After class ended Em, Amy and I decided to watch them practice, well after we got ice cream we did.

Turns out Amy fit right in with our group, she was actually really sweet and outspoken the more you got to know her, and I have a feeling that we'd actually be pretty good friends.

"So what are all the guys numbers?" Amy asks

"Ok so the twins are 13 and 31, Jordan is 61 Wes is 19, Tyler is 28, my little brother Colton is 23, Beck is 12 and Caleb is 16"

"Oh so the number you're wearing?" Amy questions with a smirk making Em laugh

"Okay, yes I am technically wearing the number 16, but if isn't for him, 16 is also my lucky number, we were both born on December 16th only a year apart"

"Wait really?" She terns to Em for confirmation and she's answered with a vigorous nod

"We always laugh cause they hate eachother but they always had to share their birthdays"

"Yeah it sucked, one year I wanted a dinosaur birthday and he wanted football so Beck was the tie breaker cause he loved both. We ended up having a Dino-football party" I pout. If I was being honest though, it was a fun party. I'd never admit it to Caleb though.

"No I loved that one! The cake had dinosaurs playing football" Em laughs "and Caleb made you special cookies with just dinosaurs on them"

"Okay yeah that was actually kinda funny but I was still bitter" I huff. It was sweet of him to make me my own cookies. The only reason he wanted to do a football party was because he wanted to make me mad, once he realized I was upset he felt bad and in the end made me cookies.

"So Amy I have a question for you" Em grins at her

"Oh no" I mumble

When Em uses the suggestive tone currently laced through her voice, she was most likely going to ask you something along the lines of a possible crush or interest...she could usually spot these things instantly, it was almost freaky.

"So what do you think about Beck?" She smirks

"Knew it" I chime

"I mean he likes one of my favorite books, so I guess he's fine" she shrugs

"I love how nerdy you are!" Emma grins at our new friend

"Just ignore her" I laugh as any glances at me "she's always going on about this, I'm a fuckin nerd too,"

"I'm good with that" Amy smiles "Uh I just, I- thanks for hanging out with me"

"Amy stop thanking us, there's nothing to thank us for," Em nods "You're pretty fun to be around, if you weren't, we wouldn't be here right now"

"Girls! You ready?" Tyler yells up to us

"Ready for what?" Amy asks

"Pre- game tradition, god I missed this" I smile before standing up and running down to the guys

Since sixth grade before every first football game of the season we had a tradition. There was usually practice right after school for he game then they'd get an hour dinner break,of course they weren't allowed to eat any good food so what Em and I always did was try to make them break by ordering the most unhealthy food on the Kanes menu. According to Em, last year Caleb was the only one who didn't break, during the game all of the guys threw up besides him.

"Oh we are so going to make y'all break" I grin as us three join them

"So what's this pre-game tradition?" Amy questions as we start walking to Kanes

"So when we were in sixth grade, during our dinner break,the girls begged us to go to Kanes, so we went and we couldn't eat anything cause nothing there is healthy. These two decided to eat everything possible to taunt us and get us to break, eventually we did and all threw up after the game. Since then it's become an tradition/ competition to see if they can get us to break" Beck explains to her

"That sounds disgusting" she smiles "I'm so in"

"I knew I liked you for a reason" Wes laughs

"Last year it was easy, there was only one of us, now there's three, we are so going to break you guys" I grin deviously. The only reason Caleb didn't break last year was because I wasn't here, I finally knew his weakness. It took me years to figure it out, and sophomore year I finally figured it out but wasn't able to use it the next year.

"No you aren't" Caleb scoffs

"Yeah we are" I sing

"Then I say yes make this interesting, you wanna bet princess?"

"Have I ever backed down?" I mirror the smirk he was wearing as we stand inches apart in a challenging stare down

"I'll take that as a yes? " he smiles cockily down at me. I really hated that he was a giant. He has and always will tower over me "If you win, I'll buy you whatever food you want for a week"

"Wait really?" My face lights up and a smile over takes my lips

"I double pinky promise" he laughs at my excitement as he holds his pinky up

"Deal!" I grin

"I still have to think about what I want, but if we win, you have to do the thing I say once I think about it. Okay?" He asks holding both of his pinky's out to me

"You have a deal" I grin "You're going down Kazer"

I wrap my pinkys around his to seal our deal with a true pinky promise and we start our way back to our friends.

