Untitled #1468

Untitled #1468 by sassy

flashback;
"Did you know you can't drink in America until you're 21?" Chloe asked me as she downed her third shot.
"How did you ever survive it?" I smirked rolling my eyes.
She downed another. "I know right? 3 more!!"
"You're unstoppable." I shook my head as I sipped my beer and Cami pouted at both of us.
"This is so unfair." My baby looked at our drinks and Chlo reached over and wrapped her arms around our best friend who was pregnant but not at all showing yet.
"You can't drink anyways cutie bear you're 17."
Cami rolled her eyes. "You got me a fake ID 3 years ago Chloe."
"And now I don't even need mine! Wooo! Happy birthday to me!"
"I give her 2 more drinks before she starts dancing on tables." I teased.
"I could start now." She grinned at me as I winked at the bartender. Oh boy.

"You know you have to be at mom and dad's tomorrow morning for your birthday brunch right?"
She nodded. "Like mom and dad have never been hung over? Please."
I shook my head again and pulled Cami closer to me, nuzzling her neck and whispering her what I couldn't wait to do to her, making her blush.
"You two are too damn cute. That child is going to be the cutest thing that ever walked the earth." Chloe admitted with a sigh.
"Yes." Cami grinned wide.
Chloe groaned. Again. Like a grumpy kid, but it was funny too. "Stop being so pretty! Why do I even hang out with you?" She grumbled as Cami sipped her gingerale.
"Because I'm awesome and you love me." She shrugged.
Chlo bit back a grin, looking a lot like when she was little and up to something. "What about this one instead?" She asked as she glanced at me with an amused look on her face.
"Isn't the answer the same? Because I'm awsome and you love me?" I grinnd at my sister, making Cami chuckle.
"Now, that'd be pushing it." She said with a serious face before breaking into a fit of giggles.
I turned to my girlfriend, "Can you believe she just turned 18? She still acts like a baby." I teased my sister, knowing she was listening.
"I heard you! Meanie." She stood up, sticking her tongue out af me and getting back a wink, "I'm going to get my drinks." She announced, looking like she was on a mission. A mission of having a massive hangover the next day.
"If you don't get back in five minutes I'm going to look for you." I smirked at her.
"I'm 18! I can take care of myself, you better focus on the little one." She teased back, shooting Cami an amused look before disappearing from our view.
When I turned my head again, Cami was pouting, "What's this adorable pout for?" I asked softly as I lifted her chin gently, not waiting for an answer but kissing her instead.
As our lips touched I felt her mouth curve into a smile, "The little one just wanted a kiss." She muttered before pulling her head back and staring into my eyes. She took my breath away for how gorgeous she was.
"Soon there will be a new little one who will take your place." I grinned at her as I set my hand on her tummy, which was still as flat as always but we knew that our baby was there. So much was going to change, but I was happy, scared, but happy.
She lit up and her smile got impossibly wide, "I wonder if it's a boy or a girl." She said as she furrowed her brows in a thoughtful expression.
"Are you thinking about names yet?" I asked, holding her close to me and thinking about that myself.
"We can't discuss names into a bar." She said seriously, making me laugh. She scrunched up her nose then kissed me again before her eyes moved to the bar counter. "I think Chloe needs us."
I followed her gaze and found my sister having serious balance problems as she was trying to climb on a stool while the bartender looked at her in a way that made me shiver. Also he looked like he could be her father. "Let's get her home." I sighed and stood up, grabbing Cami's hand and leading her to where my sister was. "Party time is over." I announced.
"But my drinks." Chloe said back as if that made sense, pouting.
Cami grinned at me, shaking her head, "Tomorrow she is going to regret all this."
"Time to go home sister." I smirked at her, helping her standing straight as we all headed out the bar and I stopped a cab.
Once inside, she was sandwiched between me and Cami, her head bobbing as if she was listening to imaginary music. "Wait." She said suddenly, widening her eyes at Cami and leaving me wonder what was about to happen, "Where are you going to sleep?"
Cami and I exganged an amused look, "In Ben's bedroom, with him." She said with a grin, looking as impatient as I felt.
"She's living with us until we find an apartment, remember?" I asked to my sister, amused to no end because if she didn't remember that? She had to be wasted.
"Of course I remember." She spat back and when the cab stopped I was afraid she'd throw up. Instead she followed us out in silence, leaning against everything she could find until we were safe at home.
