Charlie attacked each other," I pressed the button for our floor.

"So, you are mad," he rolled his eyes.

"I'm not mad, it's not like you were an asshat by yourself, Charlie wasn't all that nice to you either,"

"She started it the second I walked in the door, I was going to try and be civil with her but then she decided that she wanted nothing to do with that plan,"

"Probably because the last few times she's seen you, you've made assumptions about her sex life," I muttered.

"And she's made assumptions about me,"

"So, your plan is an eye for an eye?"

"I don't have a plan," he shrugged.

CHARLIE

         "Do you want to come in for a bit?" Sam offered.

"I guess," I shrugged.

"I mean, you don't have too, I just thought after tonight you might want a breather," he shrugged.

"You mean after you brought a random girl over and then joked with her nemesis all night when you're supposed to be her best friend?" Jae stated.

"I thought you were her best friend?" he countered.

"No, I'm her bro, it's different,"

"How?"

"I'm better,"

"Would you both shut up, let's go," I sighed.

The two of them continued to bicker the whole way through the bar, which was surprisingly busy, but BM was nowhere to be seen which was a little odd. They continued to bicker up the stairs and then at the top landing they both shut up and froze.

"What?" I frowned.

"Shhhh!" They both snapped, then I heard the moans.

"What the hell?" I muttered walking up behind them.

BM and Olivia were naked and entangled with each other, on Jae's bed. It was disgusting but it was also like watching a train wreck, horrible but you can't look away. My disgust turned to irritation, he was being an absolute asshole to Thea for sleeping with his friend, now here he was boning a girl that was supposed to be with his friend on his other friends' bed. That is breaking so many bro codes.

"What the hell," I stated loud enough for them to hear me, Jae's hand covered my mouth and the two of them pulled me back down the stairs before BM had time to look over, not that I even think he heard.

THEA

         "Why are you back? I thought you weren't staying here tonight?" I frowned.

"Jae can't sleep in his own bed," Charlie commented.

"Why?"

"Because BM was boning Olivia on it," Jae stated.

"Sam's Olivia?" I raised an eyebrow.

"She's not Sam's anything," Charlie shot.

"Okay," I held my hands up defensively.

"Yeah, that Olivia," Sam nodded.

"Seriously?" I frowned; I felt a surge of anger rush through me. After all the crap he has been giving me the past week.

"Seriously, I am never going to be able to sleep in the bed again," Jae shivered.

"Whatever, they're staying here because BM is a shitty person," Charlie stated.

"You're so moody today," Jae commented.

"I'm tired," She sighed.

"Too much sex?" Jae joked.

"What? No," Charlie frowned, Jae looked at her funny, probably because she answered too quickly.

"She's tired of your face," I interjected to distract him.

"Are you sure she's not tired of having to live with you?" he retorted. Charlie visibly relaxed.

"I'm going to shower, then go to bed,"

"Seriously, who did you sleep with?" Jae raised an eyebrow at her.

"Whoever it was, they clearly know how to wear her out," I smirked. Charlie gave me a look that basically screamed shut up.

CHARLIE

         "Do you want to go out somewhere?" I asked sipping on my tea.

"Where?" Thea slightly turned her head to look at me.

"I don't know, I'm just bored,"

"Probably because you've had your hands, and other parts, full lately," she chuckled turning her attention to her coffee cup, which, knowing her was probably empty.

"Fine, stay here and sit by yourself with your crappy leg," I shrugged.

"Don't be like that," she rolled her eyes.

"So, yes, you want to go somewhere?"

"When the alternative is sitting here alone with my crappy leg, yes I want to go somewhere,"

"Maybe we should go visit Kiwoo," I commented.

"Feeling a hair change?" she raised an eyebrow.

"I'm feeling anything that isn't Doobin,"

"Are you sure? He seems pretty feelable," she winked at me.

"Are you coming with me or not?"

"I'm not Doobin, but I'll join you in a hair change,"

"I think you need an attitude change but okay," I rolled my eyes at her.

BM

         I stretched out, realising I was in a bed and I wasn't alone. Last night was a little foggy after Olivia and I got back to the bar and started drinking. I was assuming that it was Olivia that I slept with which was kind of like a cold bucket of water to the face. I didn't want to open my eyes and confirm it because then I would just feel guilt, not just to Sam who was supposed to be kind of dating her, let's be realistic, he was using her to piss Charlie off. But I also felt extremely guilty towards Thea, I had been attacking her for her being with Austin and Drew, and they were only my friends. Sleeping with Olivia was breaking the bro code.

I heard her softly sigh and decided to try and sneak out of the bed, except I was between her and the wall, or at least it felt like a wall. Then it occurred to me that if we were drinking at the bar then hopefully, we didn't drive, meaning that we either got a taxi back to her house or, more conveniently, we went upstairs. But I have a lounge, I don't use a bed, so if we had gone upstairs then I was in either Sam or Jae's bed, which more than broke the bro code.

Slowly, I pried my eyes open just enough to see where I was, the sudden light in my eyes made me very aware of the pounding headache my mind babble had distracted me from. Ignoring the pounding in my skull I looked around the room, I was naked and asleep next to a naked Olivia, in Sam's bed.

So, the high horse I had been acting as though I was riding lately, just threw me off, I slept with my friend's kind of girlfriend in my other friends' actual bed. Sam, I didn't see being annoyed about the whole sleeping with Olivia thing, but Jae was going to beyond pissed about my boning in his bed, and to be fair he had every right to be pissed.

"Shit," I heard her whisper.

I wasn't proud of what I did next, instead of letting her know that I was also awake I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep as she carefully crawled out of bed and re-dressed herself. I heard her search for something then I heard writing and her walking down the stairs. I sighed looking around the room, the boys weren't back, so I was guessing they stayed at the girls last night instead of coming home, or at least that's what I was hoping.

I found the note on the counter in the kitchen.

Uh, hey, so I would say last night was great, but I don't really remember it. Um, I don't usually do this and sorry if this affects you and Sam, I think he should know but if you don't want to tell him then I guess that's cool with me, it doesn't affect me in any way.

So, thanks for not letting me drive,

Olivia.

THEA

         "Maybe we should take the boys some lunch?" I suggested.

"You want to go home?" she raised an eyebrow.

"What? No, I mean the 1Million guys,"

"Oh, no," she shook her head.

"Oh, you know you want to,"

"I don't want to take them lunch, but I guess if you really want to then I can drive you to take them lunch," she sighed as if it were too much work.

"Bro, you know you want to go bone Doobin," I rolled my eyes.

"Bro, shut up,"

"So, I'm right,"

"Do you want to go or not?"

"Let's go,"

It didn't take long to get to the dance studio and we stop through McDonald's on the way to get the boys something to eat fast food probably wasn't the best option but he was easier than going into subway. Everyone but Austin was in the dance studio teaching a class or preparing for one. Austin's eyes lit up this minute he saw the Brown paper bag.

"afternoon ladies, what brings you here ?"

"We thought we would bring you lunch," I smirked at him.

"And you thought McDonald's would be a good option ?"

"No one is forcing you to eat it, I'm sure one of the other boys will eat yours,"

"Hey, I never said I didn't want it,"

"Then shut up and take your food,"

It wasn't long before the others started to sniff out the food. Doobin was first, the Junsun, who just started eating, I was sure if everyone else didn't show up that he would devour it all. Koosung was next, I swear he looked like he was out of a loony toon and his nose just followed the smell, carrying him to where the food was. Shawn was still in a class so I had pulled some food out and put it aside for him.

Everyone was having a laugh and everything seemed fine, then there was a sudden drop in the atmosphere, everyone fell silent, except for the few 'oh no's' and the chain of mumbled cuss words that fell from Doobin's mouth.

They were all staring at the reception desk at a girl who looked rather dishevelled and fidgety.

"Why is she here?" Koosung frowned.

"I don't know, but she needs to leave before he sees her," Doobin took a quick glance to the classroom Shawn was teaching in.

"Who is she?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Mackenzie," the boys said in unison with a tone that was like they were trying to get a bad taste out of their mouth.

"That's her?!"

I had never seen her before but I had heard a lot about Mackenzie, she was Shawn's on again off again, toxic, ex-girlfriend. From the stories that I had heard, she comes into his life because she's blown up her own and he is so in love with her that he fixes everything for her, and then just as suddenly, she leaves again. Her leaving makes most of them happy, but it breaks Shawn every time.

"What are we going to do? Ask her to leave?" Austin frowned.

"Because that worked so well last time?" Koosung commented.

"She screamed the place down until Shawn knew she was here," Junsun added.

"He's just gotten back to a good place," Doobin sighed.

I shook my head letting out a sigh, I felt a strange rage knowing that she was so quick to manipulate Shawn into doing her bidding, and it seemed like she didn't care about what it did to him, she just didn't want to deal with her own problems. I pulled all of my rings off my fingers, picked the one that would work the best and slid it onto my finger, slipping the rest into my bag before heading towards her.

"What are you doing?" Austin hissed.

"Being Thea," I shrugged.

"Oh Jesus, this isn't going to end well," Junsun sighed.

"Ye of little faith," I retorted walking up to the hoe-bag. She turned to stare at me with bloodshot eyes, dilated pupils. I'd had my fair share of experience with high people, she definitely wasn't sober.

"Can I help you?" I asked sweetly, the young girl behind the reception desk frowned at me, then looked over at the others and kept quiet.

"I'm looking for Shawn," she said slightly defensively.

"Oh, I'll just go get him for you, how should I say is looking for him?"

"Mackenzie, I'm" she began to explain, but I held my hand up to cut her off.

"Oh, I know who you are," I dropped my cheerful tone along with my hand and used one that lacked all emotion except disdain.

"I see you've heard of me from Doobin," she shook her head.

"No, from Shawn,"

"That doesn't seem right considering he wouldn't say anything bad about me,"

"That was before he met me," I shrugged.

"And you are?" she raised an eyebrow crossing her arms over her chest.

"I'm his fiancé, and he thought that it would be good to be completely honest with me. So, I know all about your past, I know all about you're inability to control your own life, and I know that every time your world falls apart you come running to him to fix it. But he won't be doing that anymore, he told us that if you ever showed up again to tell you to leave, and to not come back because he is finally happy and he doesn't want to fall down into you deep dark miserable hole that you seem to live your life in,"

"I don't believe you, do you really think that he would choose you over me? Because prettier, smarter girls have tried to test that theory,"

"I mean we can bring him out here and see if you like, I think the rejection will hurt more coming from him, but that's up to you. Just know I have one more card up my sleeve," I smiled sweetly.

"Oh?"

"I found out this morning that we're expecting, and I'm not sure how well you know my Shawnie, but I know how much family means to him, I mean he did choose his brother over you. Do you really think he will want some deadbeat junky in his child's life?" I asked in a tone like we were having a conversation about the weather.

"You're lying,"

"So we will see who Shawn believes, we can call him out here and cause a whole scene, or you can walk right back out that door and I'll pretend I never saw you," I shrugged.

She thought about it for a minute, glared at me and turned around.

"How did you do that?" Doobin smiled at the sight of her leaving.

"Told her we were getting married and that I had just found out I was pregnant," I shrugged.

"Is that McDonald's I smell?" Shawn asked walking out of his classroom just as the entrance doors closed.

"Clearly, BM opened his mouth again," Jae commented.

"When does that idiot speak when he shouldn't?" Charlie commented.

MARK

         It was pretty clear that Sam had a huge thing for Charlie, I wasn't sure she had any idea about it though, I think she might have been to preoccupied with her jealousy over the girl Sam had brought over. Whether that meant that she also liked him back or just didn't like to share her toys was another story.

"You should see how much she cooked," Jackson stated bringing in plates of food, followed by a hobbling Thea who also had plates of food.

"You think this is a lot of food?" Sam raised an eyebrow.

"Cooking is basically the only thing she is good at, next to causing harm to herself," Jae shrugged.

"I'll hurt you in a minute," Thea frowned at him.

"Scary, what are you going to do? You're crippled and tiny," he seemed to be baiting her.

"Dude, stop," Charlie frowned at him. I think maybe she noticed the uncomfortable face Jackson was pulling.

"You're so lame," he sighed but stopped making fun of Thea.

"So," Jae stretched the word out once everyone was finally seated.

"What?" Charlie raised an eyebrow at him.

"Did you really make BM leave?" Jae asked.

"What?" Thea asked.

"Is that what he said?" she frowned, clearly confused.

THEA

         "No, he just said he was leaving, but I assumed that you two had another fight," Jae shrugged.

"Well, you know what they say about assuming," I shrugged.

"I also know that BM has been an ass lately and no one would really blame you if you did kick him out," Jae retorted.

"Ew, are you siding with me?" I pulled a grossed-out face.

"What? Gross,"

"Sure sounded like it," Charlie muttered.

"I was just saying, you know what? Whatever," he rolled his eyes.

"Look, I didn't kick him out, I told him that he was welcome to stay, all I did was tell him that I was done with fighting and that I was tired of putting you all in a situation where it seemed like you had to choose sides. So, maybe it was better if we just stopped talking to each other," I said, even as I was saying it I was regretting it, it made me sad to think that BM and I were no longer friends, it was upsetting that we ever came to this point, but it did and this was the better choice than destroying the group completely.

"You broke up with BM?" Sam sounded shocked.

"We're here to eat and play games not discuss my relationship with BM,"

"Okay grumpy," Jae rolled his eyes.

"What should we play first?" Jackson stepped in before I could make a retort.

"Your mum," Jae retorted.

"What?" Jackson frowned.

"Ignore him, his mouth isn't actually connected to his brain,"

"And what's your mouth connected too?" he shot back at me.

"Jenga!" Sam stated, I think he was just trying to resolve the bickering, probably for the sake of his new side piece which he hadn't noticed was missing yet.

"You want to play Jenga?" Charlie frowned.

"Why not?"

"Maybe because your shoulder is still in the recovery stages and you're probably going to be the first to lose," she shrugged.

"No way, Thea has terrible hand-eye coordination, and we don't know how well the newbies play," Jae took the opportunity to attack me again.

BM

       "So how long did it take you to figure out Sam's in love with Charlie?" I asked breaking the silence.

"Almost as soon as we walked in, you can tell by the way he looks at her,"

"Most people can," I corrected.

"Most? It's not like he's doing a good job at hiding it,"

"Charlie is oblivious to his feelings,"

"Seriously?" she frowned.

"Yeah, or at least that's the way it seems. Honestly, I think she knows exactly how he feels but she likes the attention and doesn't want to share him with anyone but at the same time she doesn't want to date him so she just strings him along,"

"That sounds a little harsh," she continued to frown at me.

"Her and I have never really seen eye to eye," I shrugged.

"Is that because you have a little thing for her?" she raised an eyebrow.

"What? No,"

"Right, she looks like that, if you haven't had a thing for her at least once you're a liar. Hell, I think I have a thing for her,"

"I don't have a thing for Charlie,"

"Oh come on, you have issues because of unresolved sexual tension, I think that maybe you don't want her and Sam together because you're mad that there is more of a chance of her dating him than you, it's probably been sitting just under the surface since you were in high school," she tatted matter-of-factly.

"Do you mind if I call past the bar before I drop you off at home? I just have to make sure my sister hasn't destroyed my business," I ignored her statement.

"And that is called avoidance," she commented.

"Who are you?" I frowned.

"I work as a phycologist," she shrugged as if it were nothing.

"Seriously?"

"It's not that different from being a bartender,"

"How?"

"I mean, you're basically a therapist, but you don't get the pay. But therapy and phycology aren't that different,"

"You never answered my question,"

"I think I could use a drink,"

CHARLIE

         "This is really good," Jackson commented on Thea's cooking. Again.

"Why don't we change games? This one is getting boring," Sam stated at the same time.

"I think it's quite entertaining," Jae shrugged, I could hear the smirk in his voice.

The rest of the group was feeling a little tense, we were still playing Jenga, Thea had given up after the first round after she lost and Jae made fun of her, Jae lost next, of course, that could have had something to do with Thea sabotaging him but the only proof of that was him saying she bumped him and our knowledge of her personality. Jackson was the next to go followed by Sam. Which, just left myself and Mark who were not in an intense one on one and I refused to lose to this trust fund douche bag.

"Yeah, come on guys, it's just a game," Thea said cautiously.

"I'm not going to lose to this trust fund douche bag," I spoke my insult aloud.

"Charlie," Sam frowned.

"I don't have a trust fund," Mark roll his eyes.

"Sure you don't," I shrugged.

"I work hard for my money," he retorted.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I frowned.

"It means exactly what I said, my job requires actual work,"

"You don't even know what I do for work,"

"I can only assume,"

"You know what they say about assuming," Jae commented.

"Can one of you just lose so we can stop playing this stupid game?" Thea sighed.

"You only think it's stupid because you lost," Jae stated.

"So did you,"

"Yeah, but you lost first so," he shrugged.

"Are you two always like this?" Jackson frowned.

"Yes," we all said at the same time, well, all but Jackson and Mark.

"Why?" Jackson asked.

Jae and Thea launched into blaming each other, I'm pretty sure they don't even remember why they attack each other anymore. I know the rest of us don't. Mark pushed out another block, the Jenga tower was basically a skeletal structure at this point, I held my breath hoping that what was left of the tower would fall down because I had no idea how I was going to remove a block without losing. I had to bite back my frustration when his stupid dainty little fingers managed to remover the block without so much as swaying the tower.

"This is the most intense game of Jenga I have ever witnessed," Jackson commented.

"You're an intense game of Jenga," I rolled my eyes.

"That doesn't even make sense," he frowned.

"You don't make sense,"

"Just lose already," someone mutter, I wasn't sure who it was but it only made me more determined to beat Mark.

I held my breath again as I slid a block out from the tower, it shook slightly and I swear I almost threw up, I finally relaxed when the tower steadied, there was a small jolt of victory when I saw the flash of irritation through Mark's eyes. He wasn't sure he was going to be able to beat me.

My phone buzzed in my lap and I figured that it was Thea texting me telling me to stop being an ass. Instead, Doobin's name flashed across my screen after the notification of a new message.

Doobin: How's game night? Fallen asleep yet? ;)

Charlie: I'm busy winning at Jenga.

Mark just sat there staring at the tower for a while. I was getting impatient.

"There is no harm in forfeiting, I mean you're going to lose anyway," I baited.

"I'm not going to lose," he stated without looking up from the tower. I watched as he pulled the block slowly the block was halfway out when my phone buzzed again.

Doobin: I have a tower you can play with ;)

I quickly closed my phone and turned my attention back to the game. Mark was sitting on the other side of the table with the biggest smug grin I have ever seen on a douche bag. He was holding the block he had been removing before I get distracted by my phone.

"Your turn," he smirked.

"Tool," I sighed.

I decided on a block and started to pull it from its place, I was almost there, I almost had it and I was sure that there was no way that Mark was going to be able to pull another block from this tower without it toppling over. Then, my phone buzzed again and the nervousness and let's be honest, excitement that Doobin brings me, hit me all at the same time and I jumped, block still in had. The sound of the blocks crashing on the table replaced the nerves and excitement with pure irritation and the look of triumph on Mark's face had me seeing red.

"Shit," I heard Sam and Thea mutter.

"Well, that was unexpected," Jae commented.

"New game?" Jackson suggested.

"I win," Mark gave a small shrugged like it was nothing but the smirk on his face said something else.

SAM

         Charlie glared at Mark and looked like she wanted to leap across the table. She opened her mouth to speak, I was sure that when she started it would only escalate and then it would be likely that the night ended early.

"Hey, where did Oliva go?" I frowned. I hadn't noticed she was even missing until that point.

"Dude, she left with BM," Thea stated.

"Yeah she's been gone for over an hour," Jae nodded.

"Seriously?" I frowned.

"Yeah,"

"Why would she just leave without saying anything?"

"Maybe because your attention was elsewhere?" Jae suggested.

"I was just talking to you guys," I shrugged defensively.

"Sure," Thea nodded.

"Who cares why she left? She's gone, BM's gone, and there are a few other people I wish were with them," Charlie glared at Mark.

"Are you leaving?" Mark raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, enough," Thea sighed.

"He cheated," Charlie muttered.

"How exactly did I cheat?" Mark looked amused.

"Because of your dainty girl hands," she shot back.

"You have actual girl hands, so would that just even out the odds?" he questioned.

"You're girl hands," she huffed.

"Right," he rolled his eyes at her.

"Okay, seriously, new game," Thea interjected.

"Like what?"

"Umm," Thea took a deep breath then made a pop noise. She froze, Charlie, Jae and I looked at her as she continued to hold her breath and think of a word.

"Hurry up, you don't want to pass out again," Jae commented.

"What is she doing?" Jackson frowned.

"Thinking of a word that starts with pop," I stated.

"Why?"

"Because she just made the pop noise,"

"I'm confused,"

"Shh, if she doesn't think of a word she has to keep holding her breath and she'll pass out,"

"Padom," she finally breathed.

"Poppadom is not a word," Jae frowned.

"Yes, it is,"

"No, it's not, you just made it up,"

"Look it up, it's a word, maybe you should expand your vocabulary," she shot back.

"What does it mean then genius?"

"It's Indian flatbread," she stated matter-of-factly.

"You're Indian flatbread," he rolled his eyes at her.

BM

         "I don't think that is really your fault," she agreed with me.

"That's what I thought!" I almost yelled. Finally, someone was on my side.

"But it's not her fault either, and honestly it sounds like you were kind of a jerk about it. I mean it's one thing to attack her for sleeping with your friend and keeping it from you, but I mean he was also her friend so it wasn't really as bad as you make it sound. Also, the second friend she slept with she didn't know he was your friend, I mean if you really think about it, it kind of sounds like she has fallen victim and that your friends have a habit of manipulating her into bed," she continued.

"She doesn't really need that much manipulating," I shot coldly, I hadn't actually meant it but I was sick of people defending her and attacking me.

"Yeah, see, saying stuff like that to someone who is supposed to be your best friend, I'm not surprised she doesn't want to be your friend anymore, and I'm also not that shocked that everyone is siding with her instead of you,"

"I liked you better when you were agreeing with me,"

"I'm not disagreeing with you, I think that it's possible that you have other things going on in your life and you're using this as a way to get all of your frustration out,"

"You got all of that from this conversation?"

"No, I got that from the flash of guilt that goes through your eyes when you insult her," she stated downing half her beer.

"How do you know it's guilt? You don't even know me," I raised an eyebrow.

"I've seen enough guilt in my life to recognise it," she shrugged.

"Here," I handed her another drink.

CHARLIE

         "Ew, no I'm not playing that," I frowned when Thea brought the box into the room, well she tried, Jackson had gotten up to help her which she had tried to avoid but gave into.

"Come on it will be fun," she stated.

"I'm not stopping you from playing it, but my idea of fun isn't eating something I don't like the taste of," I shrugged as Mark scoffed.

"What?" I shot.

"I don't think you like the taste of everything you put in your mouth, I mean unless you do," he commented.

"I think maybe you should stop talking now," Jae warned.

"And what are you going to do you, twig bitch?" Thea shot, I think it was more to ease the tension in the room rather than actually attacking him,"

"I'll use our handy little pocket hulk,"

BM

         "You can't drive home," I frowned at both of her, both of her?

"Well you can't drive me home," she giggled.

"I'll call you an uber," I blinked to try and get her to morph back together.

"Ew, no, I don't want some creeper taking me home," she stubbled backwards, I reached out to stop her from falling but I reached for the wrong her.

"Ow!" She frowned up at me from where she had landed on her butt.

"Well if you would just stay together I would have been able to grab you, how am I supposed to know which one of you is you," I huffed defensively.

"What the hell are you talking about?" she brushed herself off.

"I'm talking about the fact that I can see two of you, no wait, three, now there is three of you,"

"You're drunk," she laughed.

"Coming from you?"

"Which one of me?" she winked.

"Come on, let's get you upstairs," I laughed.

"I am not that type of girl," she gave a flirtatious smile.

"And I'm not asking you to be, that you may be," I joked.

"That's a little forward," she raised an eyebrow.

"I was only kidding, Let's just get you upstairs so that go can sleep off some of your drunk and not put yourself in danger getting yourself home,"

"And you don't think me coming upstairs with you would be dangerous?"

THEA

         "Seriously? What are we? 12?" Mark frowned.

"If you don't want to play then don't," I rolled my eyes.

"He'll play," Jackson stated.

"Says who?" Mark turned his frowned towards his friend.

"Say's me, stop being a party pooper," he huffed.

"Can we just stop bickering with each other an enjoy a nice night?" I sighed.

"Doubtful," Charlie was glaring directly at Mark who was frowning back at her.

"Okay fine, think of it this way, playing 'I Never' will give you more information to attack each other with," I reasoned.

"I'm pretty sure he can't become much more of a douche," Charlie shot.

"Funny, because I'm pretty sure I can't imagine you being more of a,"

"Stop," Jackson frowned at his friend.

"Fine, we won't play," I shrugged sinking back into the lounge.

"Now look what you've done, she was nice enough to cook you food on a broken foot and all she wants to do is play 'I Never' and you've upset her," Charlie shook her head disapprovingly.

"Fine, whatever," Mark huffed.

"Way to guilt trip," Jae muttered.

"Who wants to start?" Sam asked.

"Does everyone know the rules?" Charlie raised an eyebrow are Mark.

"Are you asking because you don't?" he retorted.

"Aright, either play nice or everyone can go home," I snapped.

"How about we get you a drink," Jae commented.

"How about you bite me," I sighed.

"Doesn't the whole playing nice thing apply to you two as well?" Jackson questioned.

"No," Charlie and Sam commented.

"Why?"

"Because if these two start being nice to each other the whole world will implode," Sam stated.

"He's not wrong," I agreed.

"Whatever, so are we going to play or not?" Mark asked.

"Sure, why don't you go first?"

"Wait, are we going with 5 or 10?" Jae asked

"5," everyone said in unison.

"Okay,"

Everyone held up their hand, all finger straight.

"I've Never had pink hair," Mark was directing the comment at Charlie, but Jae and I also put a finger down.

"You've had pink hair?" Sam frowned.

"Yeah, after Thea attacked me with bleach, the first time, and my brother decided to fix it," Jae nodded before going quiet, which wasn't abnormal for him after mentioning his brother.

"Sam, your turn,"

"I've Never had a job I needed to wear a suit for," he stated nonchalantly but at least three of us knew that it was a subtle stabbed at Mark for his attack towards Charlie. Mark sighed and folded a finger down, but so did Jae.

"You know what a suit is?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Some of us know how to dress up,"

"Oh, I bet you dress up," I retorted.

"Jackson," Charlie encouraged.

"I've never been in a band," he said slowly after thinking for a few moments. Charlie, Sam, and Jae all put a finger down.

"I've Never ripped of a ninja turtles head and flushed it down the toilet," Jae looked directly at Charlie.

"It was your own fault for liking a lame ninja turtle and for hating on Michaelangelo," Charlie defended herself but folded a finger down anyway.

"Donatello is clearly the better turtle,"

"You're right, he's a great turtle, but he's a sucky Ninja Turtle," She retorted.

"You're mum is a sucky ninja turtle,"

"No shit," she rolled her eyes.

"I've never, been arrested," I interjected, Sam sighed folding a finger down, Jae also folded a finger down but unfortunately for everyone else wasn't capable of also keeping his mouth closed.

"You liar, you've been arrested," Jae was looking directly at me.

"No, I haven't" I frowned.

