MY BEST FRIEND'S BROTHER SHOULDN'T KNOW HOW I TASTE

CHAPTER 1 Mia and Knox are twins, which sucks for Mia because Knox is a total player and a massive asshole. He treats girls like literal garbage, so obviously Sophia thinks he’s a jerk too since she’s Mia's bestie. They were all hanging in the kitchen around 8:00 AM, and the vibe was already trash. Mia was pouring coffee and Sophia was just scrolling on her phone, trying to wake up. Then the door bangs open. Knox walks in wearing just sweatpants, smirking like he didn't just ghost some poor girl. He looks way too proud of himself. "Hey," Knox says, leaning over the counter right in Sophia's face and stealing a piece of her toast. "Damn it, Knox, get your own food!" Mia shrieks, swiping at his hand. "Put a shirt on, you annoying jerk. Nobody wants to look at you." Knox just laughs, chewing the toast and staring right at Sophia. "What about you, Soph? You know I'm a view."Sophia rolls her eyes so hard it hurts. "Move, Knox. You're a straight-up blockhead." Right then, Knox’s phone starts buzzing on the counter. It's a text from some girl named Brittany. Mia looks over his shoulder and snorts. "Oh look, another girl crying because you probably blocked her after one night. You’re literally a w***e, Knox." Knox just shrugs, totally careless, and grabs his phone. "She's being dramatic. I told her I wasn't looking for anything serious. Not my fault she can't take a hint." Sophia just shakes her head, feeling disgusted. "You're disgusting, seriously. Why do you have to be such a jerk?" "Whatever, you guys don't know the whole story," Knox mutters, finally turning around to walk back to his room, still scrolling through his notifications like it's no big deal. As soon as his door slams shut, Mia groans and slaps her forehead against the counter. "I swear to God, I hate being his twin. It's so embarrassing." Suddenly, there's a loud knock on the front door of the apartment. Mia and Sophia exchange a look. Mia sighs, marching over to the door and swinging it open, ready to yell at whoever it is. But it's not Brittany. It's this girl named Jessica. Knox had just hooked up with her two days ago, and true to form, he was already completely done with her. Knox is a heartless heartbreaker who always dumps girls after one night, never looking back. Jessica was just the latest casualty, but she clearly hadn't gotten the memo yet. She was standing there looking super pretty, holding a box of donuts, totally clueless. "Hey, Mia!" Jessica smiles, looking past her into the apartment. "Is Knox awake? He told me to come over this morning." Mia literally stiffens, her jaw dropping. She turns around and yells down the hallway, "Knox! Get your ass out here right now!" Sophia just sits at the counter, watching the trainwreck happen. Knox walks out of his room, finally wearing a t-shirt, and his face goes totally blank when he sees Jessica standing at the door. He doesn't even look guilty—he just looks annoyed that she's bothering him. He's completely cold. "Uh, hey Jess," Knox says, his voice flat. "What are you doing here?" Jessica’s smile completely fades. She looks at the box of donuts, then at Knox, realizing pretty fast that he has already moved on. "You told me to come over, Knox. Don't tell me you forgot." "Look, Jess," Knox says, leaning against the wall with zero emotion. "It was just a one-night thing. I thought you knew how it works. You gotta go." Jessica’s face completely crumples, and she starts crying right there in the doorway, big tears smudging her makeup. She drops the box of donuts onto the floor, looking totally devastated." You literally told me I was different!" Knox just rolls his dark eyes, totally unaffected by the waterworks. "Yeah, well, people lie. Stop making a scene and leave." That is the absolute last straw for Sophia Seeing him be so casually cruel makes her blood boil. She slams her phone down on the counter and stands up, marching right over to the front door. "Are you f*****g serious right now, Knox?!" Sophia yells, stepping right between him and the crying girl. "You are a straight-up piece of trash! You can't just treat people like garbage because you're bored!" Mia nods aggressively behind her. "Seriously, Knox, you're disgusting!" Knox finally loses his bored smirk, his eyes narrowing as he glares down at Sophia. He steps closer, his voice dropping into a low, threatening tone. "Stay out of my business, Sophia. You don't know s**t about my life, so shut your mouth." Jessica is still sobbing in the hallway, watching the three of them start to scream at each other. Knox just looks at Sophia like she's a piece of dirt. He doesn't even bother arguing anymore. He just turns around, grabs his leather jacket off the couch, and shoves past both of them to get to the door. "You guys are crazy," Knox mutters, completely ignoring Jessica as he walks right past her into the hallway. "Have fun with the drama. I'm out." The elevator door clangs shut down the hall, and just like that, the jerk is gone. He literally just walked away from his own apartment, leaving his twin sister and Sophia to pick up the pieces of his messy life. Jessica is still standing there sobbing, looking totally humiliated. Sophia lets out a loud, angry breath, her hands shaking from how mad she is. She looks down at the dropped box of donuts on the floor, then looks at the crying girl. "Hey," Sophia says, her voice softening up a little bit because she actually feels bad for her. "Come inside. Don't waste your tears on that total asshole." Mia shuts the front door and locks it, groaning loud. "Seriously, Jess. My brother is the most heartless jerk on the planet. Let's go to the living room." They get Jessica settled on the couch with some tissues. After a few minutes, her sobbing slows down, but she looks up at Sophia with this weird, intense look in her eyes. Thanks," Jessica wipes her nose, her voice still shaky. "He told me I was different from other girls he's been with" Sophia hands Jessica another tissue, her stomach turning. She already knew Knox was bad, but seeing how he treated girls like garbage made her hate him even more. "Don't let him ruin your day, Jess. He's trash, and you're way too pretty to be crying over a guy who probably can't even remember his own zip code." Jessica nods weakly, finally stopping her tears, though she still looks super embarrassed. After another ten minutes of complaining about how much Knox sucks, Jessica finally grabs her purse, thanks them for not shutting the door in her face, and leaves the apartment. As soon as the door clicks shut, Mia turns to Sophia, her arms crossed. "We need to teach my blockhead brother a lesson. He thinks he’s untouchable, but I'm sick of his drama blowing up in our living room." Sophia looks over at the box of donuts still sitting by the door. "I'm down. What do you want to do?" Mia’s face lights up with a totally evil smirk. "There's that huge warehouse party this Friday night. Knox is definitely going, and you know he’s going to be looking for his next one-night target. We are going to completely humiliate him in front of everyone." Sophia leans against the counter, suddenly super interested. "Okay, I'm listening. What's the plan?" "We get one of our friends from another school—someone he’s never seen before—to pretend she’s totally into him," Mia explains, tapping her chin. "We’ll have her lead him on all night, make him think he’s the ultimate king, and then right when he thinks he’s getting her to leave with him, we pull the rug out. We’ll have her reject him on the house microphone, or dump a whole keg cup of punch down his sweatpants. Make him look like a total clown." Sophia laughs out loud, imagining Knox's arrogant face completely collapsing in front of the whole school. "Damn, Mia. That’s brutal. But he honestly deserves it after what he did to Jessica." "Exactly," Mia says, grabbing a donut from the floor box and taking a bite. "He needs to learn he can't just play girls like a game." They spend the next hour mapping out the details, totally hyped to finally put the player in his place. But they still need the perfect girl to act as the bait. They officially agree on the plan: they are going to find the ultimate girl to dump Knox so brutally that his huge ego never recovers. She has to be gorgeous, smart, and completely immune to his smooth-talking player bullshit. The goal is to have her lead him on, make him fall hard, and then dump his heartless asshole self right in front of everyone at the warehouse party.