"Hell to you too." I responded sarcastically, turning around to continue putting some pizza on the plates. I turned my back to him and heard him deeply grunt. 

"I feel as if you don't want me here?" He rather questioned, with a kid-like voice. I chuckled to myself and turning back around to look at him, I bumped straight into his massive figure. He just stood there, but I tripped and stepped back, doing my best to keep my balance. 

"Ugh, you're so sweaty!" My nose scrunched up and my eyes squinted.  He carelessly looked down at me, a sly smile on his face. 

"And you like it?" He asked leaning closer to me with more of a mischevious smile. His smile turned into a huge grin, his teeth showed again as his hands went behind his back.  He still kept slowly leaning in and eyeing me for reaction. 

"No!" I pushed him away and walked pass him," And yes I mind you here." I added, answering his first question. I walked towards the entrance of the kitchen and turned back around due to his voice. 

"Well baby, I am on the team." He pouted fakly and started slowly and foolishly walking towards me. He passed me and chuckled, before facing me from the hallway. " And I hope to see that pretty ass of yours around." I smiled an obviously sarcastic smile and went back to the kitchen counter getting the pizza for the boys. 

I still silently prayed for Lilly to come soon.

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"I mean, like....why?" I heard Connor ask, apparently to someone.  My steps were hardly audible, as I walked downwards the wooden steps.  I was careful with observing the steps I take and carrying the pizza filled plate. 

"I don't even know man." Adrian's familiar voice answered his question, as I stepped at the last of the many steps. I was now completely downstairs. looking around the basement and then back at the boys. Their eyes soon shot towards me, as some of them smirked and some nicely smiled. 

All of them were here, which included my brother's friend, Adam Gonzalez. He is my brother's absolute best friend, known from birth. He is constantly around and honestly, I think even I could call him a good friend of mine. Cameron Collins. Adrian's older brother, but also my brother's pal. He was here too. Theodore Louis Davis. Just another best bud of my brother's. The one that I had a crush on when I was younger. The one that teases me the most, but also the one of my brother's overprotective friend just as my brother himself. Dexter Watson. Oliver's brother. He is a sweetheart, a true one. He is smart, funny and attractive, yeah. But also likes to behave himself as a two-year-old sometimes. He is adorable and a good soul, but likes to be a pain in the butt too.  Another friend of theirs was here. Adam's brother. Yes, it does seem as if my brother's friends have a sibling in the overly encouraged group, but Blake was different. He was Adrian's friend, and he did hang out with the others like Adrian, but he wasn;t as nearly as bad. Well at some point, even him, Blake Gibson, to clarify that, would be a bit kinky type of a regular boy his age. 

On the other note, Adrian was there, obviously. Of course, Ethan too. I mean they are on the team, but..still! If maybe just somehow, in a parallel world where I'm blessed enough, they wouldn't show up. 

"What's up girlfriend?" Theo joked as usual, while I made my way with a plate towards them, chuckling to myself. 

"Knock it off! I'm just being nice to you because of my brother here." I spoke seriously but chuckled almost immediately afterward, and placed the plate at the big round table. They were all around the basement, kicking the ball, playing video games, as they rushed from their place to the table. 

I started walking around and collecting their stuff. Some things like dirty towels and filthy clothes they'd leave all over the floor.  I mean, it's not like I was trying to be their maid or clean their mess, but I knew Connor would probably do nothing about it and mom was gonna come home tired, not wanting to meet this mess. 

"How about we play strip poker?" Theo's suggestion made everyone look at me, who ran around the room, suddenly stopping. My eyes grew wide, but I brushed it off and raised my eyebrows instead. Standing straight up from bending down to pick up one towel. 

"What? I'm the only girl! I wasn't even gonna play."  I immediately answered their unasked question, as soon as the remained towel was set across my arm. 

"You're not anymore!" I recognized Lilly's voice and chuckled to myself not even bothering to look up from the coffee table in front of the TV, where the boys threw all the video games around.  She walked casually down the stairs, and when she was at the boy's side she fist-bumped Theo, hugged Cameron and Dexter. She just smiled politely at Adrian and Ethan, quite forced smile if you ask me, as they responded the same, but she sort of high-fived Blake. 

"So....about that poker?" Ethan started, smirking. His eyes darting in between me and Lilly.  She smirked too, whereas I rolled my eyes. I was now just standing there, allowing them to reach an agreement without me. I don't want this. 

"Strip...poker." Blake corrected. " We are playing!" he stated, pointing at me. I gave him a challenging look as I slowly walked back to the stairs. His eyes followed me, as he raised his eyebrows as if waiting for my answer or even pleading me to agree on to play. I raised my eyebrows too, but with load of sarcasm in my opinion. 

"You go ahead! I don't even know how to play." I replied and now walked over to them, who were sitting around the table. I placed my elbow on Dexter's shoulder, my left hand on my hip. Silence mainly filled up the room, everyone waiting for anyone to speak. 

"Better yet!" Adrian suddenly said out loud, receiving laughter from everyone, even a bit shocked me. Connor did send him a glare, but also looked away, smiling giddily. His eyes were still on mine and I raised my eyebrows as he amusingly smiled. 