"Do you not remember last year? On BM's birthday?" he stated.

"I was brought home by the police, I wasn't arrested," I rolled my eyes.

"Only because you somehow managed to talk your way out of it," Sam stated.

"She cried her way out of it," Charlie added.

"Either way, I wasn't arrested. Your turn Charlie,"

CHARLIE

         It would have been so easy to target Jae so that he lost, but my pride and some of my stubbornness decided it would be a better idea to attack Mark instead. In hindsight, I probably should have just targeted Jae and been over with it, but I didn't want Mark to win again and he only had one finger folded. The only problem was that I didn't know him that well.

"I've never, left the country," I was looking directly at Mark but out of my peripheral I noticed Sam, Jackson, and Jae fold a finger. I had momentarily forgotten that none of them were actually born here. I just registered that Mark was American.

"Thanks, bro," Jae frowned at me

"My bad," I shrugged.

"Do you want to reset or just continue on until we have a winner?" Sam asked.

"Let's just continue or we're going to be playing this gave all night," Thea stated.

"Easy for you to say, you only have one finger folded," Jae commented.

"Yeah well you're out so shut up," she retorted.

MARK

         It was clear that she was out to make me lose, so I figured it only fair for me to target her anyone else was just collateral damage. I thought back to her Instagram and tried to remember things about her.

"I've never quoted Lord of the Rings," I stated. Her face went from shock to looking more than pissed off.

"How do you even know that?" she frowned but folded a finger.

"You look like those geeky types," I shrugged. Honestly, she kind of looked like one of those girls who pretended to like something because they thought it was cool, or they heard someone talking about it so she clearly knows everything about it. But I figured if I said that she would just get all pissy again. Not that I think she actually stopped.

"Sam," Thea stated quickly.

"I've never owned a piece of jewellery that cost more than the average of a first car,"

THEA

         Sam was clearly targeting Mark. Though I'm not sure how he would know that, anyone would tell you that he was going to take Charlie's side no matter what. Mark frowned and folded a finger, so did Jackson which surprised me.

"And you're not a trust fund douche?" Charlie raised an eyebrow at him.

"I earnt every cent," he shrugged not taking any offence.

"I'm sure you did," Charlie stated sarcastically.

"How did you even know that?" Mark turned his attention towards Sam.

"Because there is no way that bracelet didn't cost more than my car," he pointed at the diamond-encrusted chain bracelet that Mark was wearing around his wrist.

"Some people have more sense when it comes to money," Charlie commented.

"Thea can you just ask your question so that Charlie over here can lose. Again," Mark asked not breaking eye contact with Charlie. If I asked a question that had Charlie lose I was a little worried she would kill me. So rather than facing her wrath, my brain decided to expel the only question I could think of that she wouldn't have ever of done. In the process though, I didn't think of the fact that Sam might be the only person to fold a finger.

"Yeah, a buffer. I'm not sure if Thea is actually interested in dating me and I don't want to do something stupid if that's the case," I nodded.

"She invited you didn't she?"

"I'm probably not the only one she invited considering she also invited you,"

"I think you're thinking too much into it," he shrugged.

"Maybe I should just tell her I can't make it," I thought out loud.

"You're literally five minutes from her house,"

"So?"

"So, there is no point in turning back now," he shrugged.

"Do you want to see Charlie?"

"Okay fine, go home," he rolled his eyes.

THEA

         "I smell food!" I heard Jae's voice.

"It's not for you," I called back.

"Then why was I invited? Oh my god what are you wearing?" he smirked stopping in the doorway.

"I didn't invite you," I shrugged ignoring his question.

"What did you do to your leg?" BM frowned,

"I definitely did not invite you," I sighed turning my attention back to the pot in front of me.

"Should you be standing?" I heard a girls voice. I turn back to see the girl that was with Sam the other day. She wasn't on crutches anymore and she didn't have a brace so I was assuming she was okay, which wasn't exactly a good thing.

"Um, hi," I frowned.

"Hey, I'm Olivia," she smiled warmly.

"I invited her," Sam nodded.

"I can see that," I stated, picking up my phone to text Charlie.

Thea: So Sam brought his not girlfriend.

"Dude why are you texting me when you can just call out?" Charlie called down the hallway.

"Oh," I heard she mutter.

"Should I leave?" Olivia asked awkwardly.

"I'm sorry, you just caught me off guard. I'm Thea,"  I smiled politely.

"Charlie is that way," I pointed down the hallway.

Sam made his way towards Charlie, Olivia following behind him. BM looked like he wanted to say something but decided to keep it to himself and followed after the new couple. Jae however, just leant against the breakfast bar and smirked at me.

"What?" I frowned.

"How did you hurt yourself?"

"Taste this," I ignored him.

"It must be really embarrassing if you're letting me in your kitchen," he laughed at me.

"Fine don't taste it,"

"Calm Down, I'm coming,"

"You better not be," Charlie stated seriously, walking into the kitchen.

"Ew," Jae and I shivered at the same time.

"Why is he in your kitchen?" Charlie frowned.

"Is that some kind of euphemism?" Jae raised an eyebrow.

"You tell me?" she shrugged.

"Why are you so moody today?" Jae retorted.

"I'm not moody," she rolled her eyes.

"She's tired," I stated, trying not to smirk.

"I'm not tired,"

"And Sam brought an unexpected friend," I added ignoring her comment.

"There are a whole lot of unwanted people going to be here tonight," she snickered.

"I'll leave then," Jae joked.

"Jackson is bringing Mark with him,"

"Who's Jackson?" he frowned.

"Seriously?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, you mean wild and sexy?"

"Go away,"

"I'll leave when you tell me what stupidly embarrassing thing you did to your foot," he challenged.

"She fell over dancing, now go away," Charlie ushered him.

"Rude," he huffed but left the kitchen anyway.

Charlie waited until he left before she said anything. I knew she wasn't happy about the game night, to begin with, but Sam, who should have been her distraction or at least he buffer so she could pretend that Mark didn't even exist, brought his new plaything, and Sam dating generally pissed Charlie off on a good day.

CHARLIE

         "Did you know he was bringing her?" I frowned at Thea.

"What do you think?" she retorted.

"I already hate her," I mumbled.

"You hate everyone,"

"Not everyone," I defended as Mark and Jackson walked in.

"Argh, why?" I groaned looking up at the ceiling.

I already wasn't looking forward to tonight, I was tired and drained and dealing with one person I didn't like was bad enough, but now there were two? I sighed deciding to take my chances with Olivia, at least if I attacked her no one would really care, and Sam wasn't about to defend her. But if I attacked Mark, Jackson was sure to have an issue with it and that would probably upset Thea, not that she would admit that to anyone.

"Why is she so rude?" Mark muttered as I left the room.

"You caught her on a bad day," Thea stated.

"Seems like she's always having a bad day," I bit my tongue so I didn't turn around and say anything.

"Oh my god, what did you do to your leg," I heard Jackson as I walked into the lounge room, where Olivia was lying all over Sam. The visual sight made my blood boil and I turned around leaving the room before I threw a hard object at her.

MARK

         She came walking back up the hallway looking more annoyed than she had when she walked down it 10 seconds ago. What exactly was her problem? It was like she was angry at the world for not being the way she wanted to it be.

"You're back," Thea commented dodging Jackson's question.

"This room makes me less annoyed than that one," she shrugged.

"I can invite Shawn and Doobin over it you like," Thea offered.

The mention of Shawn's name made Jackson frown, I was assuming this was the name of the guy that looked after Thea all night on her birthday, the one that Jackson is convinced she wants to date rather than him. I don't think that was the case though, considering Shawn was a second thought and she hadn't bothered to invite him but she'd invited Jackson.

"Do you want to die," Charlie frowned.

"Why not?" Thea shrugged which deepened the frown on Jackson's face.

"Did you hurt your leg on purpose?" Jackson's inner thoughts escaped through his mouth, as they often do.

This question seemed to be hilarious to Charlie because she burst out laughing. Thea seemed a little stunned by the question but managed to regain her composer and glared at Charlie.

"Not exactly," Thea said slowly.

JACKSON

         She didn't seem like someone who was in that state of mind but her indifference to dying concerned me. I supposed people who were severely depressed usually weren't the ones who acted that way, and it's not like I knew her well enough to determine whether or not she was.

"I think he's concerned at the fact you're cool with dying," Charlie managed to get out once she had finished laughing.

"Oh, god no, I'm not suicidal or anything. I was dancing and got distracted, I fell and broke my foot, I don't intentionally hurt myself, I'm just clumsy," Thea was quick to explain.

"Oh," I nodded slowly.

"Why is everyone down here?" the lanky one with glasses came strolling up the hallway.

"We were explaining Thea's leg," Charlie stated.

"Everyone go down to the lounge room, I'm just going to finish cooking," Thea tried to usher us away.

"Do you have any drinks here?" The lanky one asked.

"Do you really think we need drinks?" Charlie raised an eyebrow.

"Honestly, I kind of want to see her drunk in that thing," he nodded.

"Shut up, " Thea huffed.

THEA

         "Hey, did you guys need help?" Olivia popped her head around the corner. Sam right behind her.

"You know what, drinks aren't a bad idea, let's go," Charlie turned to Jae, picking up her car keys.

"She doesn't seem too happy with me being here," Olivia rubbed the back of her neck.

"She never likes any of Sam's girlfriends," BM commented.

"That's because usually, Sam has terrible taste in girlfriends," I stated not bothering to look away from the pot on the stove.

"I'm standing right here,"

"And I've already told you all to go to the lounge room, it's not like I'm going to let any of you in here to help me cook anyway, I'll call if I need anything," I said.

They all wandered down to the lounge room, except Jackson who didn't seem sure he should leave. I wanted to tell him to go but I was worried that if I did then he would think that I didn't want him here and he would just go home.

I hadn't really dated anyone in a while so I felt like I was out of practice.

"You can sit at the bar if you want," I stated awkwardly.

"shouldn't you be sitting," Jackson commented.

"I mean, probably, but everyone needs to eat, and no one else cooks in my kitchen and there isn't any take away food around here that I want right now. Besides, Jae will probably have a fit if I don't cook," I shrugged.

"No one cooks in your kitchen?"

"No one but me,"

"Not even Charlie?"

"She bakes in here because I hate baking but I do the cooking,"

"Can't she cook?"

"Oh no she can cook, I just prefer to do it, it is kind of my field," I explained.

"Oh," he nodded sitting down at the bar.

"So what distracted you?" he asked.

"What?"

"When you were dancing, what distracted you to make you fall?"

"Just a kid getting himself into trouble, or at least he would be in trouble if he had of gotten caught," I shrugged.

"You didn't tell him off?"

"No one was going to get hurt, he was just having some fun, and he's not my responsibility,"

"Somehow, I don't think you stay out of peoples business that easily," he smirked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I frowned.

"I just think you like to fix things, you can't fix things if you don't know what the situation is,"

JACKSON

         "Are you calling me nosey?" she sort of half frowned tilting her head. It was adorable.

"I'm saying I think you care too much,"

"Care too much?"

"You're currently in the kitchen cooking for everyone while standing on a broken foot,"

"I enjoy cooking and I don't like feeling like I'm broken," she shrugged.

"But you're literally broken," I said a little confused.

"You're broken," she retorted.

She turned back to the stove, pulling faces to herself. I had to try not to laugh at her, but I couldn't stop the smile form across my face. Then I remembered that I wasn't here alone and that Mark was probably sitting a little awkwardly by himself in the lounge room, probably on his phone.

"I'm just going to make sure Mark's alright," I said getting up, she just nodded.

I walked down the hallway and was a little surprised to see Mark engaging in conversation rather than sitting on his phone. He was talking with Sam, while Sam's girlfriend listened politely, BM was actually the one sitting awkwardly on his phone which made me think that he and Thea still weren't on speaking terms.

"Did you want to sit down?" Sam paused when he noticed me standing there.

"No, I'm good, just came to see what you were up too," I shrugged.

"He's making sure I'm not a loner," Mark commented.

"Well clearly you're not," I retorted making my way back to the kitchen.

"I take it, he's fine?" Thea asked.

"Yeah, he's just chatting away with Sam," I nodded.

"Great," she sighed.

"Is he not supposed to get along with Sam?" I frowned.

"Sam is Charlies', that just the way it has always been, it's why she doesn't like his girlfriends. Sam is her person, and she does not like Mark, at all. She's already mad about the whole Olivia thing, and now he's getting along with Mark, Charlie is not going to like that, at all,"

"I don't get why she hates Mark so much," I frowned.

"Really?" she gave me a look.

"He's not actually a bad guy," I defended.

"I'm not saying he is," she shrugged.

CHARLIE

         "Who's paying for this?" Jae asked holding up the basket.

"You are, it was your idea to have drinks,"

"But I'm broke,"

"And I don't drink," I retorted.

"I left my wallet at your house,"

"Of course you did," I frowned shaking my head at him.

"You were in a rush to get out of there, I didn't really have time to think about picking up my wallet," he stated.

"Whatever, let's just pay for them and leave," I sighed as a message came through on my phone.

Thea: So, Mark and Sam are getting along...

"Perfect," I sighed.

"About time someone acknowledges me,' Jae nodded.

"Not you," I rolled my eyes.

"Rude,"

"You have to be my buffer tonight," I told him.

"That sounds gross," he pulled a face.

"But okay," he shrugged.

"Sam's getting along with Mark and I don't want to deal with that on top of him already bringing what's her face,"

" I told him bringing her was a bad idea, and how dare he get along with that douche canoe. Doesn't he know what he said to you?" Jae sided with me. Even if he thought I was wrong he would still side with me.

"Right! You don't see me being friends with people who attack him," I huffed.

"Got your back bro,"

SAM

         The guy wasn't so bad, I was guessing that Charlie had just caught him on a bad day. I'm not going to lie, I did only start talking to him just to get on her nerves, but he didn't seem like a bad guy. The look on Charlie's face when she walked back through the door gave me a small wave of satisfaction, knowing that it annoyed her until I realised that I was me she was annoyed at, but at least it was a reaction I suppose.

"Drinks," Jae spoke when no one else did.

"It's only 3 in the afternoon," Thea frowned, most of the room mirrored her frown, but it was directed at her,

"Since when has that stopped you?" BM raised an eyebrow. His tone was light-hearted so I was guessing he was trying to joke, but he still hadn't acknowledged he had done anything wrong so pretending it didn't happen wasn't going to work with Thea.

"Since when you invited?" she retorted.

"Who wants to play a game?" I asked.

"A drinking game," Jae nodded.

"Is it a good idea to drink with injuries," Olivia looked between myself and Thea.

"I'm not on medication anymore so I'm fine," I shrugged, everyone sort of turned to look at Thea.

"You guys play, I'm going to go and finish cooking. Some people should have food in their mouth so they don't speak," she commented towards BM.

"At least it's food in mine," BM retorted. I don't think he had meant to actually say it out loud. the second the words left his mouth he snapped his mouth shut. Everyone fell silent, the colour drained from Thea's face.

"Dude," Jae gave BM a disapproving look.

"Thea," Bm said, his facial expression looked like he was torn between backing up his statement and apologising.

"Don't," she was trying to keep an expressionless face but anger and hurt slipped through the cracks.

THEA

         I wanted to scream at him to get out, it took all the restraint that I had to not cause a scene, I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of Jackson any more than BM just had and I didn't want everyone to be stuck in the middle of our drama, it wasn't fair for the group to have to pick sides. I wasn't sure who this person was but he wasn't the BM I knew and I was pretty sure whoever he was I didn't want to be friends with him.

BM

         I wasn't sure what to do, I expected her to explode, to yell and scream at me, throw something even. But she just stood there and stared at me like I had slapped her across the face. She took a deep breath and I thought this was it, this is were she reacts, but she just composed herself.

"Thea," Jackson frowned at her.

"I'm going to finish cooking, you guys play without me," she plastered on a smile and turned around leaving the room. Jackson hesitated but went after her, everyone else was silent, I think they were all as shocked as I was about how calm she had just reacted.

"I think you pushed her a little too far," Jae commented.

"You know you've pushed her too far if Jae is telling you," Sam agreed.

"I thought you were her friend?" Olivia frowned.

"He is supposed to be," Charlie shook her head at me.

"Do you think maybe it's time for you to apologise?" Sam raised an eyebrow.

"I think it might be a little too late for that, she didn't even make the effort to react, that's how you know you've hurt her. When she doesn't even have it in herself to retaliate," Jae shook his head.

"Are you defending her?" Sam frowned at Jae.

"Someone has to, her best friend isn't," Charlie snapped at me.

"Alright, I'll talk to her," I stood up.

"Don't force yourself," Charlie snickered.

"Can you just not?" I frowned down at her.

"I would leave the room before more than just Thea is mad at you," Jae warned.

I knew I was being unfair to everyone, especially Thea. I knew I was using her as an emotional punching bag, she had tried to apologise to me for sleeping with Austin, and I knew that really she hadn't done anything wrong, she didn't know he was my friend, and from my understanding, Drew and kind of taken advantage of her insecurity, I also knew back then that he liked her. But everything happened all at once and finding out that I had been stolen from, and being on the brink of losing the business that I have been working so hard towards building had me feeling like I needed to take it out on someone. In my head that someone was Thea because I knew that she would forgive me because she was probably the only person that I could treat like crap to this extent and not worry about losing her.

But it wasn't fair on her, she was hurt and probably really confused at my actions, if I just explained to her what was going on she would understand, she would try to help, but telling her means that I would have to admit and face the embarrassment that I felt about the situation.

JACKSON

         "I'm fine, really," she shrugged.

she didn't seem fine, I mean she was smiling and acting as though she was fine but there was something in her eyes, the light seemed to have dimmed, all of her focus was on the stove, like she was distracting herself. I wasn't really sure why she was putting up with the stuff BM was saying to her. What kind of friend does that?

"Thea," BM walked into the room. She glanced over at him but didn't say anything.

"Can I please talk to you?"

"I don't think that's a good idea," I stated.

"It's okay Jackson, why don't you take those plates through to everyone else?" she pointed at the dishes she had already finished but she didn't look away from the stove.

I was reluctant about it but I did as she asked. I sat down on the couch after I put the plates on the coffee table.

"Did you retreat?" Jae asked.

"BM wanted to talk to Thea, she asked me to bring these in here,"

"She probably didn't want any witnesses to his murder," Sam commented.

THEA

"Look, Thea, about the comment I made," he begain.

"Don't even worry about it," I waved him off.

"No, it wasn't fair of me, I want to explain,"

"BM, stop," I sighed turning to him.

"What?"

"Look, I get it. I get that you don't agree with a lot of my choices, I understand why you were so upset about me and Drew, I should have told you when it happened, and even though I didn't know Austin was your friend I still understand why you were mad about that. What I don't understand is why I deserved to be attacked for it, if you had such an issue with me sex life you could have just pulled me aside and talked to me about it. You didn't need to attack me in front of everyone. I admit that I didn't help the situation by causing scene after scene. But I'm not really sure that justifies your comments," I paused,

"It doesn't, and I," he tried to apologise, but I cut him off. I wasn't finished.

"That being said, I'm tired of fighting with you, I'm tired of being mad and being hurt, I apologised, more than once for what I did. I'm not really sure what else I can do, it's not like I can take my actions back. SO for the sake of everyone else, I think maybe it's just better if we don't talk to each other, I don't want to cause a rift with everyone else so please stay and enjoy yourself, I'll be in the same room as you but lately every time one of use opens their mouth towards the other it turns into a fight so maybe we just shouldn't talk anymore,"

"Isn't that a little dramatic?" he frowned.

"Probably, but I'm tired of fighting and attacking each other," I shrugged.

BM

         "Thea, come on," I frowned. She just shrugged as if to say it is what it is.

"I'll still work at the bar unless you want to find someone to replace me then I'll work until you don't need me anymore, but I can't keep being attacked and attacking you. I'm tired of fighting,"

"Fine," I sighed leaving the room.

"You're alive,"  Jae commented.

"Yeah, give me a call when you guys want to come home. I'm going to head off," I nodded.

"Can't you two just make up already?" Sam sighed.

"I think it might be a little too late for that," I shrugged picking up my phone and keys.

"See you later,"

"Dude, what happened," Sam frowned.

"Nothing, I was going to have to leave soon anyway, I have no one to cover for me at the bar,"

I walked back through the house, I heard footsteps behind me which confused me. None of the boys would come after me.

"Hey, can I get a lift with you?" Olivia was standing behind me.

"Why?"

"Because I don't really want to sit here and watch the guy I'm supposed to be on a date with stare at a girl he is so clearly in love with," she shrugged. she didn't seem mad or upset which was odd.

"Sure," I nodded.

"Thank you for having me, even if it was short-lived," she smiled at Thea.

"You're leaving?" she frowned.

"Yeah, I have a feeling I'm not the one Sam wants," Olivia nodded.

"Sorry," Thea gave a small smile, I wasn't sure if it was directed at Olivia or myself.

"It's fine, we can't help who we like, bye,"

THEA

"Can't we just leave and come back tomorrow?" I sighed.

"No Thea," Shawn sighed.

We had already been sitting here for an hour an half and I still hadn't even gotten an x-ray. Apparently, everyone had decided that today would be the best time to hurt themselves.

I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when a message from Charlie came through.

ChaCha: WHy didn't you tell me Doobin had a puppy?

Thea: Because, attractive guys having animals and raising them right it like 100000000 times more attractive to you.

ChaCha: I see your point.

Thea: Have you seen Lexi yet?

ChaCha: Who is Lexi...?

Thea: Shawn's princess

I replied as they finally called my name. Austin one side of me and Shawn the other helped me up and assisted me in walking over to where I needed to go.

SAM

"You looked stressed," I commented waling into the bar. BM looked like he was on the verge of pulling his own hair out.

"Just a little, do you need something?" He asked not looking up from the paperwork in front of him.

"No, but it seems like you might, what's up?"

"I fired Austin this morning,"

"About time," I nodded.

"So now there is no one to cook and we open in ten minutes," he vented.

"Why did you fire him without having someone to fill his place?" I frowned.

"It was a heat of the moment thing, I wasn't really thinking it through,"

"Why don't you ask Thea to come and cook?" I suggested. He just looked at me with an 'are you serious?' expression.

"I know you're not really talking to each other right now but she will drop everything to help you out and you know it," I shrugged.

"I don't need her help," he stated flatly.

"Can't your kitchen hands cook the food? I mean it's not like they weren't already carrying the entire workload of the kitchen," I pointed out.

"Technically for today that will work," he sighed clearly not thinking of that option.

"Well then do that for today and then you have time to work out what you're going to do for tomorrow," I stated.

CHARLIE

"Do you want anything to eat?" Doobin asked casually slipping a pair of pants on.

"I could eat," I shrugged catching my breath. I wasn't so sure Thea's theory was going to work, but it was fun trying to find out.

He didn't reply, he just smirked at me and left the room. I was so entangled with DOobin that I had forgotten that Shawn could come home at any moment, I wasn't worried about Koosung I know he had classes all day. In a slight panic, I messaged Thea.

Charlie: Are you still with Shawn?

Theo: Yep.

Charlie: How long do you think you can keep him busy?

Theo: Probably the rest of the day, don't rush, we're stuck in the hospital.

Charlie: When you said you would keep him distracted I didn't think that meant you would injure him.

Theo: He is perfectly fine, I didn't do anything to him.

Charlie: ....Did you fall over?

Theo: Why don't you just focus on getting Doobin in and out of your system? I'll message you if Shawn leaves.

Charlie: I'll take that as a yes...

Theo: I faked a fall to distract Shawn who was coming to find you, you happened to be in a room with his brother and no supervision, so you're welcome.

Charlie: Oh so you're fine and wasting their time at the hospital?

Theo: Just go get laid and leave Shawn to me.

Charlie: Nk.

I rolled my eyes stretching out my already relaxed muscles. I slid on my underwear and threw on a shirt making my way out of the room. a small kitten ran across the lounge room towards the kitchen where it stopped at Doobin's feet. It sat down next and looked up at him then meowed.

"Meow," he cooed down at it, I leant against the bedroom door frame and watched the kitten circle his feet. He pulled a piece of whatever meat he was frying in the pan and set it on the bench as the kitten meowed at him again.

"It's hot, you have to wait," he told it softly. It meowed at him again, a little louder this time.

"Did Shawn forget your breakfast this morning?" he frowned setting the spatula on the edge of the frypan and walking to the pantry. He pulled out a small tin of cat food and emptied the contents into the little pink bowl on the floor next to the counter.

"Jesus," I let out a sigh when he noticed me standing there.

"My bad," I smirked.

"I think you're the one that should be wearing the bell," I stated.

"Is that a kink of yours?" I raised an eyebrow pushing off the door frame and making my way over to the kitchen.

"Wouldn't you like to know,"

"Mature," I shook my head.

"So who is this?"

"That's Lexi, she's Shawn's kitten. She only loves me when he's not around,"

"Or because you have food,"

"I can have food when he is around and she doesn't even want to come near me, I swear Shawn thinks I'm mean to her when he's not home," Doobin frowned down at her. She'd finished her food and was back at his feet purring and rubbing up against his ankles for the chicken he had set aside to cool.

"You just attract all kinds of cats, huh?" I raised an eyebrow.

THEA

"Seriously?" I sighed.

"I'm afraid so," the doctor nodded.

"I hate my life," I mumbled.

"I told you," Shawn stated.

"There is no need to rub it in," Austin frowned at him.

"I'm just saying, she wanted to go home and ignore it,"

"Can you two bicker outside? The doctor is trying to speak," I shook my head.

"Sorry," they both mumbled.

"As I was saying, it's a fairly fine fracture but the placement is the issue. You're going to have to wear a moon boot and keep all weight off it for the next 4 weeks, then we'll talk about gradually putting weight back on it. So for the time being, moon boot and crutches, and stay off it,"

"You want her to sit still for 4 weeks?" Shawn raised an eyebrow.

"That's what she needs to do," the doctor nodded.

"She's going to go stir crazy," Austin commented.

"Would you two shut up?" I sighed.

JACKSON

"So, how is this mystery girl going? Are you dating yet?" Jessie asked.

"Not yet, we've only met a few times in person," I shook my head.

I wasn't sure she wanted to even date me anyway, she didn't seem to be looking for something serious and I wasn't interested in something that wasn't monogamous. She was a great person and given the chance I would definitely date her but at the end of the day, we both have to want a relationship for that to be possible.

"So? You're just taking it slow then?"

"We're getting to know each other, we haven't talked about dating yet," I tried to shrug the subject off but she didn't seem to want to let it go.

"Is she crazy?"

"No, she's a great girl, a little bit unpredictable when she's drunk but who isn't? We're just testing the waters so to speak to see if we both want the same thing,"

"Well, if you don't then I'm sure there's a girl out there who shares your values and wants the same thing as you do," she gave a small smile.

THEA

"This is stupid," I huffed sinking into the couch.

"It's also necessary," Shawn stated.

"Oh yeah? Would you sit still and not do anything for 8 weeks?"

"He said 4,"

"He said for to 6 no weight-bearing but 8 to 12 for a full recovery and don't change the subject," I frowned.

"Seeing as dancing in my livelihood I wouldn't really have a choice, if I didn't stay still it would just get worse," he pointed out.

"You're annoying me," I huffed again.

"You're just in pain," he shrugged my attitude off.

"You're a pain," I retorted.

"Chill little lady, we'll just hang out and watch movies, eat junk food, and wait for Charlie to get home," Austin sunk in next to me.