"Goodnight Chlo." I smiled at her as I walked past her room with Cami, "If you need anything we're here." I added.
She muttered something under her breath which I couldn't get, so I ignored her and focused on my girlfriend which was already stripping down. Ugh. She was perfect, inside and out. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Cami asked, biting down on her lip.
"Because you're beautiful. And sexy." I whispered and walked over her, grabbing her by the hips and kissing her hard.
"BEN!" Chloe's voice broke into the silence, making me cringe and break the kiss regretfully. "Get in the bed, I'm going to see what she wants before she wakes up everyone."
"Hurry." Cami pouted.
I walked back into my sister's room, scanning it quickly but I couldn't see her. "Chloe?"
"Here." She said from her bathroom.
I turned, finally spotting her. On the floor. Hugging the toilet. "Oh good god Chlo." I sighed but walked over her anyway.
"I-I-" She tried to say as she looked up at me with big eyes, her face pale, "I don't want to throw up."
"Maybe it's better if you do." I said quietly, pulling her hair up and wrapping my fingers around it because I knew it was going to happen. She was a lightweight and had drunk like a sailor, it was probably for the best even if that meant I couldn't go back to Cami as soon as I was hoping.
"No I hate throwing up." Chloe pouted but the look on her face said that she needed it. The skin of her face was turning from white to green.
"It'll feel better." I coaxed, knowing it would happen no matter what.
She rolled her eyes stubbornly. "When's the last time you drank so much you threw up?" She slurred her words.
I laughed because honestly, I couldn't even remember. "It's happened!"
"What's happened?" Cami asked, standing in the doorway before pouting. "Oh baby did you throw up?"
Chloe shook her head.
"Not yet." I answered for her.
"You don't have to stay here, somebody should be getting laid on my birthday." She commented, Cami's face flushing a little.
"Don't be stupid." I rolled my eyes, thankful that she was home and not out getting in trouble.
My sister sighed. "What's stupid about wanting birthday sex?"
"You can't even walk right now, you'd puke all over any man willing to take you on anyways."
She dropped her jaw and then shoved me as I tried not to laugh. "You're awful. I'm great in bed. You two will never actually know if you are because you'll have no one to compare it to!"
"I can compare it to porn." Cami suggested which made me finally look away from my sister and stare at my girlfriend.
"What?!" I asked, interested in the matter.
Chloe shook her head. "No way, that's totally unrealistic." She replied. "Plus the girls are always faking it."
"I meant dick size!" Cami said back and my face turned from shock and disgust to a big grin in seconds.
My sister put her hands over her ears. "We've crossed the line of things I don't want to hear about." She said, so loud I was tempted to put my hand on her mouth but I Was too afraid she'd throw up on it.
"You brought that upon yourself sis." I smirked. It was at that moment that her stomach decided to give up. My hand tighten on her hair as she emptied the contents of hee stomach. Yuck. "Feel better?" I asked, running a hand down her back soothingly.
She shook her head. "No.....wait." She threw up again.
"That is better." She sighed, slumping against the tub.
I stood up and grabbed her toothbrush, adding some toothpaste and grabbing her a cup of water before coming back down. I kissed Cami, knowing that our night was ruined but it was okay, we had a future full of nights together waiting for us. "You can go to bed babe. I've got her."
Cami nodded, blowing Chloe a kiss on the way out before I came back to sit across from her on the floor, my back up against the counter.
Chloe took the much needed tooth brush. "You're a good brother." She smiled. "The best."
"You're still drunk." I teased.
"Maybe." She shrugged. "But even when I'm sober you're pretty great."
I looked at her in amusement since she rarely talked like that. Of course I knew she loved me, only she liked teasing me more than telling me how much of a great brother I was. Which I wasn't really sure I really was, I tried my best though. I felt as if she was one of my responsabilities. "You know that tomorrow, when you'll wake up with an awful headache you won't remember this conversation but I will and I'll used it against you?"
"Oh shut up." She rolled her eyes, but still smirked.
"Maybe I should make a vid so that I can have a proof too." I said as I faked a thoughtful face.
"Oh yes, you're that smart." She said back and took a deep breath, looking like she was about to faint or throw up again, I wasn't sure.
My expression turned into a serious one again as I kept my eyes on her, "Everything okay?"
She nodded and rubbed her hands over her face, "Yeah. Can you go get me my pjs? I want to go to bed." She asked slowly, as if she was making a huge effort to talk.
