Jasmine's POV

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T/W physical abuse. I'll put a *** where it starts and ends.

"Come on Jas! Let's go! Get some energy! Let's go!" Anthony half-laughed as he dragged me out of the guest bedroom. He shoved me into the kitchen, where the smell of pancakes enveloped me immediately.

"You made me breakfast ugh I love you!" I muttered. My eyes widened when I realized what I said. I winced as Anthony awkwardly cleared his throat, but he quickly regained his composure.

"Yeah I made you breakfast," he chuckled. He led me to the table and nudged me into a seat. I grabbed the fork in front of me and stabbed the sweet-smelling pancakes.

"You doing ok?" Anthony asked, his eyebrows furrowed with sympathy.

"Yeah, I'm fine! Stop asking me that!" I shouted through the food in my mouth.

"You are disgusting," he scoffed. I rolled my eyes at him, swallowed, and stuck my tongue out.

"So what are we doing today?" I questioned before taking another large bite.

"I was thinking we could just kinda wander around the city. I'll show you some of my favorite places. All that stuff," he said, poking at his food with his fork. I nodded, swallowed, and gave a tightlipped, but sincere, smile. (I DEFINITELY had food in my teeth.)

"JAZZY!" Someone screamed from the front door. I involuntarily jumped out of my seat and onto the floor, bringing my mug of coffee down with me. The cup shattered as I hit the ground, sending shards of ceramic all over the kitchen. I scrambled to my feet and rushed behind the counter, ready to run from whoever decided to burst into the apartment at that moment.

"I HATE YOU SO MUCH!" I yelled at Pippa. She exploded with giggles. Renée pushed her through the doorway so she could walk in. She covered her smile with her hand when she saw the chaos inside. I shook my head like a dog and droplets of coffee flew out. Anthony sprinted to me with a towel. I accepted it from him. Without thinking, I grabbed his hand with both of mine and met his gaze as a way of thanking him. He blushed and smiled. I grinned at him as he nodded and walked back to grab another towel and clean the floor.

He has a really nice ass. I never truly appreciated how nice his ass his. I would LOVE to-

"Earth to Jazzy!" Emmy called from Anthony's couch. I spun to face her and felt a blush creep up my neck.

"Yes?" I asked. I decided to ignore my voice crack.

"What do you wanna do today?"

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"Seriously?" Oak whined as he stepped out of the car. I nodded, grabbed Ant's hand and dragged him into the building. The others followed us.

"I've always hated these places," Oak grumbled, glancing around.

"You told me I could do whatever I want," I said, throwing my arm around his broad shoulders. "Because... you know... my cheating asshole boyfriend is coming home today."

"Fine but I won't be happy about it."

"Eight," I told the man at the counter before turning to Oak, "What's not to like about this place?"

"Germs. Greasy food. Germs. It's so loud. Do we really need this blacklight? Germs."

"Ignore all that and you're golden."

The seven of us got our shoes and marched to the lane on the far right.

"Ant you're up first!" I exclaimed, "Can I pick your ball out for you?" I didn't wait for an answer. I was feeling much too energetic at the moment. Instead, I jumped from my seat and ran to the back of the building. Ant followed me, a grin splitting his face despite his obvious reluctance to let me choose. I smiled grinned and grabbed a small five-pound ball.

"Here you go," I held the ball out for him, beaming like a six-year-old who got an A on their handwriting assignment.

"Jas this is for a child," Anthony sighed, the smile not leaving his face. He hung his head and faced the ball in his hands but looked at me through his eyelashes in an adorable way that made my heart flutter.

"How do you know this isn't just for an incredibly weak adult such as yourself," I teased.

"There's a picture of Cinderella on it," he countered.

"Are you telling me that because I like Disney I am not a proper adult?"

"I don't think you're anywhere near adulthood. But I also don't think it's just because you like Disney."

"I'm more of an adult than you are."

"Shut up and pick an actual ball for me to use."

"You're only changing the subject because you know I won," I mumbled, as I set the ball back down. Anthony either didn't hear me or chose to ignore me.

I grabbed a twelve-pound ball for him to use and, with only a little difficulty, handed it to him. During the process, our hands brushed.

"Wait!" Anthony exclaimed. He set the ball on the ground and stopped it with his foot. "Give me your hands!" I held my hand out to him.

"They're so cold!" Ant shouted. He wrapped his two giant hands around my relatively small ones in an attempt to warm them.

I rolled my eyes and smiled before pulling my hand away from him.

"Stop flirting and hurry up," Daveed called to us. Ant grabbed the ball and we ran up to bowl.

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"STRIKE!!" I cheered, I spun around and made an X with my forearms. My friends cheered and laughed as I did a stupid dance and ran into Anthony's outstretched arms. I turned to watch Pippa bowl while Ant rested his chin on my shoulder.

"You know you're in last place right?" He whispered. I felt his lips ghost near my ear and shivered.

"Shut up and let me have this moment," I whispered back. He threw his head back and laughed.

"Stop!" I whined. "Stop or I will... kick you're head!" I instantly regretted the stupid insult.

(If you get this reference I love you so much. If you don't then this may seem like a really weird conversation)

"My head?" Anthony questioned, turning me to face him.

Too late to go back now.

"Yeah," I said.