"Did you just call me little lady?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Not if that means you're going to hit me," he gave an apologetic smile.

"Fine, but I want clinkers," I sighed.

"I'm on it," he jumped up from the couch, probably more to retreat from me than to actually volunteer.

"You stay with her and I'll get supplies," Austin took SHawn's keys out of his hand.

"Why does everyone steal my car?" he shook his head.

"Because your keys are always accessible," I shrugged.

He didn't respond, he just sat down next to me. I wasn't going to lie, I enjoyed the company, I mean I if I am being completely honest I wanted my dad, but I usually did when I hurt myself and was in pain. I'm not really sure why it was my dad and not my mum but that's the way it's always been, every time I got hurt when I was a kid or when I was sick I just wanted my dad.

"Charlie should be home soon and then you can kick me out," he stated when I let out a sigh.

Really I was just bored and annoyed at myself, there were so many other ways I could have distracted Shawn and instead, I chose a fake fall which resulted in an actual injury which is going to take weeks to recover from.

"I don't want to kick you out," I stated, I didn't really think that Charlie was going to be home anytime soon, and the longer Shawn stays here, the longer she stays with Doobin and can hopefully get the temptation for him out of her system.

"Can I get you anything?"

"Can you please pass me my phone?" I pointed to the cabinet next to the door.

"Seriously? I meant like getting you a glass of water, or something not in this room," he teased.

"I can get it myself if you like," I started getting up.

"Don't even," he frowned at me getting my phone.

"Am I that boring that you need your phone?" he raised an eyebrow.

"I want to ring my dad," I rolled my eyes at him.

"Really?" He frowned at me.

All I really did was complain about my dad, I mean don't get me wrong I understood where he was coming from but he was always going the wrong way about it, in his defence her was used to giving orders rather than suggestions.

"Yeah," I nodded. He just shrugged and got me my phone.

"I'm going to make a coffee, do you want one?" He asked as I dialled my dad's number. I just shook my head and waited for dad to answer.

It kept ringing, I thought he might be at work and wasn't going to answer but on the last ring, he answered.

"Hey baby girl, can I call you back in five?" He sounded rushed.

"Sure,"

A second later he hung up. I had been handling the pain fairly well up until this point, but him hanging up even though I knew he was going to call me back in a few minutes seemed to smash through the emotional block I had been holding and I started to cry.

"Thea?" I heard Shawns voice seconds after I reluctantly let out a loud sob.

"I'm fine," I choked out.

"What's wrong?" he frowned at me from the lounge room door.

"Nothing," I tried to wave him off, but he just walked over to me which didn't help me stop crying, it just made the want stronger. He sighed placing his cup on the coffee table, sitting down next to me he pulled me into a hug.

"I brought snacks!" Austin burst into the room, holding bags full of whatever he had just bought, up in the air.

"Dude, I was gone like 15 minutes, what did you do to her?" Austin frowned dropping his hands.

"Nothing," Shawn defended himself.

CHARLIE

I stretched out, even with my eyes close my room was way too bright. I frowned, my room was never bright, I peered through one eye and looked around, I shot up when I realised that I wasn't in my room, I was still in Doobin's room, and it was the next day.

I wasn't really sure what to do, what if Shawn was home? I couldn't just walk out there, how would I explain that? I looked for my phone but couldn't find it, I wanted to slap myself when I remembered I left it on the kitchen counter. What if Shawn was home? Isn't not like my phone case wasn't recognisable, it was bright pink with an alpaca phone ring on the back.

I wanted to kill Doobin, why would he let me fall asleep here? Why wouldn't he wake me up? I almost groaned out loud, instead, I froze when I heard Doobin talking. I felt like I wanted to throw up, how was I getting out of here without getting caught? The door handle turned slowly and I panicked ducking under the covers, I'm not sure how that was going to save me from this situation but at least if it was Shawn checking on his brother he wouldn't know what girl was in his bed.

"Are you awake?" I heard Doobins voice, I didn't trust my own and I was scared that Shawn would recognise it, so I just made a noise.

"You can stop hiding, Shawn is still looking after Thea and Koosung didn't come home last night, he won't be home for another couple of hours,"

I hesitantly pulled the blanket down, peering over the top of it I saw Doobining wearing nothing but boxer briefs and a smirk, holding a cup and a plate with what looked like jam and cream covered scones.

"What is wrong with you?" I frowned at him getting out of bed, looking for my clothes.

"Good morning to you too, you're welcome for the tea and breakfast," he didn't seem to be affected by my attitude.

"Good morning? You let me sleep here, what if your brother had of come home? Or Koosung? You think he knows how to keep a secret?" I started getting dressed.

"Relax, Shawn texted me saying he wasn't coming home and that Koosung was visiting his mum, not long after Thea text you telling you Shawn was staying there and that she would explain today. Besides that I tried to wake you up, as you can see I failed," he shrugged.

"Clearly you didn't try hard enough,"

"Or I tried to hard which is why you were so tired," he smirked.

"You're unbelievable,"

"I've heard that before, so, morning sex?" he offered. taking a bite of the scone.

"Did you bake those?" I frowned, please say no.

"Yeah, fresh this morning," he nodded, I dropped my shirt on the floor instead of putting it on.

"Fine, but then I'm going home," I sighed.

THEA

"What did you do?" Charlie frowned at me walking into the lounge room, I smirked at her, it was almost 2.30, which meant she either slept in, which I doubt, or she got laid again this morning.

"What have you been doing?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Stayed at a friend's, had some breakfast, I couldn't say no to fresh scones," she shrugged.

"Did she bake them herself?"

"Yep," was all she said dropping her back by the door.

"Well, now that you've got someone to supervise you, I'm going to make sure my unsupervised brother hasn't destroyed my house," Shawn stated, getting up from the couch where I had been made to stay since I woke up this morning.

"I'm sure he found a way to occupy himself, and I don't need supervision," I frowned realising what he had said.

"Seriously, what did you do?"

"Minor injury," I shrugged.

"She broke her foot, she's not allowed to put weight on it for 4 weeks," Shawn dobbed me in.

"How did you manage that?"

"Dancing," I shrugged.

"I'm off, I'll call you later,"

"Bye, thank you," I called after him.

I waited until I heard the car before I spoke again, once I was sure that he was gone I smirked up at Charlie who just rolled her eyes at me.

"Have fun?"

"Clearly more than you," she retorted.

"Did you bone all night or did you take a break?"

"I fell asleep,"

"Damn, remind me to high five the kid,"

"Don't call him a kid," she frowned.

"Why?"

"Because I just spent the last 36 hours boning him,"

"Clearly not the whole time if you fell asleep,"

"What did you do to your leg?" she changed the subject.

"Nothing, let's go back to talking about you boning a kid," I huffed.

"I gather from your avoidance that it was embarrassing," she laughed.

"I did if covering for you,"

"What?"

"Shawn was going to come looking for you, I had to do something, I had just seen you and Doobin go into a room together, so I faked a fall," I shrugged.

"Faked a fall,"

"The fake fall resulted in a real injury," I muttered.

"I can see that, but to be fair there were plenty of other things you could have done to get his attention," she shrugged.

"Like what?"

"I don't know, taken your shirt off?"

"In the middle of a class?"

"Wouldn't be the first time,"

"That was a sports class and some hoe had just attacked me with juice to try and embarrass me,"

"She should have known you were more than capable of doing that all by yourself,"

"Rude,"

"I'm going to shower,"

"You should probably wash the smell of child off of yourself before people come over,"

"What people," she paused.

CHARLIE

"Well, considering I'm stuck here, and it would be irresponsible of me to go out anywhere I thought that I would invite Jackson over," she shrugged.

"But he's bringing Mark," she tried to mumble.

"Ew, why?"

"I don't know, maybe he feels weird about sitting alone with two girls," she stated defensively.

"Do you want me to see if Jae and Sam want to come by too? We can turn it into a game night ro something?"

"I'll call them,"

"Just tell them not to bring BM," she mumbled.

She didn't mean it though. This was the longest the two had gone without speaking, actually, I think it was the only time in the history of their friendship that the had actually intentionally not talked to each other. Maybe getting them both together in one room would actually help, they would be forced to at least acknowledge each other.

BM

"Yo," Jae answered his phone pausing the tv. I frowned at him, we were literally in the middle of the good part of the movie.

"Dude," Sam sighed.

"What? Oh right, he dies," he waved us off.

"Dude!" Sam and I frowned simultaneously.

"Well he does," Jae shrugged.

"We should know better than to watch a movie with him, he's managed to see them all before we get to them," Sam stated.

"No, I just have Tumblr and twitter,"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm listening," he rolled his eyes at whoever was on the other end of the phone.

"I'll ask, but I'll be there. Yeah, like that will happen, kay, later," he hung up.

"You up for a game night at the girls?" Jae asked, he was looking directly at Sam which gave me the impression that I wasn't invited.

"Well, it's not like there's a point in watching this movie anymore,"

"Oh, you're not invited," Jae shook his head at me.

"Seriously?" I frowned.

"Have you apologised yet?" Sam asked.

"For what?"

"And that's why you're not invited,"

"Well go on then," I rolled my eyes.

"I didn't say you couldn't come, I just said that you weren't invited, I don't care if you come or not, I would actually prefer if you did come along," Jae shrugged again.

"Why? So I can drive?"

"Well that too, but it's highly entertaining for me and I want to see how long it takes for Thea to stab you,"

"She won't stab me,"

"Right, she doesn't stab her friends like someone I know," he smirked.

"Dude," Sam frowned.

"Yeah but I don't have to go to school today,"

"You can get out of the car of you l9ke and go back to bed,"

"No, I'm already awake,"

"Well then stop complaining,"

"Argh, you're so grumpy in the morning," I huffed.

"I have to go and deal with Doobin while trying to not have sex with him,"

"Why don't you just have sex with him?"

"Because he is Shawn's brother and he is 19,"

"He is over the legal age of consent," I shrugged.

"Barely,"

"Well of not sleeping with him didn't work, why don't you just sleep with him a lot until you get bored?"

"That won't work,"

"Why not? That's what you do when you crave something, you have an excessive amount of it and then you get tired of it and don't want it anymore,"

"That... actually makes sense," she frowned.

"Obviously,"

"Except I can't just go sleeping with Doobin while Shawn is there and we can be caught at any moment,"

"Doesn't that kind of make it so much better though, the thought that you could be caught any second?"

"That's beside the point,"

"Oh relax, I'll keep Shawn distracted while you bone his brother," I shrugged her off.

"I'm not going to bone Doobin while Shawn is in the same building,"

"Yes, you are," I rolled my eyes.

"What would you know?" she huffed.

"Can we stop for coffee?" I changed the subject.

"Only if you shut up about Doobin,"

"What even is a Doobin?" I shrugged.

She just shook her head at me.

CHARLIE

         She wasn't wrong, I mean I wasn't' sure how I was going to get Doobin out of my system with Shawn and basically everyone else there. Not that I wanted to be caught at all but I especially didn't want Shawn to find out about it. I've tried to just avoid him but apparently, all that does is make me want to sleep with him more like he's some kind of forbidden fruit.

We got to the dance studio after we stopped so Thea could have her morning coffee. Most of the choreographers were in the staff room, of course, Doobin was also there. I reframed from groaning out loud. I had done a pretty good job at ignoring him the past few days, which as just resulted in me having to use every ounce of self restrain that I have to not just jump him in the middle of my class.

Yesterday he had the nerve to wear a sleeveless shirt and take all of the classes I was teaching that day. at one point he had even taken his shirt off and I had ended class early because I was worried that if I stayed in the room too long with a shirtless Doobin I wouldn't be able to keep my hands to myself.

"Hey girlies," Austin greeted.

"Girlies?" Thea frowned at him.

"Ladies?"

"Ew

"Homies?" he tried again.

"Much better," she nodded.

"You're weird," he laughed at her.

"And you're first," she smiled lifting her camera bag into the air.

"Why me?" he huffed.

"Because you're my favourite," she shrugged.

"Liar,"

"You're the only one who looks awake enough to have their photos done,"

"I can go first," Junsun offered, he probably just wanted to get them out of the way.

"No, you're last,"

"Why?"

"Because you're my least favourite," she smiled sweetly.

"Where do you want me?" Austin interjected.

"Nowhere I should have you," Thea winked.

"BM is already mad at you, can he really get any madder?"Austin laughed and got up from the couch.

"You wouldn't think so but knowing him, probably," she shrugged like it was nothing but her face flashed something different.

The fact that BM wasn't talking to her and had been so cruel to her was killing her. She hadn't really been the same the past few weeks. Not that BM seemed to care. I don't really know why he's so mad, I mean I kind of get it but really I don't know why he's surprised, we were all a little surprised that they hadn't slept together. Knowing they had actually made more sense.

They had spent an entire summer together and we were all pretty sure that Drew had liked her even before she lost all the weight.

"Come on, we'll go to the terrace, the natural light with be better," Thea shrugged leading the way.

"She's not going to be able to focus on her job," Junsun smirked.

"What do you mean?" I frowned.

"Austin isn't wearing a shirt under that denim jacket, he plans to unbutton it," Jinwoo stated.

"You realise she sees you all shirtless all the time, right?" I raised an eyebrow.

"She also has no self-control," Junsun pointed out.

"She photographs shirtless guys as a majority of her photography work, she isn't going to be thrown off just because Austin decided to show off some abs," I rolled my eyes.

BM

         I'd been counting the money carefully the past few weeks, just to figure out whether someone was stealing or just wasn't doing their job properly. After the first week, there was a substantial amount missing so I was pretty sure it wasn't just a mess up on someone's part. So, at the beginning of the week, called to organise someone to install CCTV so that I could catch whoever it is stealing from the bar. They finally installed it yesterday, so now that I actually had a days worth of footage I could look over it and figure out.

So far I had probably skimmed through about half the day and nothing weird or suspicious. Honestly, I wasn't really sure what I was even looking for, I trusted my staff, if I didn't I wouldn't have hired them in the first place, and I'm here most of the day so If someone was actually stealing from me then I clearly wasn't focusing enough on my surroundings. Maybe someone wasn't charging customers properly? It's a substantial amount to be undercharging.

I sighed getting frustrated with the lack of clarity I was getting on the issue. I almost turned the recording off to give myself a break just as I saw what I have been looking for. I'm not sure who I was madder at, myself for not noticing it sooner, or hiring them in the first place. Or at them for stealing from me.

THEA

         "What took you so long? Did you get distracted?" Junsun asked.

"By what?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Austins abs,"

"I've seen better," I shrugged.

"Ouch," Austin pouted.

"I told you, photographing half-naked dudes is most of her job," Charlie stated.

"Yeah, have you seen Yuri?" Jacob nodded smirking.

"Yeah," Charlie and I nodded

"Unfortunately," Doobin mumbled.

"Jealous?" Koosung smirked.

"Of that playboy? No," Doobin rolled his eyes leaving the room.

"You're breaking that kids heart," Jinwoo shook his head.

"He's fine," Jacob, Charlie and Shawn stated. I had to try and cover my laugh with a cough, Charlie frowned at me.

"Who's next?" I changed the subject.

CHARLIE

         I was trying to remember who I was teaching a class with this morning, the schedule had been all over the place lately and honestly I'd been busy worry about other things than focusing on which choreography I was supposed to be teaching. It didn't help that Doobin was in every one of my classes, I wasn't even exaggerating. He was like some super attractive, dangerously addictive, stalker student. I couldn't seem to get away from him and it was getting to the point that I wasn't sure that having a class full of students was going to be enough to stop me from jumping him anymore.

I was on my way to check the schedule when I was pulled into one of the dance rooms. Seconds later my back was against the wall and Doobin's mouth was on mine, his hands on my hips pushing himself onto me. He pulled away without warning and my body et out an objective moan without my permission. He smirked at me knowing he was winning.

"See you in class," he winked walking out of the room. I stood there staring at my reflection in the mirror walls across the room trying to catch my breath.

"There you are," Thea poked her head in the door, the sudden noise caused me to jump.

"Did I just scare you? Are you okay?" she frowned at me, I wasn't normally startled by anything.

"What? yeah, I'm fine," I tried to force myself back into reality.

"Did you just jump Doobin?"

"Did I jump him?" I frowned.

"I'll take that as a yes," she smirked.

"I have class," I rolled my eyes.

"Do you though?"

"I have students to teach, yes,"

"That makes more sense, you're far from classy," she teased.

"Shut up and go take your photos," I sighed.

"I was actually coming to take photos of your collab class with Shawn, but it seems like you were a little too busy coming with his brother,"

"Wait. My collab class is with Shawn?" I felt like my stomach relocated to my throat.

"Clearly you're so busy coming with his brother that you don't even know you're own schedule. This is going to be fun," she smirked.

"Not funny dude," I sighed.

"Maybe not for you," she mumbled leaving the room.

THEA

         I had never seen Charlie so awkward in my life, she couldn't concentrate on the dance steps and forgot the choreography a few time. I didn't really blame her with the way Doobin kept looking at her, I could barely concentrate on taking photos because I was a too focused on the suspense of the two possibly getting caught out or the conversation the Doobin and Jacob were having about Charlie, of course, they didn't use her name so the other girls in the classroom were getting frustrated with hearing a story about Doobin with a girl but not knowing who it was.

"Why don't we take a break?" Shawn suggested giving Charlie a concerned look.

"Yes, let's do that," Charlie agreed, leaving the room. I followed her out, it's not like I was going to get any good shots of students not doing anything.

"You okay?" I asked when I caught up with her, only because she had collapsed into the couch in the staff room.

"No, I want to jump him and the face he keeps making at me is draining all of my willpower," she sighed.

"It's not like you had a whole lot of that, to begin with," I mumbled.

"Not helping,"

"My offer to distract Shawn still stands, it's probably better if you get Doobin out of your system," I commented.

"Don't say his name," she frowned at me.

"Why?"

"What if someone walks in and you're just throwing his name around? Then everyone would know," she rambled.

"Everyone would know what?" Koosung asked walking through the door.

"Nothing," Charlie gave me look to prove her point.

"You really need to get laid," I shook my head.

"I'm not busy," Koosung smirked.

"Your penis is tainted," Charlie retorted.

"The penis and the taint are two different things," Koosung shot back.

"You're all useless," Charlie shook her head getting up from the couch and leaving the room.

"What's up with her today?" Koosung asked.

"No idea," I shrugged putting my camera on the coffee table.

"Oh, can I look?"

"No, don't touch it, I just need to pee," I glared.

"Lame," he huffed.

I just rolled my eyes leaving the room. As I walked past the men's bathroom a hand came out from the door and pulled me inside. A squeak was all I managed to get out, my back was against the wall, the hands that were on my hips were gone almost as quickly as they were there and I was now looking up at a very mortified looking Doobin.

"Oh my god," he shuttered, his face contorted and he made an action that I thought was him dry heaving.

"What the hell?" I frowned.

"I thought you were Charlie," he defended and seemed to dry heave again. I would be offended if I didn't want to do the same thing.

"I'm obviously not Charlie,"

"I can see that, what are you doing here?"

"I was going to the bathroom, you're the one who abducted me," I retorted.

"Because I thought you were Charlie, she just went in there,"

"What are you doing stalking her to the bathroom you creeper? Also, who wants to be made out within a men's bathroom? That's gross," I frowned, retreating out of there and into the women's bathroom where Charlie was washing her hands.

"What's with your face?" she raised an eyebrow.

"You're illegal just tried to make out with me because he thought I was you," my whole body shuddered.

"He's legal," she retorted.

"That doesn't make a difference,"

"Doesn't it? Hmm, a little different when you're on the other side huh?"

"No, it's not actually. I don't want to jump his barely legal penis,"

"Wait, where did he try and make out with you?" she asked.

"In the men's bathroom,"

"Ew," she frowned.

"That's what I said," I nodded.

BM

         The bar was supposed to open in 20 minutes, and no surprise, Austin wasn't here. He was supposed to be here 0 minutes ago to get the kitchen ready, but like usual the kitchen hands were getting everything ready for him. He had been on thin ice for a while now and I had already spoken to him about it.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. Car trouble," he stated casually as he strolled through the front doors.

"Can I talk to you for a minute," it didn't sound like a question and I hadn't intended it to.

"Sure, let me just put my bag down," he nodded.

"Bring it with you,"

"Why?" He questioned.

"Because someone has been stealing, I wouldn't trust your belongings unattended," I watched his reaction but he didn't even bat an eyelid.

I lead him through to my office, I gestured for him to take a seat, he dropped his bag next to the chair he dropped himself into.

"Okay, before you say anything I know you've already talked to me about my behaviour and being late, but I am trying to be better and I do really need this job," he stated.

"Why?"

"Sorry?"

"Why do you need this job?"

"Honestly, for the money,"

"The $10, 000 that you've stolen wasn't enough?" I asked casually.

"What?"

"I've noticed that money has been going missing or not adding up. So I went back through the books and since we've opened $10, 000 has disappeared,"

"And you think I did it?" His tone had gotten defensive.

"I know you did it,"

"You have no proof,"

"I do actually, I had CCTV installed," I nodded.

"It's illegal to install CCTV and not have some sort of signage informing people they're being recorded,"

"It's also illegal to steal, but you're right and that would be why there is a sign on the front door and behind the bar," I nodded.

"There is not, I would have noticed them,"

"You have had verbal warnings, about your behaviour and lack of interest in showing up on time. You were already on thin ice, so just in case it wasn't clear, you are fired and I will be reporting this to the police,"

THEA

I was taking photos of Shawn and Austin's collab class. There was a lot of collab classes today, I think that's half the reason they asked me to come out today. I wasn't sure how the class had managed to learn any of the choreography with the way these two mess around.

"Are you sure you don't want to jump in and learn a few steps?" Shawn asked.

"I'm okay behind the camera, besides I can't really dance," I shook my head.

"Yes you can, you do burlesque which is basically the same thing," Austin stated.

"It is not the same thing, my burlesque routines don't really have any dance structure, I just have to be flirty and sexy. It doesn't require any technique, just a shimmy here and there,"

"Don't downplay your ability, I've seen you perform,"

"So has everyone," I retorted.

"Dude," he frowned at me.

"Now you sound like BM," Shawn also frowned.

"Of relax, it's a joke," I rolled my eyes.

"Just learn a few steps, you do have your one free class voucher thing that we got you for your birthday," Austin encouraged.

I was going to tell them to stop asking because it wasn't going to happen when I noticed Doobin and Charlie out the door sneaking into an empty room. I was assuming Charlie was following my advice so instead, I let out a sigh, turned my camera off and said;

"Fine, but I'm warning you, I can't dance,"

The taught me a few steps with the other students, some of the girls who were clearly only taking the class because of the way Shawn and Austin look bickered to one another while giving me unhappy stares. I had to admit I was doing pretty well, until they wanted us to put all the steps together, rather quickly. Honestly, I probably would have been fine if it was something slower rather than a hip hop class. some parts were manageable but some of them were too fast for me to remember the steps and keep pace.

"Oh honey," Austin laughed.

"I told you," I huffed.

"Charlie has to see this," Shawn stated, heading for the door as Austin tried to teach me the steps to the beat.

I panicked, I knew that Charlie and Doobin were still in that room and if Shawn went looking for Charlie, then he was probably going to find his brother in her and that's not something anyone needs. I couldn't think of anything to say to keep Shawn in the room so instead, I faked a fall, except the fake fall felt like it did some real damage.

I let out a shriek as pain shot through my foot, I was sure that I had heard something pop or snap. I let a few curse words slip out of my mouth while internally cursing myself for getting myself into this situation.

"Let me look," Austin knelt down.

"No, don't touch it," I snapped.

"I can't help you if I can't see it," He frowned at me.

"Austin I swear if you touch me I'll hit you," I warned, the pain was setting in properly and tears were beginning to form in my eyes.

I looked pleadingly at Shawn, I did not want to sit in the middle of a group of judgy girls and cry. I didn't like to cry in public as it was, I definitely didn't want to do it where was right now. Shawn seemed to forget what he was doing and came straight over to me.

"Put your arm around my neck," Shawn instructed sliding an arm under my knees and using the other to support my back.

I wanted to object, I wasn't an infant I didn't need to be picked up. But I was pretty sure that if they tried to help me walk out of here that I would just start crying. I sighed and put an arm around his neck, hiding my face in his chest as the tears started to fall.

"I'll just take her to the staff room and take a look," he told Austin.

"I've got this, just make sure our clumsy little friend is okay," Austin tried to joke.

"Asshole," I choked out.

"Come on you," Shawn started walking out of the room.

He walked me through the building into the staff room where he sat me on the couch. He knelt down in front of me and reached for my foot.

"No," I sobbed.

"Thea I have to look at it," he sighed.

"No, it hurts and if you take the shoe off it's just going to hurt more, what if taking off the show actually does damage?" I rambled.

"Thea, seriously?" he frowned at me.

"What? I don't know I'm in pain," I cried. The initial pain just kept intensifying.

"Fine, I'll go and get Charlie," he sighed.

"No," I stood up to stop him and instantly regretted.

"Why did you do that?" he frowned.

"I don't know," I sobbed.

"Are you going to let me look at it?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Fine," I sighed covering my eyes so that I couldn't see when he was doing it, I knew that if I saw him go to take my show off I would pull away and then he would go and find Charlie and probably find more than he thought he would and me hurting myself will have all been for nothing.

"How is she doing?" Austin came walking in.

"She's only just letting me look at it," Shawn stated.

I felt the pressure release as he pulled my shoe off my foot, there was a sharp pain and I squeaked out which I wasn't very proud of.

"This is so weird," Austin stated.

"What?" I panicked looking at my foot, which had instantly bruised.

"You acting like a girl," He said.

"Don't do that, I thought something was wrong with my foot," I threw a cushion at him.

"There she is," he smirked.

"There is something wrong with your foot," Shawn frowned at me at the same time.

"It looks bad," Austin agreed.

"I think it's broken, but we'll have to take you to the hospital to be sure," Shawn stood up looking around the room.

"I'm sure it's fine, if it's still bad in the morning then I'll go to the hospital," I tried to shrug it off.

"Thea, it's bruised, you're still crying so clearly you're in a lot of pain, and as we speak the swelling is increasing. Were going to the hospital now, not in the morning," Shawn went all parent on me.

"But I don't want to go to the hospital," I mumbled.

"Dude, just take your shirt off, she'll stop talking if she's surrounded by abs," Austin stated.

"You take your shirt off, I need to find a pressure bandage," Shawn frowned at him.

"My abs do nothing for her," he sighed.

"Can we just bandage my foot and take me home?" I asked.

"Sure but we're stopping at the hospital first," Shawn agreed sitting through cupboards.

"Why? It's probably just bruised and sprained. Maybe it's a pulled muscle but I think I fall over enough to know if it's broken or not," I really didn't like going to hospitals, especially not for myself.

"Thea, we're going to the hospital," Shawn stated ad my phone buzzed in my pocket.

"I really don't think it's necessary," I sighed checking my messages.

ChaCha: So, I'm going to Doobin's to test your theory. Keep Shawn distracted for me?

"Thea,"

"Okay fine," 8 sighed again.

Thea: Not a problem.

"Let me just go tell Charlie," Shawn seemed released.

"I would rather you didn't,

"Let's just take her to the hospital before she changes her mind," Austin stated,

"We'll start by stretching, then Mina and I will show you our dance and we will learn the steps bit by bit from there,"

"Doobin, why don't you come up here and show everyone how to stretch properly?" Koosung instructed.

