Help a girl out.

Chapter Four.

Jesse's POV

I feel a pang of hurt for a moment thinking about Liam and Lily hooking up. I don’t know why, it’s not like I have some kind of hold on him, in any way. Also, Lily is a really great girl, and he would be lucky to be with a girl like Lily! She must confuse the look on my face with something else entirely, because she hurriedly continues.. “No, don’t worry! He’s actually a really great guy, super sweet and considerate, with a touch of farmboy roughness around the edges.” I try to keep a smile on my face as she continues to talk about him, not even really listening anymore when the doorbell rings, and before I can get to the door it opens, and Liam walks in. If I thought he looked good this morning when he was helping with my stuff, he looks even better now, his hair is styled, and instead of the sweats he had on earlier, he’s now wearing jeans that are hanging low on his hips, and a polo shirt that fits his broad chest and arms perfectly. “Sorry to just barge in, but I really need to take a leak, and your brother is hogging our bathroom.” He states while walking straight to my bathroom, his scent lingers around me as he passes by me, and I can’t help myself but I relish in it. “Hi Lily.” He calls over his shoulder. Right away I feel ashamed of myself, I can’t believe I’m standing here checking out the guy my new friend is hooking up with, even if that guy is Liam. “So you know Liam?” Lily pulls me out of my own thoughts. “Um yeah, we went to high school together, he was a year ahead of me.” I answer truthfully but without any details. I can see Lily is thinking for a moment. “So you also know his roommate Marc then?” She asks in an almost timid way. “I should really hope so.. He is my brother after all..” I answer, kind of confused as to why she would ask about Marc. Lily looks at me shocked, “He..he’s your brother???” but before I can answer, my front door busts open again. This time Marc walks in looking determined but stops in his tracks as he sees Lily. I look between them more confused now than before. Lily closes her open mouth and says “Hi” with a smile directed at Marc, and what the hell? is he blushing?? What the hell is going on? Then Liam comes out of my bedroom talking on the way out. “Thanks Peanut, felt like I was about to burst!” he laughs, and also stops in his tracks, taking in the surroundings now with a smirk on his face as he looks between Marc and Lily crossing his big arms over his chest. My confusion is at an all-time high when the penny finally drops and I burst out in laughter and, dare I say, feeling a little relieved, “Marc, is the guy you were telling me about?” I look at Lily, “The one you’ve hooked up with!” Now she’s the one with the blush and she nods, and now there’s a smirk on Marc’s lips “You talked about me?” he says hopeful, then adds “Wait.. how do you know my sister?” His smirk forms into a confused expression. Again I burst out laughing. “Okay, firstly Ew! Secondly, I met Lily when I went to the diner for lunch. I also got a job there as a waitress..” I explain. Lily seems to find her composure, and starts to laugh too. “I can’t believe that Marc is your f’en brother!” She laughs this out, then adds more to herself than any of us. “What a small f’en world!” while shaking her head from side to side. Back to smirking Marc says “So I must really have been doing good work, if you’re telling people about me.” Something shifts in the atmosphere in the room, and the stares between Lily and Marc turns almost heated. “OKAY! once again Ew!!” I squirm, and Liam chuckles from behind me. “Come on Casanova, we have a party to go to, if you remember.” Liam says walking by Marc heading for the door, and again I'm hit by his scent. “See ya Peanut.” He calls out to me just before leaving the apartment. “Um… So we’re going to a party, you guys wanna come?” Marc asks this without even looking at me, his eyes stuck on Lily, who’s smiling back at him, biting her lip. I’m totally grossed out right now. Yes, I know my brother is not a monk, and from a girl's perspective, he is not at all bad looking, but he’s my brother. I do not want to know any of the details concerning that part of his life! Period! Even though the question was not meant for me, I answer, since nobody else seems to say anything, “Thanks, but we have to be up at work pretty early, so that’s a bad idea.” “Ye..yeah. Your sister is right. It’s a bad idea” Lily finally finds her voice though sounding disappointed. “Well, I better go then.” Marc sounds almost defeated, and then he leaves. 

“Well, that definitely took a turn.” I laugh out, looking at Lily, who slumps back on the couch and starts laughing too. I go and join her on the couch and for a minute we are both laughing hard, until Lily stops “Hey! Wait, why were you surprised that it was your brother I had hooked up with, when I already told you it was the guy living next door?” I stop laughing too, “I thought you meant Liam.” I answer, and lily starts to laugh again.. “That’s what the concerned look was about! You like him!?” I’m shocked for a moment. Do I like him? I shake my head to get the thought out.. “No, that’s not it, I don’t like him like that.. I mean the guy is good looking! But no… He’s like my second brother or something..” Okay, that’s kind of a lie, sure we grew up together, but he had always been Marc’s friend, and I've never looked at him as a brother, more like off-limits. “Sure, girl.. Whatever you say.” She says in a teasing way. “I still can’t believe that Marc is your brother… I have to say though your brother is a fine piece of a$$!” She gets a dreamy look on her face. Yuck! She starts laughing again at the look on my face. “Sorry, I’ll stop talking about your brothers a$$ now.. Though it is really a firm one at that!” “Oh my god! Please make it stop!” “Fine, fine. That was the last one… For now anyway..” She winks, and I roll my eyes at the same time, and then we burst out laughing again.