"Of course." I grinned as I stood up from the floor, "Because I'm a pretty great brother you know." I said before walking out the bathroom and grabbed her pjs, "Try not to fall on your a.ss please." I added as I slid my arm into the bathroom to give her her clothes while I stared at her bed, wondering if Cami was sleeping already.
She opened the door again, leaning against the door frame. "Oh god that was hard." She muttered under her breath, reaching for my arm for support as we stepped towards her bed.
I was impressed she was still on her feet honestly. "That's what you get for getting drunk." I grinned at her, helping her to lay down on the sheets.
"I had to celebrate-" She cut herself off as she swallowed, "Everything's spinning." She breathed out, looking annoyed and on the verge of tears, like the baby she still was sometimes.
"It's okay Chloe." I said reassicuringly, pushing her hair off her forehead, "You just need to sleep. Goodnight."
"No!" She almost screamed, making me cringe, and grabbed my arm, "Don't go yet I don't feel good."
I sighed but sat on the side of her bed, shaking my head, "You're going to owe me big time sister." I said though I didn't mean it. I never did things to get something in return, I did them because I wanted to, and even though helping my drunk sister wasn't my favorite it was on the list anyway.
She gave me the smallest smile as she slowly rolled over onto her side, "I hope she's a girl." She whispered.
"Are you delirious already?" I grinned at her, raising one eyebrow as I tried to get her mind off her head spinning.
"I want to dress her like a doll." She went on, ignoring me as she slid her hand under her pillow.
"Sure." I sighed as I looked at her, the thought of having a baby scaring me all over again. Sometimes it just happened...what if it was a girl? Girls were so hard to handle.
She nodded then her brows furrowed, "Where's my birthday present? You didn't get me one." She slurred with a pout.
"You already have everything, no presents needed." I smirked at her.
"I want a present." She said stubbornly.
"Being an aunt, that's my present for you." I joked, pretending there was really no gift for her when Cami had taken care of that instead. What would I do without my girlfriend. And my crazy sister too...my family was everything to me.
"You're so lucky..." Chloe sighed.
I gave her a strange look. "You've lost me." I admitted.
She laughed. "I mean sure it's not the traditional route and I know it's going to be hard to be a dad but you're going to have a family Ben. You have a girl who's crazy about you and you're just as nuts about her. I've never had that."
I smiled more genuinely. "You're young Chlo. I mean I am too, but you're right I'm lucky." I shot her a smirk and she rolled her eyes. "You'll find someone eventually."
"Yeah and you'll scare him away." She teased.
"And miss the chance to have someone else take care of you for once? No way he can have you. I'll be his biggest fan." I grinned wider since I had no desire to scare away anyone. I wasn't that kind of brother, I was protective of course but I knew where limits were.
"Go take care of Cami instead, I'm sick of your face." She stretched her body, looking a lot better than before.
I laughed and ruffled her hair before shutting off the light."Night crazy girl."

present;


I heard a knock on the door and went open it, not thinking twice but regretting it when I found my sister in front of me. I ran my hand through my hair, guessing that I would have opened anyway even if I had known it was her...I had manners. "Hi." I said tersely.
"Hey." She sighed and I kept silent, waiting for her to talk instead. She reached out and handed me a basket of food. "Look I know you probably still hate me and I know that I fucked up. I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done for me. I know I can be a selfish bitch." She sighed. "I made your favorites....and if you ever wanted to talk about anything, I swear I'll listen and not talk about me at all." She smirked as I tried to lighten the mood, failing. "I know Cami and Gabe will be home soon so I'll go."
I stared at her blankly, hoping she was aware that food and a small speech weren't still enough for me to stop being mad at her. If everything she did wrong never had consequences she'd never learn, and I wasn't ready to forgive her yet anyway. "What did you bring me?" I asked after a few seconds of silence, my eyes dropping on the basket as I set it on the kitchen table.
She bit down on her lip, looking nervous, "Find out yourself." She said with a forced smile, "I hope you'll like it. I better go now..."
I peeked inside the basket and couldn't help smiling a little. On the inside. There were madeleine, clafoutis and pain d'epices...and they smelled amazing. "Wow." I commented shortly, wondering why my sister couldn't be this amazing version on herself always. The kind that thought before speaking and that made amends for her mistakes. I looked back at her, "I just made coffee, do you want a cup before going?" I asked, making an effort myself.