"Shouldn't everyone already know how to stretch?" he raised an eyebrow.

"You and I both know that stretching, and stretching for dancing are different. If you don't want to take on the teaching position then just say so," Koosung retorted. Doobin rolled his eyes but get up anyway.

He stood in front of the rest of the students, gestured for them to stand up and started to stretch his arms.

"This is how you correctly stretch your arm muscles, if you look to your right you will see yourself stretching the arm muscles correctly but mirrored, if you look to your left, then you're not stretching correctly,"

"That kid has such an attitude today," Koosung shook his head.

"Wait until he finds out about the choreographer position," I mumbled.

"Yeah, I'm beginning to think you were right," he nodded.

"I'm always right," I pulled a face.

Once Koosung and I had finished discussing what where we were going to teach from, and everyone had stretched, we drew their attention back to us.

"Okay so this choreography wasn't completely created with a beginners class in mind, so we won't be expecting you to learn the whole thing, mostly just the part in the middle but we'll get to that after Charlie and I show you the routine,"

I tied my hair up on tot of my head and laid down on the floor next to Koosung using his arm as a pillow. I risked a slide glance at Doobin who looked like he was ready to kill Koosung, I had to clear my throat to stop myself for laughing.

Once we were finished everyone applauded, well, almost everyone. Doobin looked more pissed off and Bianca she gave me a judging look. I wasn't sure which entertained me more, actually, that was a lie, Doobin's irritation was the highlight of my day.

"Oh my gosh, you guys make such a cute couple," Alissa cooed.

"They're not a couple," Doobiin stated through clenched teeth.

"Not publicly," another student muttered.

"Okay, enough discussion about whether or not Charlie and I are dating," Koosung winked at me just to get a reaction out of the class.

"Would you stop? are we here to dance or talk?" I raised an eyebrow.

"I don't think you're here to do either," Bianca commented.

"Do you have something to share with the class?" I questioned.

"Not as much as you, apparently," she shrugged.

"I'm going to ignore that insinuation, but if you continue to be so careless with your opinions in my class then you won't be welcome," I stated.

"Very professional," Koosung muttered, but pretty much everyone heard him.

"That's not really how I would describe her," Bianca continued.

"One more comment and you'll be removed from my classroom," I warned.

"I didn't come here to dance anyway. I wonder if all of your colleagues or students know how freely you open your legs? Do they know that you just go around stealing other peoples boyfriends and ruining relationships?"

"Are you done?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Not even close,"

"Please continue," I gestured crossing my arms over my chest.

"The whole time I dated Sam you bullied me and made me look small,"

"Feel small," I corrected.

"See, just like that. You turned him against him so you could have him for yourself because you're a crazy lonely bitter person. I'm surprised you even have friends with how cruelly you treat people,"

"I'm surprised that you managed to say that and only screw up once," I shrugged,

"Did you consider what you were doing to Sam? He was happy with me,"

"Look, I understand you're upset about your breakup. But this is a class, all these students paid to be taught and you standing here discussing a personal matter is wasting both their time and money. If you wish to further discuss your grievances with me then please wait outside, if you wish to learn some choreography then please be quiet unless you have a question directly related to this class. If you don't want to do either of those things, then please leave and stop wasting everyone's time," I swear it almost killed me to be professional about it rather than tearing her down in front of everyone but I wasn't going to let her ruin my reputation here.

"Nice act," she retorted.

"Okay, please leave," Koosung stated.

"I paid for this lesson," she frowned.

"No, you paid to participate in this lesson, instead you're disrupting it and that's not fair on the other students," Koosung stated seriously.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes walking out the door.

"Thanks,"

"She was disrupting the class," he shrugged as if it were nothing to do with me.

MARK

"Whitney," I called.

She walked into the office with a frown on her face, she did that when I yelled for her through the door instead of using a more polite way of calling for her. I didn't really see the point of calling her when she was right outside my door.

"Yes?"

"Can you set up a meeting with the organiser for the charity gala for this week some time, and send Jason up from the finance team, these numbers aren't right, and get HR up here, I want to know what's taking so long with Bit I g a receptionist, " I listed.

"Would you like me to go and get you lunch?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, yeah that would be good," she just nodded knowingly.

"What?" I questioned.

"Nothing, you just get a little hangry around lunchtime," she shrugged leaving the room.

"I don't get hangry," I frowned after her.

CHARLIE

"Wrong," I frowned shaking my head.

"Stop picking on her," koosung mumbled.

"I'm not picking on her, she's wrong I'm trying to help her," I lied.

I had been irritated enough about Alissa being in the evaluation, how she was in my class? I mean I get why Doobin was here, but why was she? Was she following him?

So my irritation towards her came out in what I thought was helpful criticism, in the sense that it helped me get out my frustration. She had looked to Doobin a few times for help because it's not like he was shy about speaking out in class, be he just shrugged at her and looked away.

"Okay, let's break it down, step by step," I stated, we had already done that six times so it was understandable when half of the students groaned about it, she was the only one who kept messing up the moves.

"It's a beginners class guys, we all need to be on the same page," I said, knowing that the rest of the class was also getting annoyed with her. This way I wasn't the bad guy, I was just the teacher trying to help a student.

"Can't we just kick her out of class?" One of the other girls mumbled. It took a lot of effort to stop myself from laughing.

"Hey, we don't put other students down," I stated trying to reframe from smirking.

"We kicked the other girl out who was disrupting the class," someone else commented.

"Isn't there a beginners class for the beginners class?" A guy towards the back asked.

"Okay, why don't we take 5?" Koosung interjected.

Alyssa looked like she was going to cry, there were a few girls behind her mumbling about how she was picked for the choreographer's evaluation, one asked if she was sleeping with one of them. It almost killed me inside to be a teacher rather than agree with them.

"You two, out," I stated.

"Sorry?" One of them frowned.

"Out of my class,"

"Why?"

"We have a no-bullying policy, making comments like that, even if you're joking, can ruin someone's career. I'm not going to have gossiping teenagers in my classroom. This is a beginners class not everyone will be at the same level, you should be supporting each other,"

"I thought she was an advanced student though?"

"Whether she is or isn't, is not the concern here. It's also not your business, and making jokes about a student sleeping with a teacher to get ahead is belittling the professionalism a d undermining the reputation of all the choreographers here. This may just be a class for you, but this is our job, our livelihood and we take pride in it, so, I'll tell you again. Get out of my classroom,"

I wasn't really sure when that had even come from, maybe the fact I didn't have anything solid to kick Alissa out, maybe the fact I was still pissed about Bianca, probably the fact that I had actually slept with a student.

"Are you okay today?" Koosung asked.

"I'm fine,"

"I think maybe you should go home after this class," he gave me a concerned look.

"I have a second class and then I have to go to work,"

"I'll take your second class,"