"Not my ass?" He asked, a smirk sneaking onto his face.

"...yeah!"

"Alright! Well then let's see it! Huh? Kick my head!" He announced loud enough to draw the attention of the rest of our group. He grinned at me and gestured wildly with his arms. He really wasn't going to let this go.

"Come on karate champ! I wanna see you kick above your waist. Alright, try that roundhouse." He rotated his hips as he taunted me, and I pursed my lips to keep a smile from slipping through.

"Show me that sweeping crane kick that your kung-fu master taught you," he continued, kicking his leg in the air and almost falling over in the process. I burst out laughing

"Ok, Anthony. Jasmine's not gonna kick you're head. Can we go back to-" Daveed tried to say.

"Why not! It's the most vulnerable part of the body?" He laughed while trying to get the words out.

I giggled and stumbled over to him. Anthony wrapped his arms around me in a warm embrace.

"It was a dumb threat," I admitted.

"Yeah, it was."

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After a long day of bowling and playing the various arcade games, we arrived and the restaurant that Anthony had decided to end the night with.

We walked into the place and Ant immediately spotted someone across the room. He smiled, and I turned to face the way he was looking. A woman a little younger than him with curly dark hair ran up and wrapped him in a huge hug. I did my best to hide the scowl that I could feel sneaking onto my face.

"Hey Anthony," she rested her head on his shoulder. I felt a pang of jealousy. No. Not jealousy. Who cares if some girl hangs off of him. I mean can you blame her. He is so-

"Guys this is my sister, Stephanie." My fake smile quickly turned genuine.

"Hi Stephanie. I'm Jasmine,"

"Jasmine! I've heard so much about you." Stephanie glanced up at her brother, who blushed. I smirked and raised my eyebrow at him.

We talked for a few minutes before another woman bounded up to us.

"Hey Anty," She cooed. She rolled her shoulders back to push out her breasts and twirled her hair. I furrowed my eyebrows and glanced at Daveed, who was staring at me with concern.

"Hey Mia," Ant replied. His smile said 'I'm happy to see you' but his eyes screamed 'help me'

"Mia, these are my friends, Daveed, Oak, Renée, Pippa, Emmy, and Jasmine," Ant said, pointing around the circle. It felt weird to hear him use my full name because he hadn't called me that since we first met. "And everyone, this is Mia, my sister's roommate."

Stephanie's POV

"Ayúdame, hermana. La flor se está poniendo incómoda y no soporto verla así," Anthony hissed to me.

I should explain.

Anthony and I are definitely one of the closest pairs of siblings in the world. We're up there with the Winchesters and the Maximoff twins. Except, without the traumatizing childhood.

Anyways, Anthony confided in me about his little crush. (We all know it's more than a crush but let's just pretend for his sake.) To keep the rest of our family from discovering this, we call her "La flor", because according to Anthony, "She's prettier than any flower in the world" or some cheesy shit like that.

Back to the present

"Bien, pero me debes," I replied.

"Mia, why don't we see if we can go someplace else. The wait here is too long and I'm starving," I whined. Anthony smiled.

Mia glared at me and spun to face Anthony.

"Fine, but we need to talk soon." She placed her hand on his arm for a half second too long and walked away. I turned around and waved at the group before following.

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Jasmine's POV

"Ok call me if anything happens and you can come right back to our apartment when you're done." Anthony dropped me off at my old apartment.

"I'll be fine, Ant. See you later." I climbed the steps that brought back so many memories. I opened the door to my old apartment. Most of my stuff was still here, I only had some of my clothes at Ant's. I sat on the couch and waited for Noah to get home.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. I walked up and opened it.

"Hey, babe I've missed you." Noah reached for me but I sidestepped his hug.

"We need to talk," I said. I sat down on the couch and he plopped down on the chair across from me.

I sighed.

"Noah," I started, "I know about Emma."

"Emma?" he said, doing his best to pretend he was clueless. I handed him my phone. On it, I had the screenshot that Ant sent me. He didn't say anything."

"I'm moving to my friend's house." At this point, I was on the verge of tears. "We're over."

***He stared at me for the longest time. Suddenly I felt his fist hit my jaw and I fell to the floor. Noah towered over me.

He started kicking me in my stomach over and over. After about a minute of this, he leaned down.

"You aren't going anywhere," he whispered in my ear. I whimpered a positive answer. Noah got up and sat down on the couch.

"GET ME A BEER!!" he screamed. I whimpered again and got up slowly.*** After I did everything Noah needed, I went into our bedroom and called Ant.

"Hey Jas!" he said when he answered. "Are you coming over?"

"Um, actually, I'm gonna stay here. I've decided to give Noah another chance." I heard the disappointment in his voice as he said,

"Oh, ok. See you tomorrow then."

"Yah. Bye." I sadly hung up on him. I snuck a look out of my bedroom and saw Noah asleep on the couch, his beer bottle already empty and sitting the table beside him. I ran and plopped down on my bed.

I felt hot tears run down my face. After a few minutes of silent crying, I fell asleep.

BTW Noah and Mia are not based on real people.

LOOK AT THE SMOL CINNAMON ROLL DABBING

Have a great day!

~Kate

Word count-1020 (not including a/n)

Sept. 8, 2017