*Bzz, bzz* *bzz, bzz*

"Nooooooo," I moan, wondering why the fuck my alarm is going off on a Sunday. I grab it, opening one eye to see that it's not my phone; it's Jace calling me.

"Hello?" I whine with the phone sitting on top of my ear as I lay my head on the side.

"Hey, did I wake you?"

"No, I was wide awake doing star jumps."

"Hm, did you drink a lot after I left?"

After he left? Fuck, last night... The party... Dancing with Jace... Alex... Wesley.

Holy shit. I shoot up into a sitting position, looking beside me to find no one. I fell asleep beside him, when could he have left? Did he leave when I fell asleep? That's... sketchy. That... does not make me feel good.

"Yasmin?" Jace says through my phone and I put it back to my ear.

"What? No, I didn't drink after you left."

"You okay?"

"Yes, why?" I hold the covers against my naked body, squeezing my eyes shut. Fuck.

"You sound weird."

"I'm fine. Where are you?" I'm temporarily distracted by the sound of wind coming through the phone.

"School. Kicking balls around."

"Why?"

"Helps me clear my head."

"Why did you call me?"

"Um, I need you to tell Val to call me. He's not answering his phone."

"Why did you have to wake me up for that? You could have just asked Alex."

"Don't feel like talking to him right now." There's a loud bang from a soccer ball being hit off the net.

"Petty."

"I'm not petty; he was an ass. You shoulda seen the shit he texted me." Another loud bang.

"You should be used to Alex being an ass by now – although if he didn't make you leave then I probably wouldn't have-"

"Wouldn't have what?"

Had sex with Wesley.

My door opens and Alex stands there with a face that says he just heard me calling him an ass. "Who are you talking to?" He notices me holding the covers to my chest, "Did you have a guy in here?"

"What? You were with another dude after-" I hang up on Jace before he can finish talking.

"Go away!" I yell at Alex and he clenches his jaw, knowing that I wasn't alone last night as if it's a big deal. Again with treating me like a kid.

"I'm telling Mom," he says and my jaw drops, then he closes the door. I quickly get out of bed and put on a hoodie and pyjama shorts but when I get into the hall he's still standing there with his arms crossed over his chest.

"You made me get up for nothing."

"She's been working all night; I'll tell her once she's slept."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because i'm sick of you, and i'm sick of all these guys who think they're allowed to touch you."

"Why don't you say this to Valentino too?"

"I've told you – 'cause you're a girl. It's different."

"It's not diff-"

"It is."

"Oh, get over it!" I walk into Val and Santi's room to give Val Jace's message, but first I start ranting about Alex.

Montana's in Val's bed on her phone and probably recording my rant on snapchat, meanwhile Val is still sleeping through it. He's wearing a shirt which he usually doesn't sleep in, probably to avoid physical contact with Montana.

Montana laughs as she finishes recording and types something on the screen. I groan, sitting on Santiago's bed and pulling at my hair frustratedly.

"I'm sick of him."

"He's just looking out for you," Santi says.

"Oh, god. Not you too."

"So you don't regret whatever happened last night?"

"No," I lie.

"Who was the guy?" Montana asks. "Jace?"

"Are you sure it wasn't you with Jace last night? Again?"

"What?" Val turns his head to face us and I didn't even know he was awake. "Again?"

"It was a dumb one night stand. Why are you snapping at me? I didn't do anything wrong."

"I-" I pause, thinking. Why am I? "I don't know."

"Gross," Val says, a disgusted look pointed at Montana.

"What? It's not like he's ugly. Or has a small-"

"Jace wants you to call him," I interrupt, feeling the life draining out of me from this conversation.

"I gots no clue where my mobile device is," Val says, checking under his covers.

"Why do you lose everything?" Montana says. "You'd lose your head if it wasn't attached to your body." There's movement under the covers and Montana suddenly gets pushed out of the bed and falls onto the floor.

"Oh no," Val jumps out of bed and starts running, Montana chasing after him around the house.

"So, what did you do last night?" I ask Santiago.

He shrugs.

"I saw you with a really cute girl."

"Cool."

"Was that her?"

"There's no her."

"But you like her."

"Am I not allowed to be friends with a female?"

"Not unless her name starts with Yas and ends in min."

"Found it," Val announces, coming back into the room, scrolling through his phone. He puts it to his ear and sits on his bed with Montana.

"Can you drive me to the store?" I ask Santiago while Val talks to Jace.

"I can't today."

"Por qué?"

"Get Alex to," he avoids my question.

"No."

"I drive you everywhere; give me a break today."

"Why though?" Val says into his phone and I start listening again. "Yeah, but why?.. Dunno... I don't stalk her?.. Ask her yourself... Not my problem, bye." He looks at me, sighing. "Jace has questions for you."

"You're coming grocery shopping with me," I say to Val and walk back to my room where I straight away check my messages, surprised to find none from Jace. Wes has also not texted me to explain where he disappeared to, but i'll give him one more hour before I go ape shit.