"No, you won't,"

~~~~~~~

I swear I couldn't get away from him, the second class I had today I was a little relieved to have because I was sure that Doobin wouldn't be in it, it was like the room was sucked of oxygen he strolled on, Jacob right behind him.

"Hey," he smirked. Jacob smacked him in the back of the head.

"Ow," he frowned.

"Stop flirting with the teacher," he reprimanded.

"Go sit down," I stated nosing towards the group of students already sitting on the floor stretching.

I waited a few more minutes for the last of my students to arrive before I stressed the class.

"Hey guys, I hope you remember the choreography from last week, we are going to be carrying on from where we left off," I began, I noticed Doobin and Jacob muttering to each other. I ignored it and continued on.

"We will do a quick recap just to jog your memories, who would like to brave the stage and show us what we learnt last week?" I asked, a few faces paled, a few others looked away, Doobin and Jacob were still whispering away.

"I will," a girl who's name I don't remember, volunteered.

"Come on up," I stated playing the song, I could only half concentrate on when she was doing because o could see Doobin and Jacob in the mirror mumbling away.

"I'm sorry," I paused the song. She frowned looking a little frightened.

"Was I wrong?" She asked sheepishly.

"No, I'm sorry you were fine. Doobin and Jacob, is there something you wish to share with the class?"

"I mean not really, but if you want me to I can," Doobin shrugged.

"Either be quiet and show a little respect to your classmate ore share whatever it is with the class so we can all understand what is so engaging that you fi d it necessary to discuss I'm my classroom,"

"Okay, we were just talking about how attractive you are," he smirked.

"Get out," I sighed.

"You told me to share,"

"And now I'm telling you to get out, I've had enough of rude students today, I'm not in the mood for any more. So out,"

"Told you," Jacob mumbled.

"Both of you," I raised an eyebrow.

"What did he do?" Doobin frowned.

"You were both talking when you should have been focusing your attention towards the student that was standing in front of the whole class. Unless you are talking to yourself, both of you stand up and leave my class,"

"Are you kidding?" Doobin frowned at me.

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" I raised an eyebrow.

He just stared at me stunned for a moment before Jacob ushered him out of the room, but not before apologising. I heard a few of the students mumbling about how I was harsh and mean but it didn't really phase me.

THEA

I pulled into the parking lot to wait for Sam, Charlie had to be at the dance studio all day so she couldn't bring him and BM just sits there with him the whole time feeling guilty so I guess that's why Sam asked me if I could drive him.

I hummed along to the song on the radio, while I waited. I had only been sitting there for 5 minutes when I saw Sam walk out the door of the physiotherapy building. I frowned when I noticed he wasn't alone, he had a short blond girl walking out beside him, she was wearing a knee brace and using crutches so maybe she was just another patient he had started talking to?

He hugged her, giving her his bandaid smile, I let out a sigh. That was the smile he gave girls when he had started dating them, I called it the bandaid smile because he only ever dated a new girl when he was trying to distract himself from Charlie, but she was still there.

He made his way over to the car and got in the passenger's seat without saying any more than a hey.

"So, who was that?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, you say that?" he rubbed the back of his neck.

"No, I've been sitting here with my eyes closed," I frowned.

"That's just another patient," he shrugged nonchalantly.

"Right,"

"What?"

"Just another patient that you're friends with or just another patient you're dating?" I questioned.

"Why? Do you want to date me?"

"What? Ew, no," I frowned.

"I'm offended,"

"I've had no interest in dating you since the first five minutes after I met you when I noticed the longing love for Charlie you had in your eyes,"

"I did not have longing love for Charlie five minutes into meeting you guys," he frowned at me.

"No, you fell in love with you the second you saw her, there was just like five minutes between you meeting her and me showing up," I shrugged.

"How would you know if you weren't even there?"

"Because I know you, so who was she?"

"She's just a girl I've been texting," he muttered.

"You thought you had diverted my attention away from the fact you have a new girlfriend?"

"She's not my girlfriend, she's just not, not, my girlfriend,"

Charlie was going to be so pissed when she found out. Unless she didn't find out, Sam wasn't about to tell her and if I didn't then she wouldn't know. Except if she finds out I knew when she learns about it later, then she is going to be so pissed at me. I could have just left the whole thing alone and then I wouldn't be in this situation.

CHARLIE

I let out a long breath collapsing into the couch, my body was sore and I was drained, mostly emotionally, it had been a very trying day.

Doobin had tried to talk to me after class, that I wouldn't let him back into. Jacob had apologised again before leaving/ I had somehow managed to ignore Doobin and retreated home before I caved. I was sure that the only reason I didn't talk to him was that I was worried about Shawn noticing something going on between us.

The first thing I'd done when I got home was have a shower, Sam and Jae were here and I don't know why but I felt like if I didn't shower Jae would be able to tell that I was fighting the desire to have sex with a 19-year-old all day. He has a really weird sixth sense for other peoples sex lives.

"Whose shirt is that?" Sam frowned.

"Jae's" I shrugged. Who else's would it be?

"That's not mine," Jae shook his head.

"Who else's would it be?" I looked down at the shirt, I had definitely seen it on someone before. I stopped breathing for a moment when I realised who I had seen wearing it.

"You bought it a few months ago," I tried to shrug the topic off.

"I've never worn that shirt before, I'm not sure I've even seen it," Jae tilted his head.

"How many shirts have you bought and never worn? You probably bought it because there was a two for one deal, you never really pay attention to the second item because all you hear is free. Let's be real here, how many items of your clothing that you've never worn, are in Charlie's wardrobe?" Thea stepped in to help me when she realised that the shirt was actually Doobin's.

"You have a point," he nodded.

"Did you just agree with me?" Thea looked mortified.

"Anyway, you can keep that one, it's almost as ugly as Thea," he shook his head.

"Why don't you just choke," Thea rolled her eyes huffing at him.

"I wouldn't want to take your job," he retorted.

"But you do it so much better,"

"I do a lot of things better than you, that, however, is not one of them,"

"Why are you even here?" Thea muttered leaving the room before Jae could hit back at here, not that it stopped him.

"So you can feed me, that is your what you're studying towards,"

"I'm studying to feed people with some class, not someone who would eat a soggy slice cardboard if someone smeared some sauce on it," she stormed back down the hallway.

"Would you two stop?"

"I'll stop when he leaves," Thea huffed.

"I'll leave once you've fed me," Jae retorted.

"I'll feed you something," Thea muttered leaving the room.

"That's why I'm here" he yelled back at here.

"Dude, stop," I rolled my eyes.

THEA

So after Jae and Sam had eaten and left, with some leftovers for BM, I sat down on the couch next to Charlie and debated how to tell her about Sam's new interest. I wasn't really sure how to bring it up, it's not like I could just blurt it out, I mean I could but I probably shouldn't.

"How did Sam's appointment go?" Charlie asked. In an attempt to not blurt it out I had been a little lost in thought, so when Charlie spoke unexpectedly, it scared the truth out of me.

"Sam has a new girlfriend," I word vomited.

"I'm sorry, what?" she frowned at me.

"I mean Sam said that they aren't dating but they aren't not dating either," I clarified.

"How do you know this?"

"I saw them walking out of the clinic together, they seemed pretty friendly, so I asked him about it," I shrugged.

"She's not Beunka, so that's a start, I guess," Charlie stated.

We don't always have a position available so usually the evaluation is groups of students that are in the more advanced classes, it's a good way for us to keep an eye on who we want when there is an opening and it gives the students an opportunity for individual feedback and tips on who they can improve if necessary.

"Morning," Austin hurried towards the exit.

"Where are you going? We start monthly evaluation in half an hour,"

"I lost track of time and then fell asleep, I've been here all night and Mary needs breakfast, I'll be back in time," he waved me off.

"Hey," Koosung winked following after Austin.

"You're leaving too?"

"I'm driving him," he nodded and they both left.

Mary was his cat, and I was pretty sure that if anyone pampered the cat as much as I did, it was Austin. He adored Mary and was always buying her things, one year he got her flowers because she was his valentine.

I shook my head making my way towards the Choreographers lounge, which was really just our staff room. It was a little more modern than what you would expect from a normal staff room, but most of us spend a lot of time here so May J Lee and Bongyoung had made sure that we had a nice place to unwind and relax.

I wasn't expecting anyone to really be in there, most of them would either be on their way in or setting up the dance room for the evaluation. But as if the cosmic universe was laughing at me, Shawn and Doobin were sitting at the table together, Shawn was eating cereal and it looked like Doobin was just in here to bother him. Or was it just me that he bothered?

"Morning," I nodded walking in, putting my bag down on one of the chairs.

"Okay, other people are here, time for you to go," Shawn ushered his brother out. Students weren't technically allowed in here but most of us just overlooked it when it was Dooin because he was Shawn's brother. Shawn however usually kicked him out when other choreographers came in.

"It's just Charlie, she doesn't mind if I stay for a while, right?"

"Shouldn't you be stretching for the evaluation?" I raised an eyebrow.

Usually, I wouldn't care that he was in here, but given the fact that he was once again sleeveless and that I was still trying to avoid him like the plague. Also, the fact that his brother was in here, I didn't really relish in the idea of him sticking around.

"I've already stretched," he shrugged,

"I think that was her politely saying get out," Shawn stated as he spooned cereal into his mouth.

"Seriously?" he raised an eyebrow at me.

"Seriously, go stretch. You wouldn't want to mess up your routine because you didn't warm up properly. Especially when a choreographer position is on the table," I nodded.

"Go on, out you go," Shawn gestured towards the door. Doobin rolled his eyes but got ups from the table and left the room.

"That was kind of rude," Junsun called over the couch.

"What?"

"He's your brother, you don't need to kick him out. He's a good kid,"

"Right," Shawn pulled a face I tried not to laugh at.

"Are you an only child?" I questioned.

"Yeah,"

"I thought so," I nodded.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he frowned at me.

"It means that siblings are beyond annoying, and you don't really understand it unless you have them," I shrugged.

"That's a nice way to put it," Shawn nodded.

"How would you put it?" Junsun asked as Jinwoo entered the room.

"It's kind of like having kids of your own to look after but they're not your kids and you have to parent them anyway because their actual parents don't want to anymore, I'm pretty sure that's the only reason people have more than one child," Shawn stated.

"You love your brother," Jinwoo stated sitting down at the table.

"That doesn't mean I have to like him," Shawn shrugged.

"Are you voting against him today?" Jinwoo asked pulling an apple out of the fruit bowl in the centre of the table.

"I haven't decided yet,"

"Bro, come one, he is one of the best dance students we have, the kid has talent. You can't keep voting against him just because he's your brother," Jinwoo stated.

"I can't vote for him just because he's my brother,"

Doobin had come up a few times during the last couple of monthly evaluation meetings,  and basically, everyone wanted to bring him on board but Shawn, who always voted against him. I'm not sure if it was because he didn't think Doobin was ready for that responsibility or if it was because Shawn wasn't ready to give it to him. Either way, Doobin would have been on the payroll months ago if Shawn had of allowed it. Not that Doobin knows this, I don't think it would go down well if he found out either.

"Seriously?" Jinwoo frowned.

"Shawn has a point, it's not like the other students don't already think he gets special treatment because he's Shawn's brother," I pointed out.

"Which is funny because he's the hardest on the poor kid," Junsun mentioned.

"There is a reason for that," Shawn commented.

"You're a hardass?" Jinwoo smirked.

"When has he ever been a hardass? Is like 2 foot tall and has the most adorable smile," Thea smiled walking in the door.

"Coming from the midget herself?" Junsun shot back.

"What are you doing here?" I frowned.

"Shawn forgot his phone, I thought I would drop it off on my way into work. Also, I brought coffee,"

"Are you two a thing?" Junsun raised an eyebrow.

"We sleep together," Thea shrugged.

"We're not dating if that's what you mean," Shawn stated.

"Oh good because you can do so much better,"

"Sure, let's pretend you know what standards are," Thea retorted.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Junsun frowned.

"I'm off, or I'll be late," she waved leaving the room.

"Why are you friends with her," Junsun frowned.

"She's not," Shawn stated.

"Right, you're related. I feel bad for you,"

"You slept with her," I pointed out.

"Not by choice,"

"Oh, she forced herself on you?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Can I say that she did?" he seemed to contemplate the idea.

"Stop picking on her," Shawn rolled his eyes.

"Ew, do you like her?"

"I don't not like her, I would date her if..." Shawn was cut off by Junsun.

"If she hadn't of slept with everyone you work with?" he offered.

"I was going to say if she was interested," Shawn frowned at him.

"No, you can't date her," I shook my head.

"Why?" Shawn frowned confused.

"Because if you two date and break up it won't be a pretty break up  and I will still have to work with you,"

"But they can sleep together?" Junsun frowned.

"Having sex doesn't mean they have feelings, there is no commitment and no jealousy. Besides, you dance with too many girls to date Thea, she is crazy,"

"And Thea sleeps with too many guys,"

"Dude," Shawn frowned at him.

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"The room is ready," Emma, one of our receptionists, poked her head into the staff room.

"Thanks, Em, " Austin returned her smile.

"Let's do this," Koosung stood up.

"Do we have too?" Junsun sighed.

"Yes, we need a new choreographer," Jinwoo nodded.

"Can't we just pick a name out of a hat?" Junsun continued to whine.

"I mean we could but then there would be complaints about how it was unfair. Besides this is the only way we can be sure that we get the best candidate,"

"I just don't want to have to watch your candidates botch their choreo, it's just sad," he shook his head.

"We'll see about that," Shawn stated.

"Anyone care to make it interesting?" Austin suggested.

"How so?"

"The person who has the candidate with the lowest score has to pay for lunch?" he shrugged.

"Deal," most of them agreed.

"Okay, let's go," I shook my head.

"Are you scared you'll lose?" Junsun raised an eyebrow.

"I know I won't lose but I also don't see the point in gambling on children,"

"You're such a buzz kill," he pulled a face leaving the room.

"Awe, you don't kill my buzz," Koosung slung an arm over my shoulder.

"You kill mine," I shrugged him off.

"Are you seriously still mad?" he whined.

"Yes,"

"But why?" he continued to complain as we left the staff room.

I noticed Doobin in the hallway, pressed up against one of the other students, his tongue down her throat. Rage bubbled in my stomach.

"This is a dance studio, not a brothel. You're here for an evaluation of your dance skills and ability to teach a class, not make out with one another," I snapped.

"Sorry," the girl mumbled with a frown.

"Oh relax," Doobin rolled his eyes.

"You're first," I stated.

"Fine,," Doobin shrugged.

"Not you, her," I pointed at the girl.

"Someone is grumpy today," Jinwoo commented.

"Didn't sleep enough?" Austin asked.

"Are we here to question my sleep pattern or to find a new choreographer?" I raised an eyebrow walking into the dance room.

Emma and a few other reception staff had set up the dance room for evaluations which really just meant that there was a line of tables for us to sit behind and score the dancers. There was ten of us so there were also ten dancers, today was a little different from their normal evaluation because we were seeking a new choreographer which meant this were a little harder. We scored them differently and the had their backs to the mirror wall so that they couldn't wa text themselves. We noticed a lot of dancers never practised without the mirror which threw them off focus when they had to perform on stage.

Once we were all seated and settled, I got up to bring in our first dancer. Only because I didn't know her name so I could call her in and none of the boys wanted to get in the way of my apparent bad mood.

"Okay, you're first," I pointed at the girl who instead her face invaded by Doobin's tongue.

"I'll go first," Doobin offered.

"No, she will, " I stated seriously.

I would have felt a little bad for the girl if I wasn't so annoyed. She looked like a deer caught in headlights. She was practically shaking, but due to the fact she was just making out with something that is mine, I didn't really care.

I walked back to my seat without looking at her. The boys frowned at me, which I just shrugged off.

"Name," I asking without looking up.

"Huh?" she squeaked. I looked up at her, she looked terrified.

"What is your name?" I repeated slowly.

"Oh, Uh, Alissa," she stammered.

"Well, oh, ah, Alissa, show us what you've prepared," I stated in the most emotionless tone I could manage.

"Oh, okay," she nodded turning around. One of the reception staff started the music. Alissa began dancing but didn't turn around. I signalled for the Receptionist to cut the music.

"Oh, what happened?" Alissa frowned.

"Why are you facing the mirror and not us?" I asked.

"Um, well I focus better when I'm watching myself," she mumbled.

"You do realise that you're essentially auditioning for a teaching position? How are you supposed to teach a class of students when you have to focus on yourself?"

"Why don't you just try again, this time facing us?" Austin offered kindly.

"Why bother? It's fairly clear that she has only practised while facing the mirror,"

"Dude, you're scaring her," Junsun frowned at me.

"Maybe your legs are scaring her," I retorted.

"Enough, everyone is quiet. Alissa, try again. Music," Jinwoo stated.

"You be quiet," I mumbled.

Alissa began dancing again, I didn't say anything until she had finished, instead, I just noted things down. Like when she misstepped or paused because she forgot her choreography. She almost tripped over her own feet twice and the whole time she was either looking at her feet or worrying about what I was doing.

"Comments?" Jinwoo asked.

"I think that you made a few mistakes but clearly you're nervous, I've seen you in class and normally you're a lot better than today," Junsun stated.

"Look, I understand that you're nervous but it's clear that you only practise in front of the mirror. I would work on practising without the mirror so that you'll become more comfortable in your steps," Austin added.

"Is this your first time being evaluated for a choreographers position?" Shawn asked casually.

"Yes,"

"Well, it was too bad for a first attempt, I don't really have any other comments that haven't already been said, good job," he nodded.

"I'm scared to ask, but Charlie?" Jinwoo asked.

"I think that this isn't Dance Dance Revolution and if you were coming in here expecting the choreographer's position then you should have been more prepared," I commented without looking up.

"Thank you, you can go," Jinwoo stated.

"Could you have been harsher?" Austin asked.

"Yes," I shrugged.

"Someone needs to get laid," Junsun commented.

"Well good thing it's not you because you won't be getting any," I retorted.

"Neither are you by the sounds of it," he muttered.

"Annie, can you send Doobin in next please," I ignored his comment.

"Why Doobin?" Shawn frowned.

"Because he was next in line," I shrugged.

"Yeah, we should probably get you criticising your brother out of the way sooner rather than later," Koosung commented for the first time.

"I'm more worried about the criticism that's going to come from Charlie, she's a bit moody today," Junsun stated.

"To be fair, the criticism towards Alissa, though it was a bit harsh and slightly hostile, it wasn't wrong. I don't know which one of us picked her but she was not prepared for something like this," Koosung defended me.

"Don't defend me," I frowned as Doobin made his way in.

"Name," I asked.

"You know my name," he raised an eyebrow.

"The camera doesn't," I pointed towards the tripod.

"Doobin," he replied flatly.

"Music," I stated.

Doobin frowned at me and missed his cue. I raised my hand to signal they stop the music. I head one of the boys sigh at me.

"Are you going to dance or just stare at us?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Who pissed you off today?" he retorted.

"Doobin," Shawn frowned.

"I was just asking, students don't normally leave this room in tears," he commented.

"Why are you focusing on another students reaction to feedback rather than focusing on actually dancing yourself?" I questioned.

"Like you haven't seen me dance before,"

"If you don't wish to audition, then please leave and stop wasting our time," I snapped.

"Can we have the music back please," Austin stated before Doobin could retort.

Doobin rolled his eyes but started to dance to his music. Everyone at the table seemed fairly impressed with his performance. But unlike everyone at the table I had seen that routine several times, enough times to know that some of his timing was off and that he wasn't putting the effort into it that he normally does.

The song finished and one by one all of the choreographers complimented him, including Shawn which shocked everyone else, especially Doobin.

"Charlie?" Junsun asked, honestly I think he was just getting a kick out of my criticizing of other people.

"Your timing was a bit slow and I felt like you kept it too basic, I think he is capable of more difficult moves but instead you appeared to be performing a routine from a beginners class," I stated without even looking up at him. I didn't really need to look up to know he was annoyed though.

"Jesus," one of the boys mumbled.

"Thank you, can you send in the next student?" Jinwoo thanked him.

"I think we should be removing someone before she makes every candidate cry," Austin commented.

"Austin, shut up," I frowned at him.

That's basically how the rest of the evaluations went, someone came in, danced horribly and I gave my opinion. Honestly, none of them seemed good enough to bring on board as a choreographer. Except Jacob, he came in a danced better than the rest of them.

"Are you kidding me? The one time Shawn agrees with the rest of us about Doobin being ready to be brought on as a choreographer and you're against it? That poor kid can't catch a break," Austin frowned.

"Okay, ignoring Charlie's opinion, what does everyone else think?" Jinwoo asked.

"I think it's going to have to be between Doobin and Jacob, they were by far the best two," Koosung stated. Everyone else seemed to agree with his opinion.

"So how do we decide between the two?" Eunho asked.

"We hear Charlie out, everyone else seems to think they both deserve the position. Why do you think Jacob should get it and not Doobin?"Jinwoo asked.

"Jacob danced well, he gets along with all the students and the other choreographers and he has a natural ability to teach," I shrugged.

"And Dobbin doesn't have any of these qualities?" Shawn frowned.

"I didn't say that," I shook my head.

"Then why are you against Doobin today?" Austin asked.

I couldn't exactly say that I was being a little petty sure to the fact he was making out with a random student with absolutely no talent in the hallway.

"Look, he has the talent and is more than capable of running a class. But I think that he has a little bit more maturing to do before we should give him that chance. Let's be honest here, he can have a bit of an attitude, especially when someone says something to him he doesn't like, his attitude earlier proved that," I shrugged.

"You were being a bit of a moody biatch though," Junsun stated.

"Even if Charlie was being a little harsh he shouldn't have commented like that, he is still a student and he should take the criticism without an attitude," Jinwoo agreed.

"Mmm, I would hate to see what would happen if he had a disagreement with a male student," Shawn nodded.

"He's not stupid, he's not going to fight a student, not if he's in a position of power," Austin defended.

"Do you think he would sleep with a student?" Junsun asked. I clenched my teeth to stop myself from commenting.

"He doesn't sleep with them now," Austin pointed out.

"He was making out with one as we walked in here," Jinwoo pointed out.

"Yeah, probably to throw her off her concentration, I'm sure he would have made out with Jacob if he'd thought it makes a difference," Austin continued to defend.

"So, we have a decision?" Jinwoo asked.

***

"Can we get on with classes now?" I asked from the couch in the staff room.

I had been sitting in here being picked on for being so harsh on the students. I think they were just mad that Jacob was getting the position over Doobin.

"Let's go," Koosung nodded.

"What?" I frowned at him.

"We are teaching the begginers class today,"

"No, our begginers class isnt until next week,"

"It was next week, then we switched with Austin,"

"Since when?"

"Since last week, Austin's mum is flying in today, you don't remember this?"

"This is literally the first I'm hearing about it,"

"She wasn't there bro, you said you would talk to her about it and then changed the roster,"

"Whoops, clearly I forgot," he gave me a nervous laugh.

I sighed. I wasn't exactly a fan of beginners classes, but on the plus side, neither was Doobin so at least I wouldn't have to deal with him.

"Fine, let's go," I rolled my eyes.

"Are we sure she should be teaching a beginners class today? She was harsh to our advanced students," Junsun commented.

"Your shorts are harsh on our advanced students," I retorted leave g the room.

"Are we doing the same class as we would have next week? Choreo wise?"

"Unless you have another set," he shrugged.

"No, that's fine," I shook my head.

There was a substantial line outside the classroom, then again there normally was when it was a collab class with me and Koosung. Apparently, the students loved our chemistry, a lot of them had bets running to see how long until we date, some are sure that we're already dating. I'm sure they would all be disappointed if they were to find out that that is never going to happen.

"Come in guys," Koosung swung the door open.

I stood next to him as I watched the students walk in. Doobin smirked walking past.

"What are you doing here?"

"I asked Koosung if I could assist, It would be good for me to learn how to teach, don't you think?" he stated.

"In," Koosung ushered him inside.

Alissa followed behind him which sent my rage levels rising, then I saw a face that sent them through the roof.

"Stop," I put my hand out before she could walk into the classroom.

"Charlie," Koosung frowned.

"What?"

"You can't just stop students from walking in,"

"I can if I know her,"

"You know her?" Koosung looked at the tramp in front of me.

"Unfortunately," she rolled her eyes.

"Why are you here?" I snapped.

"Dancing looks good on a model resume," she shrugged.

"Then go to someone else, you're not coming into my classroom," I stated.

"I already paid, for 3 classes," she smirked.

"Then get a different teacher,"

"Charlie," Koosung hushed.

"What? She's Sam's crazy ex-girlfriend. The psycho probably stalked me here,"

"You think too highly of yourself," Bianca retorted.

"You know what? Fine, why don't you join the other students? Just remember that you're a student, and I'm a teacher and I don't tolerate rude comments. If you don't behave you will be asked to leave," I stated.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes.

"Look, I don't know what's going on between you but the second you walk through that door you're to show the teachers nothing but respect," Koosung backed me up.

"Sure thing, teach," she battered her eyelashes stroking his arm.

"I'm going to kill her," I stated through clenched teeth.

"You can't kill a student," he frowned at me.

"She won't be able to keep up with basic moves, hopefully, she'll trip and kill herself,"

"She can't be that bad,"

"If you don't want me to cold-shoulder you again, don't take her side," I warned.

"You really don't like her huh?"

"No,"

"Are we going to start the class or are you two going to keep flirting out here?" Doobin poked his head out the door sounding less than pleased which actually made me more than pleased.

"Kind of," Doobin said as the same time Austin commented;

"He made bacon and eggs," with what sounded like a mouthful.

"Wait, s that hangover soup?" Thea asked clearly ignoring Austin.

"Your pantry looks like a Korean grocery store, what did you expect me to do?"

"Okay, you're cool,"

I stretched getting out of bed, Yuri was still fast asleep which wasn't a surprise. Sora was curled up between our heads, she glared at me when I turned the light on to find my pants. She wasn't a fan of the light in the morning.

I walked out of my room and Shawn was coming out of Thea's, he wasn't wearing a shirt, he looked like he was still half asleep, he half smiled and gestured for me to go first, I wasn't so sure I wanted to if Doobin was in the kitchen, I was a little worried that Doobin would pull a face and Shawn would see it.

I tried to avoid looking at him as I walked through into the dining room, Austin was sitting at the table with a plate with eggs, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, what looked like a sausage, and baked beans, all piled on top of two pieces of toast. Thea was leaning over the counter watching Doobin move freely through our kitchen cooking away.

I frowned at her, she never lets anyone in 'her' kitchen, I swear half the time she barely lets me in there and now she has Doobin cooking awake like it's his kitchen. Ignoring the fact that sometimes she kicks other people out of their own kitchen.

"Morning," Thea greeted.

Doobin looked over and gave me a vaguely irritated look, I was assuming it had something to do with last night. Shawn and Austin had taken Thea to bed after a struggle and some tantrums from THea,  anyone who hadn't left ended up sleeping in the lounge room, also due to Thea, she didn't want the party to end and insisted that those who weren't drinking because they had to drive home could just stay here. It didn't take a lot of convincing.

Doobin had taken the opportunity of his brother being distracted with Thea to head to my room, he wasn't so impressed with the fact that it was already occupied by Yuri, he was even less impressed by Yuri's offer of a threesome. Instead, he slept in the lounge room with everyone else.

"Were you hungover this morning?" I frowned.

"When am I ever hungover?" she frowned.

"Then why is someone else in your kitchen? And why are they cooking?"

"He cooks right, he's making Asian food," she shrugged.

"And why is he naked?" I added.

"He has pants and an apron on," she said after a slight pause, clearly not realising he wasn't wearing a shirt before now.

"It's summertime, it's hot. Why would they be wearing a shirt? Did you wear clothes to bed?" she defended.

"That doesn't count, she got laid," Yuri came up behind me, winking at Doobin who frowned and turned his attention back to cooking.

BM

"Are you both just going to sulk around here?" Jae frowned at us.

"I have no reason to go over there," I shrugged.

"I don't feel like going out,"

"Liar, you're mad Charlie is sleeping with Yuri," he frowned at Sam.

"We both know it would have been you if you weren't injured, so you only have yourself and BM to blame," he added.

"And you're being a child about something that happened years ago,"

"She slept with my friend," I defended.

"Charlie slept with my friend, you don't see me getting my panties in a knot," he rolled his eyes.

"She kept it a secret,"

"Because no one wants to admit that they slept with Drew,"

"Just take my keys and drive yourself over there," I frowned.

"Fine be bitches," he huffed leaving.

I looked over at same who had slouched himself into the couch, his head resting on the back of it facing the ceiling, his eyes were closed. He'd been like this since we left last night, maybe before then. If I was to guess he has probably been like this since Charlie slept with Jae's bass player, which meant he was already too far along in the Charlie coaster to actually stop the rid. But that didn't mean he couldn't be distracted from it.

"What?" he asked without opening his eyes.

"How are you doing?" I asked casually.

"My shoulder hurts,"

"Uhuh, so you're not actually annoyed that Charlie slept with Yuri, or Jae's bass player, instead of you?"

"WHo she sleeps with is her business,"

"You know, if she's sleeping with other people, there isn't anything stopping you from doing the same,"

"I know you're trying to help, but I don't need you to so can you please stop," he sighed.

"I'm just saying, it's not healthy to be stuck in a one-sided relationship your whole life,"

"If you keep judging all of our choices and feelings you're going to have no friends left," he gave me a look before getting up.

THEA

"Thea," Charlie raised an eyebrow at me.

"Huh?" I looked at her.

"What are you doing?" she smirked already knowing exactly what I had been doing.

I hadn't realised that Doobin wasn't wearing a shirt until she had said something about it, not I kept getting distracted by his back. Seriously, dancer bodies were so unfair.

"Making sure he doesn't screw up," I shrugged.

Doobin turned around frowning at me, I had to bit my tongue so I didn't tell him to turn back around because I was looking at his back. I didn't quite understand why it was so difficult for Charlie to not sleep with him until right now, I don't really think I should be keeping her from that body. Even if that's what she wanted me to do, she was clearly getting too stuck on his age and it's not like he wasn't old enough to consent.

"Turn around, you're the exact same and you know it. He throws a tantrum when you've cooked in his kitchen. He refused to cook in it all day because he claims you screwed with his Feng Shui,"

"And then I have to starve," Koosung came wandering up the hallway fully clothed which was disappointing.

"Why are you all half-naked?" he raised an eyebrow at Yuri, Austin and Shawn, who were sitting at the kitchen table eating shirtless. There were absolutely no complaints from me.

"Because it was hot and suits aren't comfortable to sleep in," Austin answered.

"Your shirt was sleeveless and he was the only one wearing a suit,"

"Koosung, shut up and have some breakfast," I stated.

"Perve," he retorted.

"No one is stopping you from taking your shirt off, that outfit would be really attractive with no shirt and the sleeves of your jumpsuit tied around your waist," I commented.

"Morning," Jinwoo wandered through wearing exactly that, no shirt and the top half of his jumpsuit tied around his waist to stop the bottom half from falling off.

"Like that," I nodded.

"Is this why you are friends with just guys? So you can check them out?" Austin asked.

"It doesn't hurt," I shrugged.

"Sup homies," Jae walked through the back door.

"Why aren't you cooking?" he frowned at me.

"Doobin is cooking," I shrugged.

"No, I did not drive myself over here for some kid to easy bake oven my breakfast," he shook his head.

There was a chorus of 'Hey' and 'he can cook'. Doobin looked less than impress being referred to as a kid and annoyed at the insult to his cooking ability. Not that Jae cared if he insulted someone, it was his favourite pastime.

"If you don't want his cooking then get back in the car and drive yourself home," I retorted, he just pulled a face at me sitting down at the table.

"Can you lower your voice?" Junsun grumbled walking through the house, unfortunately, he was wearing a shirt, but even more tragically he wasn't wearing pants.

"Can you put on pants before you sit down on our dining chairs," Charlie frowned at him.