"Shut up." I snickered and right after looking away I slapped Lilly's arm, who I noticed winked at me. She snorted and pulled me close to her, hugging me softly, sideways. 

"Come on!" Lilly whined, now pulling my arm lightly.  My lips in a tight line, everyone's eyes on me. 

"How about we play something like beer pong..?" I suggested, " Whoever misses a cup has to take a sip and take a piece of clothing off." I smirked at my idea as they looked at me hafly wide-eyed  and hafly agreeing with my idea. Connor's eyes widened and I gave him a sympathetic look, letting him know I was just trying to get myself out of this. 

"Hey! You were the one that didn't want to have any alcohol around!" Connor scolded and I sighed at his words. My fingers went over my temple, as I rubbed it slowly. I really thought I was going to go through with this, but I did remember what I said. 

"Well, I'd rather have some alcohol around than take off my clothes in front of your horny friends!" I spoke, sounding slightly irritated. They all looked at me, holding in their laughter, but also a bit hurt. I knew better than to care, cause they were all that I'd refer to them as. I shrugged it off, looking down at my feet. 

"And what makes you think you won't miss and end up taking your clothes off anyway!?" Cameron asked the obvious, almost happy he caught me off guard. I firstly chuckled but remained sure in myself.  My head raising back up, as Lilly shook me to my senses. 

"Well.."I trailed off," I have faith in this rather than definitely losing in the stupid poker and stripping." I answered confidently. but failed to seem like that at the end as they all chuckled. 

"So we are playing then." Adrian stated, getting up and soon being followed by Connor and others. They were all too urgent about this. And I kind of didn't like it. 

Connor brought the beer and Lilly helped me with the plastic cups as they sat around, playing video games. 

"We can start!" Blake yelled and got up walking over to the round table we set the cups at. We stood there waiting for the others. My arms were folded across my chest and he stood there putting his the same way I did. "It's time to see them pretty underwear of yours, baby girl." Blake whispered in my ear, his arms slowly releasing as he suddenly rolled his fingers lightly over my butt. I looked up at him, his eyes intensely mine, as he seemed to smirk under the little light I actually could see him.  I pushed him away with my hand against his upper arm. There was that side of Blake.

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It was only about ten minutes since we started playing and I only took off my shoes and socks. Yes. Those counted too. Lilly had no shoes on and she wore no socks, but thankfully she had a spaghetti straps shirt under her Nirvana t-shirt because she just now took that shirt off. I looked around to see where did we come to and pretty much everyone seemed to suck at this. Connor was shirtless, alongside Adam who was pretty much lucky we counted shoes in, because, in other news, he'd be pantsless too. Ethan was in his boxers and Blake just took his shorts off. Honestly, they seemed a bit ashamed compared to how confident they were at the beginning. Theodore lost his shirt and he couldn't stop flexing his biceps, constantly begging for our attention. I would look at him sometimes, rolling my eyes playfully. Adrian was still really confident and assured even though he also just had to take his shirt off.  I mean I honestly don't see why any of them wouldn't be. Hate to admit it, but they pretty much looked really good. All of them seriously. 

Dexter was still fully clothed, and now I hate him. Not because I wanted to see him out of his clothes. No! I just thought I'd teach them all a lesson about how it feels being objectified. And with Lilly beside, that was super easy. 

"Huh! Take it off!" Lilly evily giggled, pointing at Adam. He chuckled standing up, untying his basketball shorts, similar to those that all of them had. He grinned widely, playing with the laces. His hips swayed around, as he bit down on his lip, pretending to give us all a little show. 

"Just for you babe!" He winked at Lilly who just smirked at him. I laughed at them looking anywhere else, except Adam. 

"This should be illegal. He's my brother."  Blake stated, looking way at the same direction I did. His face was a bit disgusted, as he found my eyes, realizing I was being careful about unintentionally seeing him too. The boys suddenly started cooing and clapping their hands as I assumed Adam took his shorts off. 

"You can look now!" Connor approved and I chuckled to myself, turning my head back around. I eyed the messy table, in search for the ball. Setting my eyes on it, I took the ping-pong ball to make my throw. 

"And my fingers go crossing to make her miss!" Adrian seemed to think out loud, as he shut his eyes closed and actually crossed his fingers. His head rose up and he smiled to himself. Cameron was quick to nudge him on the side, as Adrian chuckled, his head still raised.

"Fuck off, Collins!" I spat sarcastically at him and he chuckled with his eyes still tightly closed. I blew into my closed fist, tightly gripping the ball, in hope, it will bring me some luck. Stupid. I know. But I needed God to help me with this right now. A lot. I kind of also had faith in this, but still. 

I threw the ball lazily and it seemed as everything immediately went slow-motion like. The ball first flew perfectly towards the cup, but then slightly directioned to the edge of the other one. It seemed so close, yet it was apparently too far since the ball hit the edge of the cup and flew straight behind it, falling to the floor. 

I deeply sighed in disappointment and anger, cause I knew what was to come. 