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"You better not knock shelves over again," Alex warns as I'm about to start running while pushing Val and Marco in the shopping cart.

"That was Yasmin's fault!" Val says, "She sucks at driving of all sorts."

"Shut up. You're lucky Marco's in there or i'd push this thing straight into a huge muscly guy and run away."

"I dare yah," he smirks with the devil in his eyes.

"Shut up, you," Marco scolds him. "You'd get your ass beat."

"Language, headass."

"Fuck off."

"You fuck off."

I roll my eyes and shove the cart, not realising it's heading straight into a group of three girls.

"Ah!" They run to the side and reach out to stop it. As soon as it's stopped, Val swiftly jumps out.

"Sorry, ladies," he plasters a charming smirk on his face and Marco screws up his face.

"I-It's okay," one of them says while tucking a strand of hair behind her ears and giggling nervously.

Oh sweet Jesus.

I walk the other way, taking my phone out when it starts to ring. It's Wesley. About damn time.

"Finally remembered I exist?"

"I just woke up."

"Where, exactly?"

"My bed. I left late last night; didn't exactly want Alex or anyone else seeing me leave in the morning."

"Right."

"Please do not overreact."

"I'm not... it's just-" -Just that we had a deep talk last night about being hurt by a guy who only wanted me for one thing, so waking up alone wasn't exactly pleasant. "Nothing, never mind."

"So, do you wanna come to my place later?"

"Maybe."

"I'll buy you food."

Why does everyone know that my weakness is food? "Okay. Can we not talk about last night?"

My phone is pulled from my ear and I hold onto it for dear life as Alex tries to read the screen and uncover the mystery guy I was with last night.

"Let go you fucking cannibal!" I quickly kick him between the legs which makes him let go, and I hang up on Wesley and shove my phone in my pocket.

Alex groans, leaning over with his hands on his knees. "I could punch you right now."

"Why are you so obsessed with my social life?"

"Why are you so obsessed with embarrassing yourself in front of guys who just want their balls emptied?"

I step backwards, feeling myself shrink and become an idiotic young girl. Am I embarrassing myself by giving into guys and sleeping with them so easily? Do they laugh at me afterwards, because I was stupid enough to fall for the tricks of the evil species known as the male?

For someone with nine brothers, I'm really starting to hate boys.

Alex waits for me to snap back at him, but instead I just walk away and go out the exit.

"Yasmin!" Someone shouts my name, running up behind me, but it's not Alex; it's Val. "What happened?"

"He's driving me crazy. Why is he so mad about last night? He's never cared this much before."

"I think he thinks you were with Jace." Val leans against Alex's car and looks at me, his shimmering eyes filled with unsaid thoughts.

"What? I wasn't with Jace."

"No, it's just... I saw Wes going into your room last night... with a condom."

I shift, looking behind me to check Alex isn't sneaking up again. "You can't tell anyone."

"So you actually-" he screws up his face, "Gross. Wes? Ew. Barf."

"Shut up. He's hot."

"Doin' it with friends is a bad idea."

"What was so bad after it happened with you and Montana?"

"It just felt really different, especially at first. She avoided me a lot."

"I'm not gonna avoid Wes, so it's fine."

"Yasminnnn!" Marco screams while running over to us, Alex walking behind. "Alex wouldn't let me get the candy I wanted!"

"Seriously? He's so mean."

"Total dickhead. Let's get Uber home."

I laugh, "Buena idea."

"Get in the damn car," Alex unlocks it and gets in the drivers seat.

"Shotgun," Val calls and Marco complains that he always gets shotgun.

While we're driving, Alex calls someone with his phone connected to the bluetooth in the car. I don't bother to look at the screen and see who, assuming it's just Amelia, but the voice that bursts into the car is definitely not hers.

"Hey, you piece of shit," Jace says.

"What's goin' on, pal?"

"Getting high with a bunch of people that are better than you."

"Are chicks there?"

"What are you, my girlfriend?"

"Just wondering how long it'd take you to be in another girls pants."

"There's a child in the car," I point out.

"Not slept with anyone in a week, man, so I don't know what you're talkin' 'bout."

"You're such a damn liar. Did you just pretend to go home last night?"

Jace laughs, "You're deluded."

"For god sake, Alex. I wasn't with Jace last night," I say, trying to ignore the sound of a girl giggling right next to the speaker on Jace's phone.

"Then who?"

"Why do you want to know so bad? So you can go smash their damn face in? Or just laugh at me with them?"

"I didn't mean it like that."

"What did he say?" Jace asks, surprising me that he's still listening.

"I swear I won't touch whoever it is as long as you tell me in case I'm accidentally nice to him."

"And you won't ever ask about who I'm with ever again?"

"If you wish."

"Fine, it was... Chrissy." He's the first person that comes to mind, and someone he'd believe I slept with.

Jace barks a laugh and Valentino spins around to look at me. Alex just stares ahead and clenches his jaw.