"Shhh," he frowned at her waving his hand sitting down across from her.

"Hangover first aid is on the table," I laughed.

"Hangover first aid is anywhere you aren't" he frowned.

"Rude," I retorted.

"It's your fault we're hungover," Koosung reentered the room after using the bathroom. he was shielding his eyes and rubbing his temples at the same time.

"You're grown-ass adults, you can make your own decisions," I picked up my phone to message Jackson. He didn't seem to stay long last night, I only saw him when he arrived and then at some point he must have just slipped out without saying goodbye.

Thea: Hey, sorry about last night I wasn't trying to be rude there were just a lot of people. Why did you leave without saying goodbye?

"You're a grown-ass adult, you should know when to stop drinking," Koosung retorted joining the other boys at the table, each one varying in the severity of their hangover.

CHARLIE

Jae opened his mouth to speak, I was assuming it was something about Thea's height, but Junsun seemed to beat him too it.

"I wouldn't say she's grown exactly, she's like two feet tall," he mumbled.

Jae frowned, I don't think he was okay with someone else attacking his nemesis, especially with an insult that was probably about to come out of his own mouth.

"How about you shut up?" she stated.

"I thought you were supposed to be the kitchen troll? Why is Doobin doing your job?"

"Is your hangover making you grumpy?" she patronised.

"How can someone so small drink so much and be completely fine in the morning?" Koosung shook his head.

"It's because she's so little, clearly it takes less time to metabolise,"

"Where did you learn such a big word?" she retorted.

"Play nice," Shawn gave her a look.

"Why are you on his side?" she frowned.

"Bros before hoes," Junsun muttered.

"I'm not taking sides, but he is hungover because you convinced us all to keep drinking with you even after everyone else went home," Shawn stated. He didn't really have a hangover, but he had also babysat Thea all night.

"You should probably stop drinking, you turn into way more of a mess than normal," Junsun advised.

"Says the guy who is sitting at a kitchen table hungover, not wearing pants," Jae stated. He had continued to frown the whole time Thea and Junsun had bantered back and forth.

"It's hot,"

"Most guys take off their shirt, as shown by everyone else here, you decided to take off your pants, normally that's what the girls do, what with them having boobs,"

"Jeans make me uncomfortable,"

"Your legs make me uncomfortable," he retorted.

THEA

The two continued to bicker back and forth, I sat down next to Charlie.

"How early did Jackson leave last night?" I frowned checking my phone.

"Do you really want to know?" she gave me a face.

"I really don't like it when you pull that face," I sighed.

"Is it that time already?" Jae's face lit up.

"Crap," I sighed again closing my eyes.

"Is it what time?" Austin asked.

"My favourite part of the morning after a night of drunk Thea. I like to call it 'Thea's Entertainingly Embarrassing Drunken Event Recap' or TEEDER for short," Jae was like a kid n a candy shop.

"Can we just skip over the TEEDER?"

"No, no we can not. I got out of my bed for two things this morning, breakfast, and TEEDER. As you can see, my plate is full of breakfast," he smirked.

"I hate you," I sighed.

"We were all there though, we seen it all," Austin shrugged.

"That's true, except when Thea gets drunk, she might not get an actual hangover but me telling her everything from the night before is basically as painful and as nauseating as having a real hangover, because she doesn't remember a single thing,"

"Seriously? You don't remember a thing?" Austin seemed surprised.

"I remember Haka showing up, and the orange-haired guy, vaguely Yuri arriving but after that nothing," I shook my hair.

"Did you actually sleep with the orange-haired guy?" I turned to Charlie.

"His name is Brian," Jae stated.

"What am I missing?"

"Brian is Jae's new bass player," Charlie mumbled.

"Did he play your bass?" I smirked.

"So who wants to fill her in on what happened between Yuri's arrival and mine?" Jae frowned.

"There was literally ten minutes between You and Yuri," Shawn stated.

"It's drunk Thea, there is a lot that can happen in ten minutes," he stated seriously.

"She tried to tell me off for being late then cried when I told her I was late because my cat was sick, that's all that happened," Yuri stated.

"Lyolik was sick?" I frowned.

"Yeah, kind of like that but with tears," Yuri nodded pointing at me.

"He's fine now," Charlie stated, I relaxed.

"Okay then," Jae smirked and began to list of the things that I had done, including trying to sleep with Benji. My drunken apology to BM for lying to him about sleeping with Drew, Jae felt it necessary to add that BM didn't apologise to me for being an ass.

"That's all?" I was a little surprised.

"No, I saved the best part for last," he beamed.

"Once you realised Jackson was there, you called him over. Shawn needed to go to the bathroom so Jackson said he would watch you. In those five minutes that Shawn was gone, you painfully flirted with him, tried to kiss him, which he was grossly polite and gentlemanly about, not taking advantage of you at all. Then you felt like you were going to be sick, he tried to help you to for feet, you got difficult arguing because you didn't want to move, you ended up elbowing him in the face, then you threw up all over him,"

I could feel the blood drain from my face.

JACKSON

My phone buzzed on the nightstand. I ignored it and tried to go back to sleep, we hadn't gotten home until early hours this morning and then I had to shower which only woke me up so I hadn't actually gotten into bed until about 5 am, and then I don't even know what time I actually got to sleep.

I had almost asleep when my phone buzzed again, I let out a sigh, I wasn't sure what the time was so it could have been anyone, I decided that I should just check it in case it was my parents. I also figured that it would probably just go off again if I tried to go back to sleep.

It wasn't my parents, it was Thea. Even after last night, I couldn't bring myself to be mad at her, I couldn't really bring myself to be anything but concerned about how she was feeling. The first message brought a frown to my face. The second message made me laugh at how cute she was.

Thea: Hey, sorry about last night I wasn't trying to be rude there were just a lot of people. Why did you leave without saying goodbye?

Thea: So please ignore the last message, I've just been reminded of what I did last night. I'm so sorry, this is so embarrassing, I can't believe that I did that, you must have been completely horrified. I'm sorry that you came out to a party just to be ignored and thrown upon. I'm so mortified. Uh, message me later? You know, if you're not too grossed out by me.... again, I'm so sorry...

I wasn't sure how to respond, I thought it was cute that she managed to ramble even through text message. I could only imagine how embarrassed she was, and it wasn't entirely her fault that she had thrown upon me, she had basically force-fed food to soak up some of the alcohol and Shawn had warned me not to get too close, especially when her face contorted. I just thought that he had meant to stay out of the way of her tantrums.

She had gotten a little worked up when Shawn had tried to help her when she got up to go to the bathroom, she had insisted that she hadn't needed help, now that I think about it I think that she knew she was going to be sick. I tried to help him with her, she had started swinging her arms around, I ended up with an elbow to the face, seconds before she emptied her stomach all over my suit. She was kind of cute up until that point.

CHARLIE

She looked completely pale, kind of like she was going to throw up again.

"Do you see? This is what I live for," Jae smirked getting comfortable in his chair stuffing his face with breakfast.

"Please tell me he's exaggerated," she turned to Shawn with a hopeful look. Shawn pulled a face looking down at his own breakfast.

"It really wasn't a pretty sight," Austin commented.

"I did warn him not to get too close," Shawn stated.

"I should really stop drinking," she dropped her head to the table.

There was a mixture of agreements and laughing. This was the usual reaction when she did something stupid, she would get the complete and detailed recap from Jae, hates herself, says she should stop drinking, but never actually sticks to it. It's kind of like when people regret drinking when they wake up with a hangover but they don't really think twice about drinking at the next gathering.

I never understood it, the choice to drink, I hate the feeling, I hate the taste and it's not worth the hangover in the morning. Not to mention the cost of alcohol is ridiculous.

"Why do you always ruin my day?"

"It's fun for me,"

"I think he's just jealous that you're sleeping with everyone but him," I shrugged,

"I think I'm going to be sick," Thea groaned.

"Don't you think you did enough of that last night?"

"He's never going to want to see me again," she sighed.

"It wasn't that bad," Shawn patted her shoulder.

"Are you kidding me? She projectile vomited all over the guy she likes, how exactly is that not that bad?" Junsun stated.

"Shut up," Austin stated.

"I'm just saying,"

"Look at her face, you don't need to be saying anything," Austin frowned.

"How about you all just shut up and eat your breakfast?" I suggested.

"Here," Doobin placed a bowl of soup in front of me.

"Uh, what is this?" I frowned.

"Soup," he turned around and walked back to the kitchen.

"Why?"

"Thea said you don't eat breakfast, I figured you could drink it," he stated.

"Oh my god," I heard her mutter.

"That kid, I swear," Shawn sighed shaking his head.

"Why does she get soup?" Jae frowned.

"Because shut up," Thea stated.

"What? I like soup," Jae rolled his eyes at her.

"So, do you still want to sleep with Nice Back?" Thea changed the subject. I stared at her wide-eyed.

"What? No one know's who I'm talking about,"

"Who is Nice Back?" Jae frowned.

"A guy we saw while we were shopping yesterday," I answered slowly, I could see Doobin smirking in my peripheral.

"He had a nice back," Thea nodded.

"You two are weird," Austin frowned.

"So?" Thea ignored him.

"Let's have this conversation later," I stated.

"I'll take that as a yes," she muttered.

"Stop," I stared at her.

"I'm just saying, maybe you should go and find him and just sleep with him," she shrugged.

"Seriously?"

MARK

"Oh look, Jackson brought his douche," I heard Charlie comment, no surprised she was dressed like a girl whose favourite accessory is a pole.

I rolled my eyes making my way over to the snack table, some other guy was also standing there.

"Hey," he gave me a weird look.

"Hi," I nodded.

"How do you know Thea?" was he trying to make casual conversation?

"I don't," I shrugged.

"Party crashing?" he joked.

"Look's that way, I just stole this bandana off some guy as I walked in," I retorted.

"Your secret's safe with me,  you should try those cupcakes, they're so good,"

"Thanks,"

"Do you know many people here?"hHe asked.

"Just one, but he's a little busy right now,"

"You can come chill with me if you want? Saves you standing there like a loner. People might realise that you've party crashed," he smirked.

CHARLIE

Doobin was giving me sex eyes across the garden, I looked away as quickly as I could, with Thea distracted by Jackson I felt a little like a third wheel which made me want to walk away. But I didn't trust myself to do that either. Where was Yuri?

Anger surged through my body at the sight of Mark sitting and talking with Sam. Who did he think he was? Sam is my best friend, and I hate Mark. It's not like Sam hadn't heard about Mark, he was there when I was venting to Jae, why was he talking to that idiot? My anger turned into frustration which only fueled the desire to have sex, especially with Doobin.

"Sorbet," I turned to Thea.

"What?"

"Sorbet," I repeated.

"Uh, you know everyone right? I'll be right back, I just have to deal with something," she smiled at Jackson who just nodded, apparently not at all finding my sudden interruption weird. I would have judged him for it if I wasn't so busy judging myself for having to find a cockblock so I don't sleep with a 19-year-old.

"Dude," Thea frowned at me once Jackson had walked away.

"What? The Sorbet was your idea, and Doobin being here is your fault,"

"I've rung Yuri, twice, he's not answering and I offered to uninvite him, you're the one who came up with an excuse to have eye sex with him all night you sick freak,"

"Well, you don't just sit an addict in front of a table of cocaine because they say they're sober and it's fine,"

"What's he cut with?" she asked thoughtfully.

"What?" I frowned.

"If he's cocaine, what is he cut with?"

"Can you take this seriously?" I huffed.

"You're cocaine addiction?"

"Dude,"

"Sorry, I'll try and call Yuri again,"

"He better have a good reason for being late," I sighed looking around the back yard. Haka was coming through the gate with a girl and an orange hair guy who was super attractive.

       "He's still not answering," she shrugged.

"Have you slept with him?" I pointed at the orange hair guy.

"Haka?" she frowned at me.

"No, the guy with the orange hair,"

"Oh, not to my knowledge," she shook her head.

"That's not exactly reliable,"

"Dude, I don't even know who he is, he's probably friends with Haka" she shrugged.

THEA

"Okay then," she nodded walking over to the guy, she said something to him, he seemed surprised but nodded. She grabbed his wrist and dragged him inside.

Haka walked over to me with the slim attractive girl, I was assuming that she was his date. She was really pretty. I wasn't sure why she would date Haka, not that he wasn't attractive, he just wasn't on her level of attractive.

"Hey, where is BM?" Haka asked.

"Not here, why?"

"Because I brought him a date, that stick up his butt needs removing. By the way, this is Somin, This is Thea, the birthday hoe," he introduced up.

"Happy birthday," she smiled sweetly.

"Thank you, I don't know when or if BM is going to show up. But you're both welcome to join the party, enjoy," I smiled finally getting myself my first drink.

I may have drunk it a little too quickly, like 30 seconds quick, but it was my birthday, I was supposed to be at least a little tipsy by now.

"Hey!" I heard Benji's voice, I turned around as I opened my second bottle.

Benji was walking in followed by McKay who seemed sulky and a little less himself than normal, Dabit, and Cory. Those four had become pretty good friends, they hang out all the time without me which is rude considering I introduced them.

       They were all dressed really well, but Cory was so attractive it took me a minute to form a sentence. Which was a little embarrassing because even though he is attractive, I don't normally consider him as someone I would sleep with. I completely understood Charlie's thing for a guy in a suit, especially a pinstriped suit.

"Here comes trouble," I commented.

"You're already here," Cory retorted.

"Rude,"

"Why aren't you wobbling yet?" Dabit raised an eyebrow.

"This is only my second drink?" I shrugged lifting the bottle to my lips.

"Well, we have four more on you already, except McKay who volunteered to be the designated driver. Catch up," Benji tilted the bottom of the bottle so I had no choice but to drink it quickly or wear it.

"Dude," I smacked him when he let go of the bottom of the bottle, now that it was empty.

"Another one?" he smirked.

"Take your tipsy friend and go away," I instructed Cory.

"On it, but first you have to have a shot with us"

JACKSON

"Does she sleep with everyone?" Mark frowned at Sam.

"No?"

"Really?" he pointed at Charlie who was escorting an orange-haired guy into the house.

"You don't know they're going to sleep together. Charlie's not the type," Same defended her.

"Mark," I frowned.

"What? I was just asking,"

"You're Jackson's friend?" Sam asked.

"Yeah,"

"Huh," he frowned.

"Guess he heard about lunch," I smirked.

"I wasn't the only one being a dick,"

"So you admit you were a dick?"

"No, I was retaliating to her dickish behaviour,"

"She gets moody before a show, it's the stress. She isn't usually that bad," Sam commented.

"See?"  Mark raised an eyebrow.

"He was defending her,"

"Hey!" someone yells, I turned around to see four guys around Thea, one of them basically force-feeding her a drink. She smacked him and they talked then poured shots.

"Who are they?" I frowned asking Sam.

"Trouble," he sighed.

"You said one," she said loud enough for us to hear it, her friends were filling the shot glasses for a second time.

"Huh?"

"They like to think they're encouraging Thea to have a good time, really they just help her get drunk so much faster than she normally does. It's not like she needs the help drinking, but when she is at her limit they continue to encourage her. She's not the easiest person to deal with when drunk, but by the time she needs assistance they're long gone," Sam explained.

"Shouldn't we do something?" I frowned.

"There isn't really much you can do if you don't know how she works," he shrugged.

"Can't you do something?"

"Still healing from a stab wound," he pointed at his shoulder.

"Shawn's got her," he nodded to a shorter guy with blue ripped jeans and a white shirt, he sort of reminded me of a T-bird without the leather. He has gotten up from where he was sitting with the rest of the dancers. I remembered him as the guy who was looking after Thea at the bar the other night, a very drunk Thea.

He ushered the other four guys away who had already convinced her to have four shots. She wasn't looking so good. They were fine, they had drunk the first shot but not the other three. They weren't very good friends.

THEA

"Go away, it's not even dark yet there is no need to get her drunk so early," Shawn frowned at the boys ushering them away.

"No one made her drink," Benji defended.

"Go," Shawn stated seriously.

"Grumpy," I started as I felt the alcohol starting to hit me which was weird because it didn't normally affect me so early.

"Christ Thea," he frowned wrapping an arm around my waist to stabilize me, he escorted me to the bench seat, probably so I didn't fall and instructed me to not move.

I had an overwhelming tired feeling, which I didn't usually get so early in a night of drinking, but I also didn't normally drink quite so much in such a short time frame.

Yuri walked through the back garden followed by  Kiwoo and Minsung. He was over an hour late. He was attractive in a suit, I mean seriously. It's no wonder he is the only guy both Charlie and I have slept with.

       "Hey! You! Come over here!" I yelled.

"You're in trouble," Minsung taunted, grabbing Kiwoo wrist and pulling him away from me.

"Happy birthday," Kiwoo smiled.

"You better have a very good reason for being late," I glared at Yuri.

"Lyolik was sick," he answered.

"Oh gosh, is he okay?"

"I'm here," he nodded.

"Why is she crying?" Shawn frowned between me and Yuri.

"His cat was sick," I pouted.

"He just had a little hairball, he's fine," Yuri assured me.

"Oh, you're on Charlie duty," I stated matter of factly.

"Why?"

"Because," I paused trying to figure out how to tell Yuri that he needed to make sure she didn't have sex with Doobin, without actually saying that.

"She is trying to avoid hickeys," was what I had managed to come up with,

CHARLIE

That was the worst sex I've had, Not that it was bad, but compared to the guys I have slept with he was at the bottom of the list which just left the craving for Doobin stronger. Palette cleanser my ass. I left the spare room before he did, the fact that I still wanted to sleep with Doobin made me mad.

I headed outside, Yuri was chatting with Thea and Shawn who was trying to feed her food.

"Where the crap have you been?" I frowned walking over to them.

"Hey!  Hey, stop," Thea yelled towards me.

"How drunk are you? I've been gone twenty minutes," I frowned.

"Those four aren't the best influence," Shawn nodded towards her 'friends'

"Oh yeah, they're great at creating chaos, not so much at dealing with it later. But back to my point, why are you late?" I frowned at Yuri.

"Hey, I said stop. Lyolik was sick," Thea frowned.

"Is he okay?"

"Yeah, but apparently I'm your baby sitter for the night?"

"According to who?"

"Me, just in case your sorbet didn't help,"

"It didn't,"

"Well, now you're in hickey protection,"

"Is that supposed to be like witness protection?" Shawn frowned, I had momentarily forgotten he was here, or at least that he is Doobin's brother.

"Yeah," Thea nodded still laughing.

"From who?"

"No one," I frowned.

"Oh my god, why are you here?" Thea stared at Shawn, the alcohol was clearly taking full effect.

"Someone has to stop you from falling on your face," Shawn frowned at her.

"Why would you stop her from falling on her face? That is literally the only reason I come to her parties," Jae walked through the back gate.

"Why are you so late?" I frowned at him, I had only just realised that he hadn't been here.

       "My bass player was supposed to pick me up from work with our stuff but apparently he decided to just come here, have you seen him?"

"Hey bro," the orange-haired guy walked up from behind me. Thea started laughing again.

"Thea, shut up," I frowned.

"But he just came here," she continued to laugh.

"It can't be the first time someone has decided to just leave him stranded," I tried to divert the conversation.

"Please tell me you didn't sleep with Thea?" he sighed closing his eyes for a moment.

"Which one is Thea?"

"The one laughing,"

"No, I didn't sleep with her,"

"Wait, so you did sleep with someone?" he frowned snapping his eyes open.

"Yeah he did," Thea cheered.

"Thea," I frowned.

"Please tell me you're gay,"

"No,"

"I take it back, tell me you slept with Thea," Jae shook his head looking more annoyed than I had actually seen him in a long time.

"No, I slept with her, I'm Brian by the way," he smirked pointing at me.

"You slept with Charlie?" he glared at Brian.

"That's Charlie?" he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Dude, seriously? there are like a hundred dudes here, why him?"

"Process of elimination, take out the ones Thea has slept with, because I work with them, and the ones I won't sleep with like you because ew. All that was left was him,"

"You slept with a ginger," Thea burst out laughing.

"We need to have a conversation," he narrowed his eyes further at Brian before pulling him away.

"Not into orange sorbet?" Yuri asked casually which only made Thea laugh more.

JACKSON

"Do you want a drink?" I asked Mark and Sam who had just been chatting away like old friends.

"Nope," they shook their heads.

I felt a little third-wheeled by those two and Thea hadn't come over to talk to me since I first got here, and she had been both surrounded by people and a little too drunk for me to want to risk approaching her.

On my way over I overheard someone speaking in Cantonese, I automatically turned around to see who was speaking in my mother tongue and if I was just hearing things. I wasn't, a black haired guy in a black suit was speaking to a guy who was leaning his head on his shoulder.

"Are you Chinese?" I asked in Cantonese. "No," he replied in English which made me think that maybe I had been hearing things. "Oh, sorry," I frowned shaking my head. "I can speak the language though," he stated in Cantonese as I realised he would have had to know the language for him to answer my question.

CHARLIE

I watched Jackson sit and join Kiwoo and Minsung in a conversation. Clearly, I wasn't the only one unhappy with the Mark Sam team-up. I continued looking around the garden to see what everyone was doing and if they were enjoying themselves because I knew that would be the first thing Thea asked me in the morning, okay maybe not the first thing, it would probably follow; 'Did you sleep with Doobin?' And 'Did I do something stupid?'.

Speaking of Doobin, I hadn't realised I had been staring at him, he had though because he was smirking directly at me, I say smirking when I reality it was more of a perve glare.

"Hey," Yuri nudged me. "What?" "Unless you're going to go and jump him, stop staring," he mumbled. I would have been worried about Shawn hearing him if I couldn't see Shawn dealing with Thea. Who was a little extra out of control tonight?

"Charlie, can you please get my bag from my car?" He called. "What? No, I don't even know what your car looks like. I have to check on something inside," I frowned getting up and making my way in the house.

I quickly glanced back at Yuri who hadn't decided to follow me until he noticed me staring at him. He laughed at my dilemma but followed me inside.

JACKSON

Charlie got up and walked inside with her tall model looking, friend. Shawn let out a sigh and instructed Thea not to move, she laughed and mimicked him. he moved all the breakable things away from her and told her that he would be right back.

She has seemed to sober up a bit since all of the alcohol her friends fed her took effect, but that didn't mean she wasn't still drunk. I was beginning to think that being drunk was her resting state.

"So, how do you know the oh so dignified birthday girl?" Minsung asked.

"Uh, I don't really know her, I mean we've been talking for a few weeks getting to know each other but from what I've been heard about her from everyone else, I don't actually know anything about her," I stated.

"I'm going to get another drink, do you want anything honey?" Kiwoo asked.

"I still have one," he smiled.

"What you've been hearing?" he prodded for more information.

"Mostly about her sex life," I shrugged.

"Don't listen to everyone else," he shook his head taking a sip from his beer bottle.

"It's kind of hard not to,"

"Everyone likes to blow it out of proportion, yes she has slept with a few guys, but not as many as everyone else likes to say she has. Not that she really shuts down the rumours, in reality, she has only slept with a handful of guys, it just seems like a lot because she's still friends with them so they're around a lot,"

"It sounds like you know her quite well," I frowned.

"I haven't slept with her if that's what you mean, I've just known her since high school. I used to date Charlie,"

"So, can you tell me anything positive about her?"

"I can, but will you believe me?" he questioned.

BM

"I'm just going to the bathroom," Somin smiled at me getting up.

"Do you know where it is?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Ah, no" she looked a little embarrassed.

"Just go up the stairs, turn left, go through that door and there is a door on your left,"

"Uh,"

"Do you want me to show you?"

"Would you mind?"

"Come on," I shook my head directing her through the girls' house.

On my way back outside I noticed Benji was now sitting next to Thea who wasn't really in the best mental state, she leant over and whispered in his hear, I'm sure if I was closer I would have heard what she had said, she's not very good at whispering when she had been drinking. He pulled a face, contemplating what she has just said to him then nodded. She tried to get up, he had to help her. Honestly, he wasn't doing the best on his legs either, they started to head inside. I might be mad at her but she was still my best friend and I didn't like the idea of Benji taking advantage of her drunken state, even if he wasn't so clear-headed either.

I took a step to intervene but Shawn was already in the process, he glared at Benji who seemed to be trying to make his point. Shawn looked mad, almost as mad as he had looked last night when he was yelling at me. Thea seemed entertained by the whole thing, Shawn shook his head lifting her over his shoulder, which was kind of funny because he wasn't a tall guy, he was only slightly taller than Thea. She didn't fight him, she just went limp until he put her down in the seat she had just gotten up from.

JACKSON

"That girl is a mess," Mark commented.

"It is her birthday," Sam defended.

"Charlie's?"

"Dude," I frowned.

"I'm just kidding," he rolled her eyes.

"No, you're not," I mumbled.

"She really isn't anything like you think she is," Sam continued to defend her.

"I would have to take your word for it," he shrugged.

"I'm sure her opinion of you is wrong," Sam commented.

"I would have to take your word for it," I smirked, Mark rolled his eyes at me.

"Oh my gosh, you're here!" Thea yelled across the garden, looking directly at me.

"He's been here the whole time," someone commented, I wasn't sure who.

"Come and sit with me," she tried to stand up.

"You should probably go over there before she decides to try and come over here," Sam stated.

"You think she'll make it over here?" Mark asked curiously.

"No, but she'll try and she'll become very difficult for whoever tries to stop or help her,"

"That sounds kind of entertaining," he shrugged.

"Hey, come sit with me," she called.

"I'm coming,"

"I would think twice about that," Mark commented.

"You should stop drinking," I frowned at him.

"Yeah, I'm the one who should stop drinking,"

I just rolled my eyes making my way over to the table she was sitting at with Shawn. She was staring off into the bonfire that they had started not too long ago, she seemed pretty determined to go over to it when it had first been lit, Shawn had made sure she stayed put.

"Jackson, you're here," she smiled when I sat down next to her.

"I am," I nodded.

"I didn't think you were going to come," she pulled a perverted face.

"He's been here basically all night,"

THEA

I woke up sandwiched between two buff dudes, I opened my eyes to the ceiling, Shawn was on one side of me, Austin on the other. I tried to move but they had me pretty securely in place. I'm not really sure why they were both in my bed, I also wasn't sure that them having me sleep on my back was the safest option.

It took some effort but I finally managed to wiggle free, neither one of them moved, one of them, I'm assuming Austin had a box of Advil and a bottle of water next to the bed with my name written on it. It was adorable really, I'm sure Shawn had told him I don't get hungover, no one really believes it at first. I left it there because I was sure one of them would probably need it.

I stretched sliding on my pants walking out the door as Shire emerged from under my bed, he jumped up between the two boys, curled up into a ball and went back to sleep. Closing the door behind me I heard noises from the kitchen like someone was cooking in there noises.

Doobin was cooking away, normally I would have intervened straight away, I hate people cooking in my kitchen, they always do things wrong. But I watched him, he was cleaning up as he cooked, he wasn't using metal in my frypans, he had even washed the dishes that were already there.

"What are you doing?" he raised an eyebrow,

"Watching you, what are you doing?"

"You're a creep. I'm cooking breakfast. Someone was talking about how you would be cooking breakfast for everyone in the morning because that's what you do but you looked pretty out of it last night so I wasn't sure what time you would be up,"

"Charlie doesn't eat breakfast," I stated. There was no way this kid would be cooking breakfast for an entire house of hungover people, this had everything to do with Charlie.

"Okay?"

"You don't look like you're going to damage anything," I stated, more to myself than to him.

"Do you want an extra set of hands or are you good?" I offered.

"I'm fine,"

"Okay, don't use metal in my pans and I'll allow you to continue,"

"Don't swear at me,"

"Okay, I'm going to go and wake up your brother," I smirked.

"In a house full of dudes? You really are a weirdo,"

"Like you would turn it down if she offered, and your brothers in this house you sick freak," I stated walking down to my room. Austin had woken up, or more accurately had been woken up by Shire who was currently sitting on Austin's chest getting attention from the cat lover.

"Hey,"

"Hey, can you like, get out, and take Shire with you?"

"Why?"

"Because I want to have sex with Shawn," I stated.

"He's still asleep,"

"Not for long, now out you go, and keep a close eye on him, make sure he doesn't get out,"

"I probably wouldn't be a good idea for us to sleep together again huh?"

"No, but Doobin is cooking breakfast,"

"Okay, We're going, be safe kids," he winked picking Shire up which was weird because he never really let anyone pick him up.

"Thea is still asleep, so Shawn sent me," he finally filled me in on why he was here.

"What's with the kid?" Jae frowned.

"He is here to take me to get some things for the party tonight,"

"What's wrong with your car?" Sam asked.

"I have no idea, it doesn't want to start so the mechanic has to come out and look at it,"

"Does it have fuel?" Jae questioned.

"Do I look like an idiot?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Do you want me to answer that?" he countered.

"What are you two even doing here?"

"We are here to start setting everything up,"

"You're going to do something?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Not exactly, I'm Sam's hands. Why did Thea send a kid instead of calling one of us?"

"Thea didn't, Shawn did,"

"Not a kid," Doobin rolled his eyes.

"My bad, Teenager," Jae replied sarcastically.

"Okay, well don't break anything, let's go," I ushered Doobin towards Shawn's car.

Not that I wasn't enjoying the reminder that I had, in fact, slept with a teenager, not only once, but twice, I didn't actually need Jae to figure that out. If we stayed much longer he would somehow smell the fact we've had sex and blurt it out.

BM

"Hey bro," Drew nervously walked through the bar doors.

I didn't respond, I didn't even acknowledge his existence. I was beyond mad, not just at Thea but at Drew as well. I didn't understand how or why they would sleep together, or even when and how didn't anyone know about it? I debated asking him but that meant I had to talk to him and I didn't want to do that.

"Can you just hear me out?" I glanced at him for a second before looking back down at the order list.

"Okay well if you're not going to talk to me then I will just tell you anyway," he waited for a response but got none.

"Look, bro, it happened a long time ago. Back in high school," he started.

That made me madder, they had kept it a secret from everyone, including me, for almost 10 years? Since then they have joked and argued as if nothing had happened.

I bit down on my tongue, worried that if I said something I would lash out and I couldn't afford to go breaking bar stock. Not with the amount of money that had gone missing lately.

"I'll take your silence as I can continue, it was the summer I helped he lose all the weight, we had spent a lot of time together and I can't speak for her but honestly I liked her before she started losing weight. It was the weekend before we started back, she was nervous and having another breakdown and wouldn't let me call you, I was trying to comfort her and it just kind of happened. But if you want to be mad at someone be mad at me, I initiated it,"

"If you were trying to piss me off more, you succeeded," I commented without looking up.

I might be mad at both of them but for him to take advantage of her like that, my internal ramblings stoped as a question crossed my mind. I knew Thea, and if Drew really was the first person she slept with.

"Did it happen more than once?" I looked up slightly. He froze.

"How long were you sleeping together?" I frowned.

"All through the first semester," he sighed.

"Get out," I rolled my eyes.

"I know I shouldn't have done it, but I didn't know how else to make her feel less insecure. She wanted to tell you back when it first happened but I didn't want you to hate me so I convinced her it would be better to not tell you," he sighed turning to leave.

"So that rumour that went around the school, about you two, wasn't actually a rumour?"

"No, but if I remember your reaction correctly, that's was cemented the choice not to tell you in Thea's head," he stated before he left.

THEA

"Morning," Shawn smirked when I stretched out opening my eyes.

He was sitting next to me in his bed, no shirt, a cup of coffee in his hand.

"Morning," I yawned.

"How are you feeling?"

"Just tired," I stretched a little more.

"You really don't get hungover do you?"

"Not even a little bit,"

"Do you want some coffee?"

"Mm," I sat up, he handed me a cup from next to his bed.

"What time do you need to get home?"

"Soonish, I need to get everything set up, and cook some food," I shrugged taking a sip of coffee.

"Do you want some help?" He offered casually.

"Probably, Jae isn't exactly helpful and Sam can't do anything. Plus I doubt BM will be there after last night,"

"Mm," Shawn pulled a face.

"What?"

"Nothing," He shook his bed but held his expression.

"You're not a fan of BM?"

"I'm not a fan of the way he yelled at you last night,"

"He was just mad,"

"I understand he was mad, but that doesn't justify him getting in your face and yelling at you. I'm sure if he saw some other guys do it to you he would have done exactly what I did,"

He wasn't wrong. I mean I wasn't not still mad at him, and he said some pretty hurtful things last night but he had a reason to this time, and I did feel guilty. But if the roles were reversed, BM would have stood between me and the other guy removing him from the area.

"Drink your coffee and get dressed, then we will go," he said getting up.