"My prayers reached God!" Adrian breathed out and Connor chuckled at him, while everyone else snickered. I shut my eyes tightly, as I could feel Lilly shifting beside me, as her arm brushed against mine. 

"This is so wrong." Connor said, chuckling, as he shook his head. His hands ran across his face as he exhaled, turning around and then back towards the table. 

"I'm cool." Blake carelessly spoke, his hands brushing it off as Dexter nodded. They all looked at me smirking as if reminding me of what I was supposed to do. 

"Me too bro." I sighed once again but quickly pulled my shirt off. I pulled it down my arms and then over my hands, but putting it over my left shoulder.  They first stared at me, but looking away most of them cleared their throats and smirked to themselves. I felt a bit stupid, but also proud. I guess that it must be at the way I made them a bit awkward and rethink their choice. Don't even ask me why. 

I looked down sighing, as I caught a glimpse of my light pink bra. It's as if I knew what to wear tonight. 

"That's my girl right there!" Lilly spoke proudly, throwing her arm around my shoulder, squeezing me as she cooed. As I reached for the cup and took a sip, I tilted my head quickly upwards and swallowed down a bit sour liquid. Adrian leaned from next to me, his hands smoothly placed in front of him on the table. 

"I'd love for you to miss at least once again. Cause this what I'm seeing now, makes me want a bit more." He whispered in my ear and I shivered slightly. He stood up straight but stepped a bit closer to me. Adrian mouthed Blake something and they smirked at each other. I brushed it off looking away. 

Only five more minutes after, we were done. We had no more beer and we were pretty much out of things to take off. Adrian eventually ended up in his underwear and Connor came to the same situation. Theodore was only about to take his shorts off but he had no reason to, so he didn't want to seem like a loser. Blake and Ethan gave up since they didn't want to break down to Lilly challenging them to see if they'd end up naked. Dexter was shirtless, after all, and he was quite proud of himself. Adam was eager to take off his boxers but he decided not to even after Lilly begged him, just because the boys pleaded him to keep them on. I was thankfully still in my shorts while Lilly almost ended up taking her jeans off soon after she took off her shirt. She was confident about it, just as the boys were, and it shouldn't be any more wrong. 

"I guess we're done now." I rather stated and they all sighed putting their clothes back on. I did my best to put mine as quick as I could back on myself. No more need to feel this exposed. 

"We should definitely do this again!" Adam said seeming excited. Connor came behind him and patted his back, his head shaking sideways. Connor's hand settled onto Adam's shoulder, as he glanced over it, observing expectantly my brother's reaction. 

"At least not at my house man." He added jokingly. They both chuckled, as Adam stepped forward and turned around. They suddenly bro-hugged for no particular reason. I giggled and took the cups, making my way quickly upstairs. 

I was soon in the kitchen and started putting away the cups, trying to remove any sign of beer left behind. I felt a kiss on my cheek and smelled a familiar sweet scent. 

"You need any help?" Lilly smiled at me reaching for a dishtowel. I rolled my eyes playfully and added a wide grin. My hand went to remove a strand of her hair behind her ear and I amusingly blew some air straight into her puzzled face. 

"No! I'll be fine and you should probably get going." I grabbed the dishtowel from her hand and rubbed her upper arm.  

"You wanna stay alone with all the hot boys?!" She asked quite amused and I chuckled, setting the same face as she did just earlier. She shook her head at me.

"Them? Hot?" She nodded at me, smiling widely," Okay that's true. But no I don't want to!" She raised her eyebrows. smiling devilishly at me. I snickered running a hand through my hair, as she now playfully slapped my shoulder. 

"Don't worry." I smiled and hugged her. We walked side by side, also hugging sideways, nearing the front door. I sent her out and she left soon. I walked back to the kitchen immediately, already grabbing some of the remained dishes from today. 

"So you do think I'm hot?" a voice behind me spoke. I confidently turned around only to meet Adrian's eyes. He stood right in front of me, looking seductively into my eyes. A gorgeous grin played across his perfectly sculpted face. 

"I didn't say that!" I immediately hissed at him and his adorable grin transformed into his smile, filled with mischief. His strong arm slowly and smoothly engulfed me around my waist, pulling me closer. His eyes danced in between my eyes and my lips. His tongue slowly running across his upper lip, having me slowly lose my sense. I never planned on letting him in or having him closer to me, but I would, honestly, let myself enjoy observe him and do my best to not get caught. 

"Babe..I didn't actually need your answer." He pointedly added and slowly leaned in. Our faces were only two centimeters away but his head tilted to the side, as my breathing dangerously sped up. His lips pressed softly, but needy, against my fired cheek.  I gulped hard, as he removed his lips slowly from my cheek. 

"I'll see you tomorrow." He whispered into my ear and very gently unattached his arm from around my waist. Stepping two steps away, he winked at me and turned around walking towards the entrance of the kitchen. 

My mom was soon home, but thankfully we cleaned every little mess. I was really tired, so like always I just went straight to bed.

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A/N: Hey lovelies hope you guys love this chapter ;) I'll try uploading more chapters frequently. <3 <3