"Sure, I mean, if you don't mind..." She trailed off awkwardly.
"No problem Chlo." I said quietly as I turned away from her, reaching for two cups while my brain was busy thinking. A lot. Part of me wanted to kick her out and just forget about it, but the other part wanted to get over it or at least try. Or start. "Listen...I'm sorry we fought."
"Me too, I didn't want to say what I said, I didn't meant it and-"
I snapped my head in her direction and my look was enough to cut her off. "I know you didn't, but you said it in some attempt to defend yourself or I don't know really, but you said it and it hurt me a lot. I don't think you have an excuse really, but I also think that I love you and I don't want us to push each over away for one reason or another, we've always been close as kids and I don't want that to change. We grew up, I did more quickly, but you're a grown up woman too and an amazing one when you want it." I paused and she furrowed her brows as if she was waiting for some explanation, "You're not when you call yourself a hot mess, you're not when you sleep with my best friend and you're not when you say mean things just because you don't think twice." I took in a breath, trying not to get mad all over again, instead I spoke quietly, "But I'll get over it and we'll be fine again, I want us to be. Just give me some time and don't get hurt in the meantime."
Chloe just nodded, looking at a loss of words. "Sometimes I am kind of a mess." She admitted. "The hot part is just to make myself feel better about it." She joked but that was just silly.
"Now that's something the real Chloe would say." I tugged her closer and hugged her, since I was sure she didn't get as many hugs as I did and I knew she needed some. "I still need some time though."
"I get it. But I don't want to be superficial siblings who only ever talk about the weather. I actually do respect your opinion."
"And I do yours. Why do you think my son is at swim camp?" I pointed out, wishing she could see how good she was when she acted like an adult.
She beamed at me brother as she reached out to refill her coffee cup. "Is he loving it?"
"I think he loves it more than home." I joked, though it wasn't so far from the truth. My little man was obsessed.
She licked her lips and ran her hand through her hair. "I'm not sorry about Tristan. I wish I could be but I'm not."
I grimmaced and ran my hand through my hair myself, the name of my best friend alone making me want to groan in frustration. I also missed him. "Do you think I told you to stay away from him for no reason?" I asked her, feeling tired all over again. Truth was, my sister was a masochist while I never wanted her to get hurt, not again. "I mean besides not wanting to think about it. At all."
"I mean I know that he could do better, and he's not even talking to me so it doesn't really-"
"Chloe. YOU could do better." I cut her off, wanting to slap her for not being able to see why I wanted them to stay apart, and she looked up at me with wide eyes. "Not because Tristan isn't a great guy but because you're looking for the real thing. He's not. He might never be. And as much as you pretend that you're fine with being casual and having one night stands I know you. And I know you'd rather live happily ever after with a guy who worships you." I tried to explain. I wasn't judging Tristan, he lived the live that suited him better, only I knew that it wasn't what was good for my sister.
"Not everyone get's what you have Ben." She said softly.
I stared at her blankly, tempted to get mad. Again. I didn't know why she always got me mad, eventually maybe it was because she couldn't see herself or her life how I did. She needed a pair of glasses. I knew that getting mad wouldn't work. "A son in my teens? Thank god." I said back with an eyebrow raised.
She shook her head as she sipped her coffee, swallowing before speaking. "I mean a family. The love of your life. Everything."
"Chloe, it's not so simple." I started with a sigh, wanting her to realize that it was all hard work. It was weird though, she seemed to hate me for having a family but she hated me for 'dumping' it too. "Cami and I never planned to have a kid, never planned to start a family so young but it happened and now we're happy and I wouldn't change it for anything in the worlds...but did you forget how was at the beginning? Did you forget what we went through when we had to tell mom and dad, when we had to give up on our dreams, when we had to move out and find a way to pay the bills? It got so hard at some point I even dumped Cami." I said the last part on purpose, trying to make a joke out of a sentence that had hurt me instead.
She rolled her eyes, but I could see she wasn't annoyed, "Ben, you didn't dump her."
"I'm glad you know that now." I grinned at her and went on, "But it was the hardest thing a teen could go through and we missed out a lot, we had to grow up so fast..."
"But now you have each other, you have Gabe." She protested, her voice low and sounding a little sad too, "I don't have that."
"First of all, you have Gabe and he loves you." I elbowed my sister playfully, since I hate seeing her upset. She tolled her eyes again, which in this case was a good sign. "You're so young Chlo, you have plenty of time to find love and have a family..."