"Okay, where are you going?"

"To shower, you know you have a habit of tipping you drinks on people when your drunk?"

"And you waited until now to shower?"

"Not exactly, you got a little bit too drunk after BM left, it was either lay down with you or you would have raided my alcohol supply here,"

"Well, if it makes you feel any better I have a habit of spilling things on people when I'm sober,"

"You're hopeless," he smiled at me.

"Thank you," I called as he closed the bathroom door.

SAM

"No, to the left," I sighed.

"My left or your left?"

"My left is your left,"

"Why didn't you just say that?"Jae complained.

"I did, several times," I frowned.

"No, you didn't,"

"Whatever, would you just put the lights up properly?"

"Do you need some help?" BM smiled turning the corner, he had come through the side gate.

"No, we're good," Jae shrugged dropping the lights.

"Dude, seriously?" I frowned.

"What? Buff Monkey distracted me," he defended himself.

"What do you need me to do?" BM ignored Jae.

"Not be here when Thea gets back," I gave him a sympathetic smile.

"You're taking sides?" He gave me a shocked expression.

"I don't take sides,"

"Unless it's Charlie's," Jae smirked over his shoulder.

"Shut up, I don't take sides but we are at her house, for her party, that I'm not even sure you're invited to anymore," I pointed out.

"Like she has the right to be mad at me, she slept with Drew and lied about it,"

"Technically she didn't lie,"  Jae pointed out. BM frowned at him.

"I know, I'm as grossed out as you are, but she didn't lie, she just didn't tell you. Besides I can't be the only one who noticed the fact Drew has had a thing for her since she was the real-life embodiment of Shrek,"

"You have a weird ability to pick on everyone else's sex vibes," I frowned.

"You really didn't notice? Did you think he dealt with her drama and let all the crap she pulls at the club go just because she's your bro?"

"You could have pointed that out earlier,"

"You could have not been so dumb," Jae retorted.

"I really think it would be better if you weren't here when she got home, I'll text you and let you know if she rescinded your invite,"

"She can't be that petty,"

"She can if you got all up in her face like an abusive ex," Jae stated

"I didn't get all up in her face,"

"You kind of did, why else would Shawn and Austin escort you out?"

"Because they've both slept with her?"

"Dude," Jae pulled a face.

"What?"

"You really need to sort your shit out, because me defending Thea doesn't sit right with anyone,"

THEA

"What's with the bag?" I frowned at Shawn who I had been waiting for, for about half an hour.

"Change of clothes, I don't want to get dressed now then help set up and get dirty, so, I'll just get ready at your house,"

"You're so clingy," I teased.

"Do you trust your friends to get everything done on their own? Because I can just drop you home then come back here," He raised an eyebrow at me.

"Hey, Sam is a design genius, BM, probably won't be there, and Jae, well he is useless. Okay, I'll be nice," I raised my hands surrendering.

"That's what I thought," he smirked patting the pockets of his pants.

"Have you seen my keys?" He frowned.

"Have you checked your bra?" I asked casually.

"I thought you were going to be nice?"

"I haven't seen your keys,"

He let out a sigh, dropping his bag next to the front door he diverted towards Doobin's bedroom. He knocked a few times then opened the door when there was no answer.

"Seriously?" He sighed again.

"What?"

"He took my car," he shook his head pulling his phone from his pocket.

"Maybe he needed to go out?"

"So he snuck into my bedroom and pulled my keys out of my pants?"

"It was an emergency? I shrugged.

"Right, I might believe that if he didn't have a habit of stealing my keys and taking my car," he lifted his phone to his ear.

CHARLIE

His phone started to ring from the front seat, he smirked down at me and pulled out to retrieve his phone.

"Seriously?" I frowned. We were in the middle of having sex in the back seat of the car, not exactly my finest moment.

"Hello?" He answered thrusting himself back in without warning. A moan escaped my lips which only caused him to smirk down at me. I went to smack his chest but his free hand caught my wrist and pinned it above my head.

"Hey Shawn," he answered spoke casually, as if he wasn't currently in the middle of having sex with me.

"Yeah I have your car," he spoke speeding up.

"Are you insane?" I whispered or tried, The words came out as more of a moan than an actual sentence.

"I had some things to do," he winked at me. I could feel the build in my stomach, judging by the look on his face as he braced himself properly and sped up more, I wasn't the only one aware of the fact I was edging rapidly towards my climax.

"Sure, I'll bring it back now, I'm pretty much done anyway," he was quick to cover my mouth with his hand as the sounds of ecstasy escaped.

"Later," he hung up quickly as he reached his own climax.

"Are you trying to get us caught?" I frowned after we'd ridden out our highs.

"No," he shrugged.

"Why would you answer a phone call to your brother while we were boning?"

"He called," he slipped back into his pants.

"So? And I thought he sent you to help me,"

"Not exactly," he climbed back through the car to get into the driver's seat.

"Not exactly?"

"I seen your message on Thea's phone, they were both sleeping,"

SAM

Charlie walked through the door ignoring our presents completely, she was completely empty-handed.

"I thought you were getting stuff for the party?" I frowned, calling after her.

"I thought you two were setting up?" she retorted coming back down the hallway.

"I needed a snack break," Jae shrugged.

"The cake isn't ready and if I don't wait for Thea and I get the wrong decorations she'll have a fit," she shrugged.

"Want some food?"

"No, I have a headache, I'm going to shower," she stated as she left the room.

"How is a shower going to help with a headache?" Jae raised an eyebrow, I just shrugged.

We had managed to hang one set of lights before Jae had decided that he was exhausted and needed a snack break, and by snack break, I meant a full meal, for three people. Honestly, I wasn't sure we were even going to get everything set up before people got here, Thea's party might just turn into a decoration committee.

THEA

I could hear Sam bickering with Jae when I got out of Shawn's car. Clearly, that was going well, shook my head and Shawn smirked at me as if to say 'I told you so'. I opened my mouth to say something but he just held his hand up to silence me and made his way through the back gate where he was greeted by Volk.

"I've got this," he called closing the gate behind him.

I made my way inside where Charlie was buzzing around the kitchen baking things for tonight. She looked a little stressed out which made me feel a little bad about staying at Shawn's last night.

"What do you need help with?" I asked.

"Nothing in here," she shook her head, was she mad at me?

"Sorry, I would have been back earlier but Doobin kind of had Shawn's car,"

"I know,"

"What do you mean you know?" I frowned.

"Uh, we need stuff for tonight," she turned off the oven which was odd for her considering the cupcakes were still cooking in there.

"What are you doing?" I frowned.

"What? I can't leave the oven on while we go out,"

"You can wait for them to finish," I stated. She pulled a face.

"Shawn could have also waited," she mumbled.

"Shawn is outside helping Sam so I would be careful with the incriminating evidence," I cautioned.

"Shawn's outside?" she frowned.

"Yeah,"

"No, Shawn and Jae can't be together," she shook her head.

"What? Why?"

"I'll explain it later, Jae is coming shopping with us,"

"Argh," I rolled my eyes.

CHARLIE

There was no way I could let Jae and Shawn have a conversation together, Jae would likely ask Shawn why he had sent Doobin this morning. Then the conversation would end with Jae figuring out that I was currently sleeping with him and likely tell Shawn and that is a whole level of drama I don't need to be dealing with.

"Yo, you're coming shopping with us," I stated, walking out the back door, Thea sighing behind me.

"Ew, why?" Jae pulled a face.

"Because I'm being a good wing bro, I'm getting you some face time with your crush," I stated.

"Who else is going?"

"Just us," I shrugged

"No Coco," Thea commented.

"Jealous?" he retorted.

"Just get in the car," I rolled my eyes.

"I have work,"

"We'll drop you off,"

"You're weird today, but whatever,"

"Why? Why are we taking him to work?" Thea complained.

"I can take him," Shawn offered.

"No," I stated too quickly.

"I mean, we're already going that way,"

"No we're not, we're literally going the opposite way," Thea huffed.

"Shut up, there are shops in Perth,"

"Whatever, are you okay here?" she raised an eyebrow at Shawn who just shrugged.

"Kay, I'm going to go wait in the car, hurry up or I'm leaving without both of you," she shook her head walking off.

THEA

We drove in mostly in silence, except for the music playing in the background. Jae had tried to interrogate Charlie as to why she was acting strange, she managed to turn it around on him and brought up the fact that he and I almost slept together, to which he shut up. I just didn't talk, I wasn't sure I would remember Jae in the back with him being silent, and if I started talking and forgot about him I was likely to question Charlie about her morning with Doobin. Which is half the reason I didn't want to have to drive Jae to work.

"Okay, spill," I stated, the second Jae had closed the door behind him.

"What?"

"Doobin came to the house this morning? To take you to get stuff for the party? Which you didn't get, so please enlighten me on what exactly it is you did do?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Doobin," she mumbled.

"Dude, you were literally almost caught, by Shawn, less than 24 hours ago,"

"I was almost caught by Shawn this morning," she continued to mumble.

"What?"

"Shouldn't you be more careful?"

"I am being careful, I didn't have to go to the chemist on the way home,"

"That's not funny," I frowned.

"It's a little funny, besides, I'm not the one who answered my phone while having sex,"

"You were having sex while Doobin was on the phone to Shawn?"

"Kind of," she pulled a face.

"What finished first? You or the phone call?"

"Dude, you realise we're related?"

"Well, that answers my question,"

"You're the one who sent him," she defended.

"No, I didn't, he stole Shawn's keys then took his car,"

"Is it weird that it makes him more attractive,"

"You have a problem, oh god. Please tell me I didn't sit in your sex seat. No, actually, don't tell me," I shuttered.

'Relax, it was in the back seat. The kid has control issues, also makes him more attractive," she commented.

"Where is he on the Yuri scale?" I raised an eyebrow, curiosity getting the better of me.

"The Yuri scale?"

"He's the only guy we've both slept with, he's the only scale we have,"

"11," she sighed.

"Dude,"

"Yeah, I need help," she nodded.

"Do you want me to uninvite him?"

"He'll just show up anyway, I just need to stop sleeping with him,"

"You need a palette cleanser,"

"What?"

"You need to have sex with someone else to cleanse your palette, kind of like a sorbet between meals," I explained.

"He is a meal," she nodded.

"Dude,"

"You asked," she retorted.

JACKSON

"Can you get ready?" I frowned at Mark who as sitting on the lounge on his phone.

"I am ready," he muttered, he was wearing black skinny jeans and a printed black tee shirt.

"You realise it's a themed party? It's not like you don't have enough suits," I huffed tying my tie.

"I have expensive suits that I'm not wearing to a house party with a bunch of people I don't know,"

"You could at least put something on that roughly fits the dress code,"

"Bandana," he pointed to his head giving me a side glance.

He'd had an attitude about the whole thing since he got home. He had gone to work this morning to deal with some paperwork and apparently his barista or whatever hadn't been in or hadn't wanted to make coffee. I don't know, something happened and he didn't get the coffee he liked so he was being all moody about it.

"That's not... whatever," I sighed.

"What?" he frowned.

"Nothing," I shook my head walking back to my bedroom to get my waistcoat.

I knew he didn't want to come, and I told him he didn't have to but he had just said, 'what else am I going to do?' really I think he was just coming so that I knew someone there other than Thea who was going to be busy being a host so I would probably just be on my own all night if Mark didn't come. Or I would be stuck with that guy who was supposed to be friends with Thea but just insulted her the whole time.

CHARLIE

People had begun to arrive, starting with Doobin who had come with Koosung because Shawn refused to go an get him after the stunt he pulled this morning. I had heard them speaking which is how I knew it was them, but I was yet to go out there, I had been getting ready when they got here, now I was just avoiding leaving my room because I didn't want to face Doobin with Shawn standing right there. I was a little worried Shawn would figure it out. I'm still half-convinced he will be able to smell Doobin on me.

"Are you ready yet?" Thea called from the other side of my door.

"Almost," I replied getting up from the stool in front of my vanity.

"You're not even ready yet," Shawn stated which just made sit back down and continue judging my life choices.

"I can't just change clothes and be done with it," she retorted.

I sat there for another five minutes before I decided that I should probably leave my room. I figured that I would just go sit with Sam, Sam was safe. I got up from my vanity and walked out of my room quickly before I changed my mind. I closed my door behind me to keep Sora safe, I didn't want to risk her getting out of the house with the number of people being here tonight.

As I spun around to head outside, I collided with a chest. A firm chest that I was hoping wasn't Doobin. An arm wrapped around my waist to stop me from falling and before I knew it my back was against the hallway wall looking up at Doobin's pervy smirk.

"Hey," he was looking down at me, or down my top, I wasn't sure which but I was betting on it not being my face.

"Hey," I breathed as his hand found my exposed waist.

I had flashbacks of the first time he had me pressed against this wall, the I heard Shawn's voice calling his brother with I retaliated with but pushing him away and walking into Thea's room.

"Um, hi," she frowned at me half-naked.

"I need your help,"

"With?"

"I swear I almost just had sex with Doobin in the hallway,"

"Dude, his brother is right outside,"

"That's not exactly the issue,"

"He's attractive, the fact that his brother is here and you don't want to get caught is really the only issue,"

"and he is 6 years younger than me,"

"Oh, right, so what do you want me to do about it? Get a time machine?"

"Can you?"

"No,"

"Then just help me find a sorbet,"

"Yuri should be here soon," she stated with a shrug.

"That doesn't really help me right now,"

"I'll be dressed in a minute and then I'll just play the buffer until you can get your own buffing," she winked, I just laughed at her.

SAM

"Wow, you really outdid yourself," Thea nodded approvingly at me.

"Thanks,"

"I helped," Shawn pouted.

"I know," she nodded.

Charlie just stood there awkwardly, which was weird considering she was how Thea even met Shawn, except now she was acting as though she's never met him before. Honestly, she had been acting weird all day. I think it had something to do with the increase of attention Thea was seeking from her because she was fighting with BM.

The weirdest part about the whole thing was not that she was being awkward around people, she's never been a people person, it was the fact that she had a bag of Doritos in her hand and would be putting a new chip in her mouth before she had finished the last one. She has never been a snacking person, so watching her devour a bag of chips was just strange considering said a bag of chips on any other given day would last her almost a week.

"You okay?" I asked I'd gotten up from where I was sitting to walk over to her.

"Huh?" she turned her attention to me.

"You okay?" I repeated.

"Oh, yeah," she nodded mid-chew.

"Where did Koosung go?" she asked when I just frowned at her sceptically.

"He went to go and get Jinwoo, Eunho, and Junsun, he drew the short straw,"

THEA

"Damn girl!" I heard Austin's voice, I turned around hearing his wolf whistle as he looked Charlie up and down.

"Wow, home girl's looking fly!" he nodded approvingly at me.

"Perv,"

"Hard not to be when you're surrounded by beautiful women,"

"Did you have a few drinks before you drove yourself over here?" I frowned at him.

"No, I'm just hyped for tonight, it's going to be dope,"

"Calm down, it hasn't even started yet," I rolled my eyes.

"Am I early, or is everyone just late?"

"A little of both," I shrugged.

I noticed Doobin staring at Charlie with a perverted face, I also noticed her returning the same look.

"Why don't we go and finish making the food before everyone gets here?" I gave her a look before pushing her towards the kitchen.

"For someone who is trying to not get caught you're making obvious faces at him in public,"

"Dude, have you seen what he's wearing? I have a thing for a guy in a suit,"

"Why do you think you're in here with me instead of out there with him?"

"Because you're a buzzkill?"

"Because I don't think anyone wants to see you jump him in our backyard," I retorted.

"Lame,"

"Do you need any help?" Doobin walked in.

"Shoot me," Charlie muttered under her breath.

"No," I shook my head.

"Are you sure? There is a lot of food by the looks of it,"

"I'm perfectly capable, This is my domain, no one enters my kitchen. So, go away," I shooed him. He pulled a face at me looking towards Charlie who was looking at anything but him.

CHARLIE

"How many parties does one person need for their birthday?" Junsun commented walking into the kitchen where I was still hiding out with Thea.

"How many parties do you need to not be invited to before you get the message?" she retorted.

"You've hurt my feelings, do you know how much work I put into this look?"

"I'm just surprised you're wearing pants and not shorts," she shrugged.

"Damn," I commented when Koosung and Jinwoo wandered in wearing matching jumpsuits, they had decided that they weren't going to go in the suit direction and instead chose the grease monkey route.

"Hey," Koosung winked at me.

"Oh, I was talking to Jinwoo," I shrugged. Koosung pouted at me, Jinwoo smirked.

"Why are you hiding in here?" Junsun asked picking at a pile of pre-cut ingredients. Thea, without actually looking at him turned the knife around in her hand and smacked him on the back of his hand with the handle.

"I'm not hiding," I frowned.

"I thought you were getting Eunho too?" I asked ignoring the whining from Junsun.

"Get out of my kitchen," Thea warned smacking him again.

"Dude, stop, you never learn," Koosung stated.

"Eunho is outside," Jinwoo answered.

"No, I'm here," Eunho smile. His outfit was simple, black pant's, white button-down shirt. They were all attractive.

JACKSON

"This is where they live?" Mark raised an eyebrow.

"This is the address that Thea gave me," I pulled the car into the grass, there were already a few cars here and the driveway was full, I was a little worried that we were late.

"It's quaint," he commented.

"Are you going to be a jerk all night?"

"I was just saying," he shrugged getting out of the car.

"Can you try and play nice?"

"I am nice," I rolled my eyes locking the car.

"I see you don't trust the neighbourhood. Would you be nice?"

"Can you go home?" I muttered.

"Give me your keys,"

"Go inside,"

"Because you're not everyone else to her bro, you're supposed to protect her, not attack her,"

"Maybe she should learn to protect herself, I'm supposed to be her friend, not her bodyguard,"

JACKSON

"So are you going to come tomorrow?"

"What's tomorrow?" He frowned at me.

"Thea's birthday party,"

"Oh right, no,"

"What, why?"

"Why would I?"

"Because she invited you?"

"She only invited me because she invited you and didn't want to leave you awkward like she did at the bar," he pointed out.

"All the more reason for you to come,"

"So I can sit there with a bunch of people I don't know? No thank you,"

"You'll know me, and Thea, and Charlie,"

"I don't know Thea and I don't want to know Charlie," he shrugged.

"Why, what's wrong with Charlie?"

"She's moody, rude, and a little on the hoe side," he shrugged again.

"You met her on a bad day, you don't know anything about her.  How annoyed do you get when people assume you're a rude trust fun kid because you don't talk a lot?"

"That's different,"

"Not really, you're judging Charlie on one meeting without even knowing her,"

"I don't need to know her," He mumbled turning his attention back to his phone.

"You're just mad that the girl you stalked on Facebook was mean to you," I commented.

CHARLIE

"Shopping first?" Thea asked pulling out of the driveway.

"Do you want to walk around looking for clothes after you get your hair and make up some?"

"No," she frowned.

"Then shopping first," I nodded.

"Let's go then," she started driving in the direction of the shopping centre.

"So what are you wearing tonight?" she side glanced at me.

"I don't know, shorts and a shirt," I shrugged flicking through the radio stations.

"Ew, what no," she frowned.

"What do you mean ew?" I raised an eyebrow.

"You're not wearing ordinary civilian clothes to my birthday party,"

"Civilian clothes?"

"Yes, I'm getting a new outfit, so are you,"

I just let out a sigh, there was no point arguing with her because she would keep pushing and start to become irritating if I refused.

SAM

"Did you two know?" BM came home in a bad mood.

"Know what?" Had asked not looking up from his phone.

"That Thea was having a thing at Drews tonight for her birthday?"

"Oh, that? You owe me $20," Jae stated side glancing at me.

"For what?" I frowned.

"I bet you $20 that Drew would tell him,"

"I never agreed to that,"

"So you both knew?" BM rolled his eyes.

"Basically," Jae nodded.

"Thea didn't want us to tell you because she didn't want you there, and it is her birthday," I explained.

"She is really blowing this out of proportion, it's getting ridiculous,"

"She's mad, she kind of has a right to be," Jae commented.

"It was a few little comments that she has heard a thousand times before,"

"Not from you," he countered.

"I don't think she's so mad at the comments as much as she is that you haven't apologised and just assumed she would act like nothing happened," I stated.

"You still haven't apologised?" Jae frowned at him.

"For what? She's acting like a child,"

"Your both acting like children, just apologise and stop pulling us in the middle of your tantrum," Jae stated getting up.

"Where are you going?"

"Charlie asked me to do something for her,"

"You're actually going to do something?"

"It beats sitting here listening to McWhiney Pants over there, besides, my for asked me to do and I'm a good bro," he made a small stab at BM before he left.

THEA

"What about this?" I held up a red and black low cut dress.

"It's cute, but I feel like it needs to have some kind of green on it," She shrugged.

"You're not wrong," I nodded as she pulled a smug face.

"Yeah I know, always right," I waved her off.

"You say it m pre than I do,"

"Whatever, so, what are the chances of you letting me choose your outfit?"

"You only want to do that so you don't have to look for yourself," she pointed out

"You don't know that," she frowned.

"Whatever, go ahead,"

"Who is coming tonight anyway?" she let out a sigh.

"The usual people, some old friends, the boys from 1million, Yuri who will probably bring Minsung who will definitely bring Kiwoo," I shrugged purposely throwing the 1million boys in the middle.

I knew Doobin would be there, but I also knew everyone else would be there and the club was closed to everyone but us so it was going to be a little difficult for them to sneak off together. But that being said if they were to sneak off together she may as well look good. I had already picked her out an outfit before I'd even asked her if I could. The mannequin in the store window was dressed in an outfit that practically screamed Charlie, of course, it needed a few additions, like fishnets and probably a belt because her clothes bearly fit her more than once, I swear she loosed weight from simply breathing.

CHARLIE

"Seriously? Are the fishnets really necessary?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yuri's going to be there," she shrugged paying for it, I'd tried to argue with her but her response had been 'I'm not paying for it, mum is'. Her parents had sent her guilt money on top of money for her birthday because they couldn't make it down, her brother had done the same. She was acting like it didn't bother her but it was just an act. It was the third birthday they had missed. and it was going to be the second Christmas.

"Plus, you wouldn't have tried it on if you didn't like it," she pointed out.

"Your turn," I stated.

"You know I'm right,"

"I know if you don't want to be late for your own birthday you need to find yourself an outfit so  we can go see Kiwoo and Eddy,"

"I already know what I'm buying, but we also need new shoes," she pointed out.

"We have shoes at home,"

"What's your point?" she raised an eyebrow.

"You're avoiding BM," I stated.

"Yep, now new shoes," she handed me the bag leaving the store.

She continued around the shopping centre until we both had an outfit including shoes and accessories.

Then she decided we needed to get something to eat, or at least a coffee so we sat down in a little coffee shop. Her phone started ringing, again, it had been raining all day and she hadn't answered it once. At first, I thought it was BM but he would have given up by now so I was guessing it was probably her parents.

"Do you want to share a Cesar salad?" she asked rolling her eyes at her phone rejecting the call.

"Sure,"

BM

I'd given up on trying to call her, she wasn't going to answer so I would just have to go to the club tonight and see her then. She probably won't be too happy with the idea but she'll also be annoyed and both me and herself when she gets over her tantrum. I  have never missed one of her birthdays and I wasn't going to stop now just because she was mad at me, especially when her family wasn't going to be here.

"Phone, I'm off the help Jae with some stuff," Sam stated, putting my mobile on the bar top and walking out the front door. Thea's mum's name was flashing across the screen.

"Hey mum," I answered.

"Hey, have you seen Thea today?"

"Not yet, I'll see her later at her get together,"

"I thought her party was tomorrow?"

"It is, but she's decided to have a get together at Drew's tonight because it's her actual birthday and I think she just wants to be around those closest to her to celebrate before having a lot of people,"

"I think she's mad at us for not making it down there,"

"She understands that you can't get away from work, she probably out shopping and can't hear her phone," I explained.

THEA

We sat down in the salon chairs, Kiwoo started my hair while Eddy started Charlie's makeup.

"Bitch, who has been marking you?" Eddy raised an eyebrow at Charlie pointing out the mark on her neck.

"What?" she frowned.

"You have a hickey on your neck. What are you? In high school?"

"She's not," I mumbled before laughing at the comment, that earnt me a glare from her.

"So, who marked you?" Eddy pried.

"Uh," Charlie froze which just made Eddy more curious, I noticed Yuri walking in the door right behind Minsung. The words left my mouth before I had a chance to think about it first.

"Yuri did,"  I pointed at him, he tilted his head slightly at me.

"What did I do?"

"You left a hickey on Charlie's neck,"

"Oh that, yeah I did that," he nodded with a smirk covering for us giving me a look to let me know that I would have to explain later.

"Oh, are you coming tonight?" I asked trying to divert the conversation.

"Are you offering?" he smirked.

We all chatted away, Yuri kept giving both Charlie and eye side smirks which got a little distracting, I think it made Charlie feel a little awkward. By the time both of us had our hair and makeup done, we had just enough time to get dressed and make our way to the club which is exactly what I had planned for.

I did want to see BM, really I did, we always saw each other on our birthdays even if we were both busy or mad at each other. But I get mad every time that I look at his face, he's my safe place and I feel like my safe place have been compromised and what's worse is he doesn't even see why I'm so upset about it and he hasn't made any attempt to apologise.

"Let's get dressed," I chirped as my phone started ringing again.

"You can use the staff rooms," Kiwoo pointed to the stairs that lead up to their staff only area.

"Thanks," I smiled picking up our shopping bags and answering my phone.

"Hey, my mum,"

"Hey my baby," she greeted before switching me over to loudspeaker so that her, dad and my little brother could sing me a happy birthday,"

"Thank you," I sighed as I walked into the staff room.

"We've been trying to call you all day," My dad scolded.

"Sorry, I was out shopping with Charlie and I guess I must have forgotten to take my phone off silent," I lied.

"Did you have a good day at least? What did you get up too?" he asked.

"I did, Charlie and I went shopping for some new clothes, then we got our hair and makeup done. We've had a bit of a girls day, it was fun,"

"So you haven't seen anyone else?"

"Grandma, Nana, and all of the aunts and uncles have called, everyone else I'm seeing tonight, I'm actually about to get dressed and head over to the get-together thing,"

"Alright then,"

"Okay, it's just me," Mum's voice became the only one to fill the receiver.

"Okay,"

"Is BM going to be at the get-together tonight?" she pried. She was good at that, trying to pry into my business.

"It is my birthday,"

"And form the tone I got from him earlier I got the feeling that you two are arguing,"

"What did he tell you?" I sighed.

"He told me that he was going to see you at your gathering tonight, but I'm getting from that attitude, that's not the case,"

"Mum, I really have to get dressed now, thank you for the Happy Birthday and the money, I'll call you tomorrow, I love you,"

"I love you too,"

SAM

"What time are they suppose to be here?" Austin asked.

Pretty much everyone that was supposed to be here was here, except Charlie and Thea, they seemed to be running late but that wasn't really that unusual and it had only been ten minutes. Drew had done a pretty nice job with the whole club set up. The place looked like it was an actual birthday party, there were balloons everywhere and all kinds of food that I doubted would be eaten, especially with everyone drinking. He's called Jae earlier to go and pick up the cake that Charlie had made and then had to call me because neither of them could remember the type of ice cream cake that Thea had on every birthday.

"I'm sure they'll be here soon," Drew shrugged.

"Who's late for their own party?" Junsun commented.

"Probably you," Koosung shrugged.

"She's on her way, they were just waiting for someone to get ready," Shawn stated.

"Who, everyone is already here?" I frowned.

"I don't know she didn't say," he shrugged.

"Maybe it's BM," Jae stated through the DJ booth microphone.

"I doubt it," I murmured.

"Why isn't BM coming?" McKay frowned.

"They're arguing," Dabit filled him in.

"About what?" Mckay raised an eyebrow.

"No idea," Dabit shrugged.

Dabit and Mckay were Thea's other friends, she'd known them since primary school but they didn't really see each other much anymore, just on their birthdays.

"She said it's Yuri," Shawn answered our curiosity.

Of course, it's Yuri, I don't understand her obsession with him. He's her ex-boyfriend's friend, why did she have to befriend him and what was so great about him that she sleeps with him all the time. I just don't get it. He's not even that attractive.

"Who's Yuri?" Doobin asked.

"Charlie's casual sex outlet," Jae stated. I just rolled my eyes.

CHARLIE

We walked into the club, Yuri, was right behind us, Kiwoo and Minsung were going to make their way over once Kiwoo had closed the salon. I could already hear music playing, but it wasn't as loud as it normally was and judging from the random goat sounds that kept sneaking their way into the song I was guessing that Jae was behind the DJ booth.

I almost stopped walking when I noticed Doobin sitting in the booth next to Shawn.

"Dude," I hissed under my breath.

"What?" Thea frowned.

"Why is Doobin here?"

"Doobin's here?" Yuri raised an eyebrow. He had thought it was hilarious when Thea explained the hickey on my neck, she could have done it with a little less enthusiasm, and she definitely could have not had so much fun laughing at me with Yuri. But he was cool with covering for me, his only question was 'is he attractive?'.

"Yeah, the one over there without the sleeves," Thea smirked as I glared at her.

"Nice," Yuri raised his hand expecting me to high five him.

"I'm not going to high five you," I frowned. he grabbed my wrist and smacked out hands together.

"If you're not going to sleep with him I can right?"

"He's definitely not going to sleep with you," I shook my head.

"Then you should totally get on that," he encouraged.

"Would you shut up, I don't need everyone knowing, especially not his brother," I frowned.

"Did you sleep with him too?"

"What? No,  I work with him,"

"I sleep with him," Thea stated making her way to the group.

We followed and sat down across from Doobin and Shawn, which was Thea's doing I'm sure, Doobin smirked at me taking a sip from the beer bottle in his hand, it was unfairly attractive.

THEA

"So, do you want your present now or tomorrow?" Koosung asked taking a sip from his glass.

"Tomorrow I guess, but you didn't have to get me anything," I shrugged.

"Okay, I'm off then," he stated, getting up from his seat.

"Where are you going?" Shawn frowned.

"She said she wants her present tomorrow," he shrugged.

"And that has what to do with you leaving?" McKay raised an eyebrow.

"I am her present," he announced but sat back down.

"I wouldn't say no," I nodded with a smirk.

"He is offensively hot," Charlie agreed.

"Oh, you're flirting with me again," Koosung pointed at Charlie.

"No," she shook her head.

"Why are you punishing me for sleeping with her, I'm not the only one, no offence," he frowned at her.

"Because you're my work wife,"

"Work wife? You mean work husband?"

"No, I mean work wife," she stated, getting up from the table to go see Jae who was still in the DJ booth.

Most people would assume it was to actually see Jae, maybe to stop talking to Koosung, but in reality, it was to get away from Doobin. No one else would have noticed except Yuri judging by the way he gave me a smirk when she left the table, that Doobin kept making pervy faces at her. Well, they probably didn't look like pervy faces to everyone else but when you know that the two have slept together then S.E.X was written all over his face.

I'm pretty sure the only reason that it was actually making Charlie uncomfortable was that he was Shawn's little brother, and I stress the little brother bit, he was 6 years younger than us. I don't think it would end well if Shawn ever found out, I mean he would eventually have to forgive Doobin, but Charlie not so much and they work together so it's not like it would be as simple as not seeing each other again.

Doobin's eye's followed her across the room without any effort at all, I was guessing he'd had a crush on her for a while. Every now and again Charlie would look back towards the group, assumingly to check if Doobin was still staring at her, which he was.

"Stop it, you're making her uncomfortable," Shawn frowned at his brother.

"I don't think I am," Doobin stated.

"She left the table," Shawn pointed it, Doobin just shrugged.

"Who wants a drink?" I asked.

"We all have a drink, except you," Drew said as he placed a tray of shot glasses full of green liquid with a small slice of pineapple on the rim of the glass.

"Try these," he gestured for us to take one.

"What is it?" McKay frowned.

"It looks like leprechaun pee," Dabit pulled a face.

"I call  'The Thea'" He sounded pretty proud of himself.

"Because it's little?" Jae came up behind him, picking up a shot glass.

"I mean kind of," Drew nodded.

"Because everyone has a shot?" Jae smirked, I couldn't help but laugh at that one.

"Nice," I nodded.

"Would you just try it," Drew sighed.

"Why do we have to try it but you aren't," Sam asked.

"Because he's the only one who hasn't?" Jae continued with his insults.

"You're pretty quick tonight, huh?" Charlie asked.

"It's her birthday, it's hard not to," he shrugged.

"3..2..1," Yuri counted down and all at once we tried the green shot.

First, it was sweet then there was a huge kick of alcohol, everyone's reactions were mostly the same which made me feel a little better about feeling like I'd been kicked in the chest.

"What is in that?" Sam frowned.

"It's good," Yuri nodded.

"It's got a nice kick," Austin agreed.

Most of them liked it, I wasn't sure Same ore Jae was a fan but they don't drink a whole lot of hard liquor. I knew there was pineapple juice and Midori but I couldn't figure out it Gin or Rum that was delivering the kick.