"So if all you wanted was to accuse me of fucking little Yasmin, then i'm gonna go."

"Shut up, Jace," I say and put my hands over Marco's ears, trying to salvage any innocence he has left.

"You shut up."

"Great comeback."

"Don't wanna say anything to your sensitive ass 'cause you'll just go and cry to Alex."

"You always assume I tell him everything but I don't."

"Go ahead and name one argument we had that he doesn't know about."

"Fine. When you pushed me and made me cut my leg."

"What?" Alex snaps and I wince from how harsh his voice is.

"Ooooooh," Val shrinks down in his seat, a big smile on his face.

"It ain't my fault you're weak."

"Do you have a death wish?" Alex asks.

"Oh shut up, man. You won't touch me."

"Want a bet? I'll fucking cut you-"

"Jesus joany!" Val yells then ends the call, earning him a glare from Alex. "What? I was saving you a lawsuit."

"Why do you just lie to my face constantly?" Alex asks, following me into the house after a tense journey.

"Get over it! I don't need to tell you about everything that happens between Jace and I 'cause I can handle myself! I'm not a little girl anymore; I don't need your damn protection."

"You've proved that you do with all the random guys you sleep with. How do I know you won't just jump back into Jace's bed? How do I know you haven't already?"

"Are you fucking serious-"

"Break it up! Break it up," Val stands in between us with his hands in the air. "We're all friends here-"

"I can't believe you just said that."

"What's all the shouting about?" Hearing Mom's voice, I spin around.

"Alex is being mean."

"Yasmin slept with someone last night that she barely knew. She does it all the time."

I look back at Alex, my eyes wide. "You're a fucking rat!"

"Yasmin! What have I told you about sex? You're only seventeen! You're coming upstairs right now young lady, we're going to have a talk."

"Ooohhhh," Val says.

"No. I'm going out."

"¿Dónde?" Alex asks, as if I'd actually answer him right now.

"No you're not; you're grounded."

"That's not fair! Val's younger and does it way more than me-"

"No I don't!" He raises his arms in surrender. "I swear, I'm a virgin."

"How can you say things like that? You know Valentino can't have sex, let alone touch."

Yeah, well drugs help him with that little problem.

"Exactly," he says proudly.

Out of my annoyance for this entire situation, Val is standing too close to me so I target him by kicking him between the legs.

He groans, an intense look of pain on his face which Alex mirrors. What is with guys feeling pain when they see another guy get hit in the balls? Are they all connected or some shit? No, so get a grip and stop doin' it.

Mom rips me away from my thoughts by grabbing my arm and pulling me upstairs. We go into my room and I fall onto my bed.

"What's going on with you? You're acting out."

"There's nothing going on."

"You're making me jump to conclusions. I hope this is just some phase."

"I'm being like I always have! Or like I have for the past two years. It's Alex who's annoying me."

"Alex wouldn't drive you to spend your time having sex with people you are not in a longtime relationship with. You better be taking the pill and not missing days."

"I haven't-"

"Are you sure? I think we should get you checked just in case-"

"Mamá! I'm not pregnant, and i'm not stupid. Don't you trust me?"

"I'm not so sure anymore. Alex has been bringing you home drunk from school on more than one occasion, and now I find out about this. Is all this because of your father?"

"No, it's not about Dad." A nought forms in my throat as I realise how different I'd be with him still here. It gets lonely, despite all my brothers. Sometimes I just need company and it's not like I can just ask a random guy to come over just to talk.

"Then what? What's making you act like this?"

"I have homework to do. Can you please leave."

Mom crosses her arms and thinks. From her angry expression I feel like she's about to yell at me, but instead she walks out, leaving my door open.

I take my phone out straight away, texting Wesley.

Me  come pick me up

Wesley Coming

Me not yet, but you will be

I'm definitely not having sex with him again, but if you have the chance to throw in an innuendo, you've gotta take it.

I sneak downstairs once he's here, checking my Mom's not there. Luckily there is no one in the living room, so I make it out the door, but straight away almost run into Amelia as she's coming in.

"You're boyfriends an ass."

"What happened?"

I look behind her at Wesley. She's seen him. "Don't tell him I left with Wesley, actually don't tell him I left at all."

"If he asks, I can't lie to him."

"Please, Amelia."

"Alright," she sighs. "Just please tell me you're not doing something crazy."

"I'm not. You know how much he overreacts."

"Yeah... was it Wes you were with last night?"

"Does he tell you every time i'm with a guy?"

"He tells me everything," she laughs and I feel a small twinge in my stomach. I envy what they have.

"I've gotta go. See you later," I start walking to Wesley's car. "And if him or my Mom finds out i'm gone, try to calm them down before I get home."

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made a quick trailer. i'll probably make a better one later and i did make a trailer for the first book but i'm gonna remake it with a different song once i have time

teaser: yasmin reveals who she was with, then gets herself into trouble

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