"What if I don't?" She asked, slumping on a chair as she looked at me, "What if I can't?"
"You will." I said seriously because I believed in that, I was a great fan of love. "But if that's what you're looking for, you won't find it with the choices you're making."
She stared at me, "You mean Tristan." She pointed out slowly.
"Yeah." I sighed but left it at that, knowing I couldn't say more on the matter. I could only hope they'd stop that nonsense and no one would get hurt in the meantime. "I know you'll do whatever you want no matter what I say, just...be careful." I said in a final tone.
Chloe groaned and raked a hand through her hair after she set her cup down. "You have way more self control than I do." She winced.
I rose a brow at her. "What does that mean?" I questioned slowly, though I agreed of course. Even kids had a better self control than Chloe.
"Okay let's both agree that you've been in love with Cami since basically her birth."
I smirked and nodded. "Okay."
She smiled at me. "And we can also both agree that she's a slamming hottie."
"Definitely." I answered. I got the hottest girl on earth, I couldn't complain.
"So how you weren't hitting that all these years? Is beyond me. If I'm attracted to someone I want to show them!"
I folded my arms and stared at her, since her comparison was as obvious as stupid. "You stayed away from Tristan for years."
"No. He stayed away from me. I would have mounted his desk the first time I-"
I held up my hand. "God. Stop." I shook my head because she was starting to talk too much again. I didn't need to hear about her mounting anything or anyone. "Still. You don't go around jumping every man you think is attractive."
"Well not anymore." She shrugged. "But it's not just his looks that attract me Ben....he calls me out on my shit, he's not just after me because of my name or how I look in a lingerie ad. He talks to me. I just like him."
"There are men out there like that that would want you for more than one night."
"Also he's so fucking hot!!" She pouted, as if Tristan was the last hot man on earth.
"It would be actually funny seeing you go all pathetic over a guy if it wasn't my best friend." I admitted.
"I'm not going pathetic!!" She protested, looking on the verge of starting to stomp her feet. "It doesn't matter anyways. I'm pretty sure you've scared him off even if he did actually like me."
I raised one eyebrow, giving her a not so amused look. "I'm sorry to break the news to you Chloe, but I didn't scare him away."
She looked taken aback a little as she blinked at me, "You didn't talk to him?"
"More like he talked to me and told me about your two." I paused, trying to remember the words we had exchanged. What a painful night it had been. "But not even once I told him to stay away from you or stuff like that. You're the dramatic one, remember?"
She rolled her eyes but didn't argue, "So what did you say? I want to know Ben..." She trailed off, looking as if her curiosity was killing her.
"That I wasn't happy about it, that I was disappointed and that I don't approve. At all." I said seriously. It was obvious though, there was no other way to react. "So no Chloe, I didn't scare him off and I have no intention to. You two are both grown ups and I don't want to get caught between you two, I'm taking a step back."
She seemed to study my words as she furrowed her brows, "Okay, that seems a little too good to be true. What's the catch?"
"It is what it is." I shrugged, "I don't want to hear about him and I don't want to hear about you, I don't want to know literally anything. You'll deal with the consequences all by yourself and even if it still upsets me that I won't be able to look at my sister or at my best friend the same way I used to I know there's no other way for me to go through this."
"So you're basically saying you're taking a step back from my life?" She said slowly, as if she was trying to guess my thoughts and fraw the conclusions.
"For a while, yeah." I nodded, looking at her, "I'm happy that we finally got to talk Chloe but that doesn't mean that I'm completely over it already. I need time, time to focus on myself and nothing else."
All of a sudden, she pouted, "But what if I need your help?"
"You can call Cami." I answered and I allowed myself to smirk.
"That's probably a good idea." She chuckled soflty before taking a deep breath, "Okay big brother. I'll give you the time you need, which is totally and excuse to focus on your girlfriend but I forgive you because she's my best friend and I want you two happy."
I kept my smirk in place, genuinely glad that we weren't fighting anymore. It was a huge relief. "Oh thank you, you're so good."
"I know, I'm a saint." She sighed dramatically before standing up, "I better go now. I have a class."
I walked her to the door, pulling her into a side hug, "Good girl, pay attention and take notes." I said as I kissed her cheek.
She smiled, hugging me back before pulling away. "I love you Benjy."
"I love you too Chlo."