"It's Pineapple juice, Midori, Gin, and a little bit of mint,"

"So why do you call it the Thea?" Shawn asked.

"It's little, is a little bit sweet, but has a big kick, also it's green,"

"Can we call them Thea shorts instead of shots?" Jae smirked.

BM

I hesitated outside of the club. Maybe I should just go home and wait for her to cool off completely. I didn't want to upset her on her birthday, but at the same time, I didn't want her to be upset about this when she had cooled off. I sighed and walked towards the entrance, there was music playing and I could hear people laughing before I could see them.

"Hey! I thought you weren't coming?" McKay shouted from across the room. Thea, in the middle of laughing at something someone had said, turned around and the happiness on her face dropped the instant she saw me.

I can't say it didn't hurt a little to see her look at me with disappointment and disdain, but I can't ignore the hurt that she let slip through her hard expression.

"Who told you?" she frowned, then turned her expression towards Drew he just turned around and hid behind the bar.

"Be mad, but I wasn't going to miss your birthday," I shrugged.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes.

"I don't think I have ever seen you two fight," Dabit commented.

"Drew, can I have more Thea's please?" she asked as she drank the rest of the colourfull cocktail in front of her.

"Thea's?" I raised an eyebrow sitting down at the bar, I didn't think I should push my luck by sitting at the table.

"Yeah, I thought it only appropriate to name a drink after her for her birthday, besides I'm sure they'll make me the money back that I'll have lost for closing the club for the night," he joked.

"I never asked you to close the club," she shot over her shoulder.

"Why are you two arguing?" McKay pried.

"Because BM thinks I'm a whore,"

"I never called you a whore," I sighed with a frown.

"Shut up BM, don't set her off," Drew muttered quietly.

"You may as well have,"

THEA

Out of the corner of my eye I seen Charlie gesturing for Doobin to follow her as she wandered off to the toilet, clearly taking advantage of the fact all the attention was on both BM and I. I was going to drop the whole thing, but with a mixture of not wanting them to get caught, and the alcohol influence, I couldn't let it go.

"You let everyone else attack you, but the second I do it I'm a horrible person?" BM raised an eyebrow.

"You're not everyone else, you're my best friend, you're the reassurance that everyone else is wrong. They all joke sure, but sometimes I take it seriously and the fact that you turned around and agreed with them felt like the joke was over. You're not supposed to agree with everyone else, at least not to my face, you're supposed to be my safe place and instead, you turned around and stabbed me in the back," I shot.

CHARLIE

"Take your shirt off, I'm sick of looking at you through clothes,"

I barely had time to finish my sentence before he was pressing himself into me. I made a note to thank Thea for picking out a skirt, it was far less work.

"Try not to leave marks on me this time," I murmured as his lips connected with my neck.

"No promised," he hummed into my skin which just sent a vibration through my body.

His hands found my waist and he lifted me up on the counter, nearly sitting me in the sink. his hands slid from my waist to my thighs and up my shirt. My back involuntarily arched as his fingers slide under the waistband of my underwear and pulled them off in one smooth motion.

"What did I say about that shirt," my voice came out a little breathless, he didn't respond, he just pulled his shirt over his head as my hands found their way to his belt. I clearly wasn't doing it fast enough because he took over and instead my hands busied themselves with feeing up his perfectly contoured chest.

He positioned himself and I almost let him, until the rational part of my brain managed to gain control for a split second.

"Wait," I placed my hand firmly on his chest stopping him from moving forward.

"What? We don't really have time to chat," there was a sense of urgency that flickered through the lust in his eyes, lust that almost made me forget why I had stopped him in the first place.

"This," was the only word I could manage to say, pulling the condom packed from where I'd hidden it in my bra.

"Seriously?" he raised an eyebrow.

"You're smarter than that. But if you don't want to wear it, then I'm out," he just rolled his eyes ripping the packet open with his teeth.

"Try to stay quiet," he smirked.

THEA

"Wouldn't be the first time he's stabbed someone," Jae muttered earning a glare from Sam.

I saw Shawn looking around for his brother, then he stood up, he does that when he hasn't seen Doobin for a while, being that Doobin gets himself into trouble Shawn tries to keep an eye on him to minimise the trouble Doobin can cause. Of course, if he continued to look for Doobin then he was going to find Doobin in more than just trouble.

"Thea," BM sighed, Shawn took a few steps towards the bathroom, I panicked not really sure how I was supposed to stop him, I also felt obligated seeing as it was kind of my fault that the two were currently boning in the bathroom. The words left my mouth before I could stop them.

"I slept with Drew," it was like word vomit, the weight of the secret I've been carrying for almost ten years lifted and my legs stopped working. I dropped to the floor. Everyone froze, Shawn looked at me worried, not because of what I had just said but because of my being on the floor.

Everyone was looking at me like I was some kind of exotic zoo animal, I felt like I was going to be sick, and the anger and betrayal on BM's face made me want to hide under a rock, but I settled for hiding my face in my hands.

CHARLIE

Everyone was weird, Doobin had come out ten minutes ago. I raised an eyebrow at him he just shrugged. BM had left, Thea was looking down at the glasses on the table, all empty, she looked guilty. Shawn looked mad, everyone else just felt awkward.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Jae frowned.

"What?"

"Thea just told everyone," he shrugged.

"Thea, what did you do?" I asked cautiously.

"I honestly can't believe you to slept together," Sam shook his head.

"Who slept with who?" I panicked.

"I slept with Drew," Thea muttered, her expression emotionless as she drank what was left in her glass.

"It was a long time ago,"

"Oh," relief washed over me.

"Oh? So you did know?" Jae frowned at me. I didn't, but if I said that then it was going to look weird that I was so casual about it.

"Yeah,"

"How long ago?" McKay frowned.

"Before you," Drew commented.

"Wait, seriously?" McKay frowned.

"Why is Shawn so mad?" I asked Jae quietly.

"BM blew up at Thea, so Shawn got mad and made him leave," he explained.

"Oh,"

"How about we stop talking about this and get back to enjoying our selves?" Austin suggested.

"I have an idea," Koosung smirked at Jae.

"Already on it," Jae nodded.

"Ah, no," I pointed between the two.

SAM

Jae made his way over to the DJ booth, a few seconds later Work started to play, Charlie rolled her eyes.

"Seriously?"

"We'll do it with you," Austin nodded, pulling Shawn to his feet, the other dancers followed suit and they started to dance to the choreography. Shawn's bad mood seemed to fade rather quickly, they were all laughing.

Doobin was all but grinding on her, Shawn intercepted and Charlie avoided him but he still made faces at her that insinuated he wanted to sleep with her. It didn't make me feel any better when Koosung replaced Doobin. It was at that point that I realised Thea and Charlie where the only two girls her, which made me a little bit more than a little mad.

Thea was still down, placed a drink down in front of her, which she sipped at but it didn't change her expression. I mouthed the word 'cake' at him, he nodded letting the others know without Thea overhearing. A minute later everyone was singing Happy Birthday placing the pineapple cake that Charlie had made in front of her. A small smile found its way to her face.

CHARLIE

"Here," Drew stated placing the ice cream cake down in front of her with a spoon.

"You're not mad at me?"

"It was bound to come out eventually," he shrugged at her.

"It was word vomit," she sighed.

"That's why I'm not mad," he joked.

"It's better to come out when he is already being a dick, than for you guys to get good and then it comes out,"

"Also you kind of deserved it for telling BM about tonight anyway," she agreed.

"So it wasn't worded vomit?" he teased.

"I guess we'll never know," she shrugged picking up the spoon.

"Photo time," Jae stated, probably another attempt to lighten the mood.

He lifted his phone and everyone tried to get into the frame.

"Someone lifts up Thea, she's so short the camera can't see her," Jae commented.

"I'm sitting down jackass," she frowned at him.

Austin and Shawn lifted her into a seat made of their arms. After the photo everyone sat back down at the booth, continued drinking and ate the cake I had made, they kept telling me how good it was and it better be with how many times I had to sift that damn flour for the cake to be fluffy and moist.

Thea because eating the ice cream cake until she got an ice cream headache, then continued because by that point she was too drunk to realise that it was the cake that was causing her pain.

"Do you want me to take her home with me tonight?" Shawn asked.

"It doesn't bother me either way, ask her," I shrugged.

"Hey Thea, do you want  to go home to your own bed or do you want to come with me,"

"I'll come with you," she smirked with a wink.

"Damn girl," Austin laughed.

"Want to join? I could totally go for a Shawn, Austin sandwich," she winked.

"Have you considered apologising to her?" he raised an eyebrow.

"For what? Pointing out what she already knew and what everyone else tells her? Why should I apologise for treating her the same as everyone else does?"

"Because you're not everyone else to her bro, you're supposed to protect her, not attack her,"

"Maybe she should learn to protect herself, I'm supposed to be her friend, not her bodyguard,"

JACKSON

"So are you going to come tomorrow?"

"What's tomorrow?" He frowned at me.

"Thea's birthday party,"

"Oh right, no,"

"What, why?"

"Why would I?"

"Because she invited you?"

"She only invited me because she invited you and didn't want to leave you awkward like she did at the bar," he pointed out.

"All the more reason for you to come,"

"So I can sit there with a bunch of people I don't know? No thank you,"

"You'll know me, and Thea, and Charlie,"

"I don't know Thea and I don't want to know Charlie," he shrugged.

"Why, what's wrong with Charlie?"

"She's moody, rude, and a little on the hoe side," he shrugged again.

"You met her on a bad day, you don't know anything about her.  How annoyed do you get when people assume you're a rude trust fun kid because you don't talk a lot?"

"That's different,"

"Not really, you're judging Charlie on one meeting without even knowing her,"

"I don't need to know her," He mumbled turning his attention back to his phone.

"You're just mad that the girl you stalked on Instagram was mean to you," I commented.

CHARLIE

"Shopping first?" Thea asked pulling out of the driveway.

"Do you want to walk around looking for clothes after you get your hair and make up some?"

"No," she frowned.

"Then shopping first," I nodded.

"Let's go then," she started driving in the direction of the shopping centre.

"So what are you wearing tonight?" she side glanced at me.

"I don't know, shorts and a shirt," I shrugged flicking through the radio stations.

"Ew, what no," she frowned.

"What do you mean ew?" I raised an eyebrow.

"You're not wearing ordinary civilian clothes at my birthday party,"

"Civilian clothes?"

"Yes, I'm getting a new outfit, so are you,"

I just let out a sigh, there was no point arguing with her because she would keep pushing and start to become irritating if I refused.

SAM

"Did you two know?" BM came home in a bad mood.

"Know what?" Had asked not looking up from his phone.

"That Thea was having a thing at Drew’s tonight for her birthday?"

"Oh, that? You owe me $20," Jae stated side glancing at me.

"For what?" I frowned.

"I bet you $20 that Drew would tell him,"

"I never agreed to that,"

"So you both knew?" BM rolled his eyes.

"Basically," Jae nodded.

"Thea didn't want us to tell you because she didn't want you there, and it is her birthday," I explained.

"She is really blowing this out of proportion, it's getting ridiculous,"

"She's mad, she kind of has a right to be," Jae commented.

"It was a few little comments that she has heard a thousand times before,"

"Not from you," he countered.

"I don't think she's so mad at the comments as much as she is that you haven't apologised and just assumed she would act like nothing happened," I stated.

"You still haven't apologised?" Jae frowned at him.

"For what? She's acting like a child,"

"Your both acting like children, just apologise and stop pulling us in the middle of your tantrum," Jae stated getting up.

"Where are you going?"

"Charlie asked me to do something for her,"

"You're actually going to do something?"

"It beats sitting here listening to McWhiney Pants over there, besides, my bro asked me to do it and I'm a good bro," he made a small stab at BM before he left.

THEA

"What about this?" I held up a red and black low cut dress.

"It's cute, but I feel like it needs to have some kind of green on it," She shrugged.

"You're not wrong," I nodded as she pulled a smug face.

"Yeah I know, always right," I waved her off.

"You say it more than I do,"

"Whatever, so, what are the chances of you letting me choose your outfit?"

"You only want to do that so you don't have to look for yourself," she pointed out

"You don't know that," she frowned.

"Whatever, go ahead,"

"Who is coming tonight anyway?" she let out a sigh.

"The usual people, some old friends, the boys from 1million, Yuri who will probably bring Minsung who will definitely bring Kiwoo," I shrugged purposely throwing the 1million boys in the middle.

I knew Doobin would be there, but I also knew everyone else would be there and the club was closed to everyone but us so it was going to be a little difficult for them to sneak off together. But that being said if they were to sneak off together she may as well look good. I had already picked her out an outfit before I'd even asked her if I could. The mannequin in the store window was dressed in an outfit that practically screamed Charlie, of course, it needed a few additions, like fishnets and probably a belt because her clothes bearly fit her more than once, I swear she loosed weight from simply breathing.

CHARLIE

"Seriously? Are the fishnets really necessary?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yuri's going to be there," she shrugged paying for it, I'd tried to argue with her but her response had been 'I'm not paying for it, mum is'. Her parents had sent her guilt money on top of money for her birthday because they couldn't make it down, her brother had done the same. She was acting like it didn't bother her but it was just an act. It was the third birthday they had missed. and it was going to be the second Christmas.

"Plus, you wouldn't have tried it on if you didn't like it," she pointed out.

"Your turn," I stated.

"You know I'm right,"

"I know if you don't want to be late for your own birthday you need to find yourself an outfit so we can go see Kiwoo and Eddy,"

"I already know what I'm buying, but we also need new shoes," she pointed out.

"We have shoes at home,"

"What's your point?" she raised an eyebrow.

"You're avoiding BM," I stated.

"Yep, now new shoes," she handed me the bag leaving the store.

She continued around the shopping centre until we both had an outfit including shoes and accessories.

Then she decided we needed to get something to eat, or at least a coffee so we sat down in a little coffee shop. Her phone started ringing, again, it had been raining all day and she hadn't answered it once. At first, I thought it was BM but he would have given up by now so I was guessing it was probably her parents.

"Do you want to share a Cesar salad?" she asked rolling her eyes at her phone rejecting the call.

"Sure,"

BM

I'd given up on trying to call her, she wasn't going to answer so I would just have to go to the club tonight and see her then. She probably won't be too happy with the idea but she'll also be annoyed at both me and herself when she gets over her tantrum. I have never missed one of her birthdays and I wasn't going to stop now just because she was mad at me, especially when her family wasn't going to be here.

"Phone, I'm off the help Jae with some stuff," Sam stated, putting my mobile on the bar top and walking out the front door. Thea's mum's name was flashing across the screen.

"Hey mum," I answered.

"Hey, have you seen Thea today?"

"Not yet, I'll see her later at her get together,"

"I thought her party was tomorrow?"

"It is, but she's decided to have a get together at Drew's tonight because it's her actual birthday and I think she just wants to be around those closest to her to celebrate before having a lot of people,"

"I think she's mad at us for not making it down there,"

"She understands that you can't get away from work, she probably out shopping and can't hear her phone," I explained.

THEA

We sat down in the salon chairs, Kiwoo started my hair while Eddy started Charlie's makeup.

"Bitch, who has been marking you?" Eddy raised an eyebrow at Charlie pointing out the mark on her neck.

"What?" she frowned.

"You have a hickey on your neck. What are you? In high school?"

"She's not," I mumbled before laughing at the comment, that earnt me a glare from her.

"So, who marked you?" Eddy pried.

"Uh," Charlie froze which just made Eddy more curious, I noticed Yuri walking in the door right behind Minsung. The words left my mouth before I had a chance to think about it first.

"Yuri did,"  I pointed at him, he tilted his head slightly at me.

"What did I do?"

"You left a hickey on Charlie's neck,"

"Oh that, yeah I did that," he nodded with a smirk covering for us giving me a look to let me know that I would have to explain later.

"Oh, are you coming tonight?" I asked trying to divert the conversation.

"Are you offering?" he smirked.

We all chatted away, Yuri kept giving both Charlie and me side smirks which got a little distracting, I think it made Charlie feel a little awkward. By the time both of us had our hair and makeup done, we had just enough time to get dressed and make our way to the club which is exactly what I had planned for.

I did want to see BM, really I did, we always saw each other on our birthdays even if we were both busy or mad at each other. But I get mad every time that I look at his face, he's my safe place and I feel like my safe place have been compromised and what's worse is he doesn't even see why I'm so upset about it and he hasn't made any attempt to apologise.

"Let's get dressed," I chirped as my phone started ringing again.

"You can use the staff rooms," Kiwoo pointed to the stairs that lead up to their staff only area.

"Thanks," I smiled picking up our shopping bags and answering my phone.

"Hey, my mum,"

"Hey my baby," she greeted before switching me over to loudspeaker so that her, dad and my little brother could sing me a happy birthday,"

"Thank you," I sighed as I walked into the staff room.

"We've been trying to call you all day," My dad scolded.

"Sorry, I was out shopping with Charlie and I guess I must have forgotten to take my phone off silent," I lied.

"Did you have a good day at least? What did you get up too?" he asked.

"I did, Charlie and I went shopping for some new clothes, then we got our hair and makeup done. We've had a bit of a girls day, it was fun,"

"So you haven't seen anyone else?"

"Grandma, Nana, and all of the aunts and uncles have called, everyone else I'm seeing tonight, I'm actually about to get dressed and head over to the get-together thing,"

"Alright then,"

"Okay, it's just me," Mum's voice became the only one to fill the receiver.

"Okay,"

"Is BM going to be at the get-together tonight?" she pried. She was good at that, trying to pry into my business.

"It is my birthday,"

"And form the tone I got from him earlier I got the feeling that you two are arguing,"

"What did he tell you?" I sighed.

"He told me that he was going to see you at your gathering tonight, but I'm getting from that attitude, that's not the case,"

"Mum, I really have to get dressed now, thank you for the Happy Birthday and the money, I'll call you tomorrow, I love you,"

"I love you too,"

SAM

"What time are they suppose to be here?" Austin asked.

Pretty much everyone that was supposed to be here was here, except Charlie and Thea, they seemed to be running late but that wasn't really that unusual and it had only been ten minutes. Drew had done a pretty nice job with the whole club set up. The place looked like it was an actual birthday party, there were balloons everywhere and all kinds of food that I doubted would be eaten, especially with everyone drinking. He's called Jae earlier to go and pick up the cake that Charlie had made and then had to call me because neither of them could remember the type of ice cream cake that Thea had on every birthday.

"I'm sure they'll be here soon," Drew shrugged.

"Who's late for their own party?" Junsun commented.

"Probably you," Koosung shrugged.

"She's on her way, they were just waiting for someone to get ready," Shawn stated.

"Who, everyone is already here?" I frowned.

"I don't know she didn't say," he shrugged.

"Maybe it's BM," Jae stated through the DJ booth microphone.

"I doubt it," I murmured.

"Why isn't BM coming?" McKay frowned.

"They're arguing," Dabit filled him in.

"About what?" Mckay raised an eyebrow.

"No idea," Dabit shrugged.

Dabit and Mckay were Thea's other friends, she'd known them since primary school but they didn't really see each other much anymore, just on their birthdays.

"She said it's Yuri," Shawn answered our curiosity.

Of course, it's Yuri, I don't understand her obsession with him. He's her ex-boyfriend's friend, why did she have to befriend him and what was so great about him that she sleeps with him all the time. I just don't get it. He's not even that attractive.

"Who's Yuri?" Doobin asked.

"Charlie's casual sex outlet," Jae stated. I just rolled my eyes.

CHARLIE

We walked into the club, Yuri, was right behind us, Kiwoo and Minsung were going to make their way over once Kiwoo had closed the salon. I could already hear music playing, but it wasn't as loud as it normally was and judging from the random goat sounds that kept sneaking their way into the song I was guessing that Jae was behind the DJ booth.

I almost stopped walking when I noticed Doobin sitting in the booth next to Shawn.

"Dude," I hissed under my breath.

"What?" Thea frowned.

"Why is Doobin here?"

"Doobin's here?" Yuri raised an eyebrow. He had thought it was hilarious when Thea explained the hickey on my neck, she could have done it with a little less enthusiasm, and she definitely could have not had so much fun laughing at me with Yuri. But he was cool with covering for me, his only question was 'is he attractive?'.

"Yeah, the one over there without the sleeves," Thea smirked as I glared at her.

"Nice," Yuri raised his hand expecting me to high five him.

"I'm not going to high five you," I frowned. he grabbed my wrist and smacked out hands together.

"If you're not going to sleep with him I can right?"

"He's definitely not going to sleep with you," I shook my head.

"Then you should totally get on that," he encouraged.

"Would you shut up, I don't need everyone knowing, especially not his brother," I frowned.

"Did you sleep with him too?"

"What? No, I work with him,"

"I sleep with him," Thea stated making her way to the group.

We followed and sat down across from Doobin and Shawn, which was Thea's doing I'm sure, Doobin smirked at me taking a sip from the beer bottle in his hand, it was unfairly attractive.

THEA

"So, do you want your present now or tomorrow?" Koosung asked taking a sip from his glass.

"Tomorrow I guess, but you didn't have to get me anything," I shrugged.

"Okay, I'm off then," he stated, getting up from his seat.

"Where are you going?" Shawn frowned.

"She said she wants her present tomorrow," he shrugged.

"And that has what to do with you leaving?" McKay raised an eyebrow.

"I am her present," he announced but sat back down.

"I wouldn't say no," I nodded with a smirk.

"He is offensively hot," Charlie agreed.

"Oh, you're flirting with me again," Koosung pointed at Charlie.

"No," she shook her head.

"Why are you punishing me for sleeping with her, I'm not the only one, no offence," he frowned at her.

"Because you're my work wife,"

"Work wife? You mean work husband?"

"No, I mean work wife," she stated, getting up from the table to go see Jae who was still in the DJ booth.

Most people would assume it was to actually see Jae, maybe to stop talking to Koosung, but in reality, it was to get away from Doobin. No one else would have noticed except Yuri judging by the way he gave me a smirk when she left the table, that Doobin kept making pervy faces at her. Well, they probably didn't look like pervy faces to everyone else but when you know that the two have slept together then S.E.X was written all over his face.

I'm pretty sure the only reason that it was actually making Charlie uncomfortable was that he was Shawn's little brother, and I stress the little brother bit, he was 6 years younger than us. I don't think it would end well if Shawn ever found out, I mean he would eventually have to forgive Doobin, but Charlie not so much and they work together so it's not like it would be as simple as not seeing each other again.

Doobin's eye's followed her across the room without any effort at all, I was guessing he'd had a crush on her for a while. Every now and again Charlie would look back towards the group, assumingly to check if Doobin was still staring at her, which he was.

"Stop it, you're making her uncomfortable," Shawn frowned at his brother.

"I don't think I am," Doobin stated.

"She left the table," Shawn pointed it, Doobin just shrugged.

"Who wants a drink?" I asked.

"We all have a drink, except you," Drew said as he placed a tray of shot glasses full of green liquid with a small slice of pineapple on the rim of the glass.

"Try these," he gestured for us to take one.

"What is it?" McKay frowned.

"It looks like leprechaun pee," Dabit pulled a face.

"I call  'The Thea'" He sounded pretty proud of himself.

"Because it's little?" Jae came up behind him, picking up a shot glass.

"I mean kind of," Drew nodded.

"Because everyone has a shot?" Jae smirked, I couldn't help but laugh at that one.

"Nice," I nodded.

"Would you just try it," Drew sighed.

"Why do we have to try it but you aren't," Sam asked.

"Becuase he's the only one who hasn't?" Jae continued with his insults.

"You're pretty quick tonight, huh?" Charlie asked.

"It's her birthday, it's hard not to," he shrugged.

"3..2..1," Yuri counted down and all at once we tried the green shot.

First, it was sweet then there was a huge kick of alcohol, everyone's reactions were mostly the same which made me feel a little better about feeling like I'd been kicked in the chest.

"What is in that?" Sam frowned.

"It's good," Yuri nodded.

"It's got a nice kick," Austin agreed.

Most of them liked it, I wasn't sure Sam or Jae was a fan but they don't drink a whole lot of hard liquor. I knew there was pineapple juice and Midori but I couldn't figure out it Gin or Rum that was delivering the kick.

"It's Pineapple juice, Midori, Gin, and a little bit of mint,"

"So why do you call it the Thea?" Shawn asked.

"It's little, is a little bit sweet, but has a big kick, also it's green,"

"Can we call them Thea shorts instead of shots?" Jae smirked.

BM

I hesitated outside of the club. Maybe I should just go home and wait for her to cool off completely. I didn't want to upset her on her birthday, but at the same time, I didn't want her to be upset about this when she had cooled off. I sighed and walked towards the entrance, there was music playing and I could hear people laughing before I could see them.

"Hey! I thought you weren't coming?" McKay shouted from across the room. Thea, in the middle of laughing at something someone had said, turned around and the happiness on her face dropped the instant she saw me.

I can't say it didn't hurt a little to see her look at me with disappointment and disdain, but I can't ignore the hurt that she let slip through her hard expression.

"Who told you?" she frowned, then turned her expression towards Drew he just turned around and hid behind the bar.

"Be mad, but I wasn't going to miss your birthday," I shrugged.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes.

"I don't think I have ever seen you two fight," Dabit commented.

"Drew, can I have more Thea's please?" she asked as she drank the rest of the colourfull cocktail in front of her.

"Thea's?" I raised an eyebrow sitting down at the bar, I didn't think I should push my luck by sitting at the table.

"Yeah, I thought it only appropriate to name a drink after her for her birthday, besides I'm sure they'll make me the money back that I'll have lost for closing the club for the night," he joked.

"I never asked you to close the club," she shot over her shoulder.

"Why are you two arguing?" McKay pried.

"Because BM thinks I'm a whore,"

"I never called you a whore," I sighed with a frown.

"Shut up BM, don't set her off," Drew muttered quietly.

"You may as well have,"

THEA

Out of the corner of my eye I seen Charlie gesturing for Doobin to follow her as she wandered off to the toilet, clearly taking advantage of the fact all the attention was on both BM and I. I was going to drop the whole thing, but with a mixture of not wanting them to get caught, and the alcohol influence, I couldn't let it go.

"You let everyone else attack you, but the second I do it I'm a horrible person?" BM raised an eyebrow.

"You're not everyone else, you're my best friend, you're the reassurance that everyone else is wrong. They all joke sure, but sometimes I take it seriously and the fact that you turned around and agreed with them felt like the joke was over. You're not supposed to agree with everyone else, at least not to my face, you're supposed to be my safe place and instead, you turned around and stabbed me in the back," I shot.

CHARLIE

"Take your shirt off, I'm sick of looking at you through clothes,"

I barely had time to finish my sentence before he was pressing himself into me. I made a note to thank Thea for picking out a skirt, it was far less work.

"Try not to leave marks on me this time," I murmured as his lips connected with my neck.

"No promised," he hummed into my skin which just sent a vibration through my body.

His hands found my waist and he lifted me up on the counter, nearly sitting me in the sink. his hands slid from my waist to my thighs and up my shirt. My back involuntarily arched as his fingers slide under the waistband of my underwear and pulled them off in one smooth motion.

"What did I say about that shirt," my voice came out a little breathless, he didn't respond, he just pulled his shirt over his head as my hands found their way to his belt. I clearly wasn't doing it fast enough because he took over and instead my hands busied themselves with feeing up his perfectly contoured chest.

He positioned himself and I almost let him, until the rational part of my brain managed to gain control for a split second.

"Wait," I placed my hand firmly on his chest stopping him from moving forward.

"What? We don't really have time to chat," there was a sense of urgency that flickered through the lust in his eyes, lust that almost made me forget why I had stopped him in the first place.

"This," was the only word I could manage to say, pulling the condom packed form where I'd hidden it in my bra.

"Seriously?" he raised an eyebrow.

"You're smarter than that. But if you don't want to wear it, then I'm out," he just rolled his eyes ripping the packet open with his teeth.

"Try to stay quiet," he smirked.

THEA

"Wouldn't be the first time he's stabbed someone," Jae muttered earning a glare from Sam.

I saw Shawn looking around for his brother, then he stood up, he does that when he hasn't seen Doobin for a while, being that Doobin gets himself into trouble Shawn tries to keep an eye on him to minimise the trouble Doobin can cause. Of course, if he continued to look for Doobin then he was going to find Doobin in more than just trouble.

"Thea," BM sighed, Shawn took a few steps towards the bathroom, I panicked not really sure how I was supposed to stop him, I also felt obligated seeing as it was kind of my fault that the two were currently boning in the bathroom. The words left my mouth before I could stop them.

"I slept with Drew," it was like word vomit, the weight of the secret I've been carrying for almost ten years lifted and my legs stopped working. I dropped to the floor. Everyone froze, Shawn looked at me worried, not because of what I had just said but because of my being on the floor.

Everyone was looking at me like I was some kind of exotic zoo animal, I felt like I was going to be sick, and the anger and betrayal on BM's face made me want to hide under a rock, but I settled for hiding my face in my hands.

CHARLIE

Everyone was weird, Doobin had come out ten minutes ago. I raised an eyebrow at him he just shrugged. BM had left, Thea was looking down at the glasses on the table, all empty, she looked guilty. Shawn looked mad, everyone else just felt awkward.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Jae frowned.

"What?"

"Thea just told everyone," he shrugged.

"Thea, what did you do?" I asked cautiously.

"I honestly can't believe you to slept together," Sam shook his head.

"Who slept with who?" I panicked.

"I slept with Drew," Thea muttered, her expression emotionless as she drank what was left in her glass.

"It was a long time ago,"

"Oh," relief washed over me.

"Oh? So you did know?" Jae frowned at me. I didn't, but if I said that then it was going to look weird that I was so casual about it.

"Yeah,"

"How long ago?" McKay frowned.

"Before you," Drew commented.

"Wait, seriously?" McKay frowned.

"Why is Shawn so mad?" I asked Jae quietly.

"BM blew up at Thea, so Shawn got mad and made him leave," he explained.

"Oh,"

"How about we stop talking about this and get back to enjoying our selves?" Austin suggested.

"I have an idea," Koosung smirked at Jae.

"Already on it," Jae nodded.

"Ah, no," I pointed between the two.

SAM

Jae made his way over to the DJ booth, a few seconds later Work started to play, Charlie rolled her eyes.

"Seriously?"

"We'll do it with you," Austin nodded, pulling Shawn to his feet, the other dancers followed suit and they started to dance to the choreography. Shawn's bad mood seemed to fade rather quickly, they were all laughing.

Doobin was all but grinding on her, Shawn intercepted and Charlie avoided him but he still made faces at her that insinuated he wanted to sleep with her. It didn't make me feel any better when Koosung replaced Doobin. It was at that point that I realised Thea and Charlie where the only two girls her, which made me a little bit more than a little mad.

Thea was still down, placed a drink down in front of her, which she sipped at but it didn't change her expression. I mouthed the word 'cake' at him, he nodded letting the others know without Thea overhearing. A minute later everyone was singing Happy Birthday placing the pineapple cake that Charlie had made in front of her. A small smile found its way to her face.

CHARLIE

"Here," Drew stated placing the ice cream cake down in front of her with a spoon.

"You're not mad at me?"

"It was bound to come out eventually," he shrugged at her.

"It was word vomit," she sighed.

"That's why I'm not mad," he joked.

"It's better to come out when he is already being a dick, than for you guys to get good and then it comes out,"

"Also you kind of deserved it for telling BM about tonight anyway," she agreed.

"So it wasn't worded vomit?" he teased.

"I guess we'll never know," she shrugged picking up the spoon.

"Photo time," Jae stated, probably another attempt to lighten the mood.

He lifted his phone and everyone tried to get into the frame.

"Someone lifts up Thea, she's so short the camera can't see her," Jae commented.

"I'm sitting down jackass," she frowned at him.

Austin and Shawn lifted her into a seat made of their arms. After the photo everyone sat back down at the booth, continued drinking and ate the cake I had made, they kept telling me how good it was and it better be with how many times I had to sift that damn flour for the cake to be fluffy and moist.

Thea because eating the ice cream cake until she got an ice cream headache, then continued because by that point she was too drunk to realise that it was the cake that was causing her pain.

"Do you want me to take her home with me tonight?" Shawn asked.

"It doesn't bother me either way, ask her," I shrugged.

"Hey Thea, do you want  to go home to your own bed or do you want to come with me,"

"I'll come with you," she smirked with a wink.

"Damn girl," Austin laughed.

"Want to join? I could totally go for a Shawn, Austin sandwich," she winked.