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"Two down five to go" Em grins before ordering another basket of onion rings, Jordans favorite.

So far Ace and Wes already broke, both eating fries. "Are you keeping time, A?" She asks Arrex

"Yes Em, you specifically appointed me time keeper don't worry" he patronizes her.

I just smirk at Caleb who was across from me wearing an identical smirk.

"Not gonna break princess, you might as well give up now" Caleb grins

"Now Kazer have you ever known me as one to give up easily" I raise a single brow at him

"Never" he sighs

"Exactly, now it's time for loaded fries" I grin at Tyler

"You are all evil" Tyler whines as the fries are placed in front of me

"OH FINE" He whiles and grabs a handful of the fries out of the basket

"Four to go" Amy laughs

"I have a secret weapon, and I'm saving it for last" I grin, making Calebs face drop. I was the only one who knew.

Last year Em told me every food she ordered, it was every food that the guys loved except Caleb , I was the only one who knew his real crack. He was a sweets guy. His absoloutely favorite thing was a double chocolate, caramel banana split.

"Now's the fried pickles"

We all laugh at Arrex and Becks face, we all loved the fried pickles and I knew there was no way they could resist.

Like expected the both broke, Jordans did too eating onion rings and pickles. But Caleb stayed strong, just smirking at me.

"Okay time for the suprise! we've been eating salty all night, but Kazer here is more of a sweets guy, Kane can I have the double chocolate caramel banana split?" I ask while smirking at Caleb

"How the hell did you rember that?!" Caleb yells "I told you that once! And it was like two years ago"

"I know, I knew it would come in handy one day"

"You suck"

"And you swallow"

Kane places the amazing dessert in front of me and I just smirk at Caleb victoriously.

"Belle we have five minutes left, Break him" Amy says quietly

"Oh I will, Coco can't resist this" I smirk as I slide the bowl of ice cream between the two of us

"I'm not losing to you princess" Caleb states simply

"Fine guess I have to enjoy this gloriousness alone" and with that I was devouring the ice cream in front of me. I could see why he loved it so much it was literal heaven.

"Wow this is amazing! I can see why you like it so much! Sure you don't want any Coco?" I taunt

"Princess I'm not breaking" he says with finality in his voice

"And Time!" Arrex yells "Dude you won!"

"Oh thanks god!" He says taking he soon form me and stuffing a spoonful of the ice cream into his mouth

"WAIT!" em yells excitedly "YOUR PHONE TIME IS OFF" she yells at Arrex as she turns her phone around. It showed it was one minute behind Arrex's

"What? No it's not, your phone is off!" He argues with her

We all scramble to reach our phones to see it displayed the same time as Em's, Arrex was a minute ahead. Meaning that he called time a minute early.

"We won! You started eating a minute early!" I jump up and yell at Caleb

"Good job A" Caleb grumbles as he takes one more bite of the ice cream

"Aww is someone bitter?" I playfully pout as I continue to antagonize Caleb

"Nah you did it" he grins at me "well played Kalanski"

"Nice job staying strong Kazer" I laugh as I give him a high five

"Okay guys, dinner breaks over we gotta go back" Ace says standing up

After the guys leave, Em, Amy and I just sit there, looking at all the food we just went through

"I can't believe I just won" I sigh looking down at the now empty ice cream tray

"How did you know it was his favorite?" Em and May both question

"He's loved it since we were little, all the rest of them like salty, fried pickles, Fries and onion rings but he was the only one who like sweets, Specifically that" I gesture to the empty tray that held the banana splue "I figured it out sophomore year"

"I honestly thought you lost" Em laughs

"Me too!" I sigh as I stand up "are you guys ready to go?"

"Yep, let's watch our boys kick ass" Em smiles as she links arms with both any and I after we all set money on the table for Kane

"Bye Kane!" We all call out

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"KAZER THROW THE DAMN BALL!" I scream as he was about to get sacked.

We were winning by a touchdown and they were on what verge of another.

I guess he heard me because he whips the ball downfield straight into Jordans arms, who then runs it in right for a touchdown.

"THANK YOU!" I yell

"Wow she really likes football" I hear Amy say to Em

"Oh yeah" Em laughs "It's kind Of her life, well besides school"

"Oh come on! It's a good game!" I yell causing Em and Amy to giggle at my excitement. Em had never been the football type of girl, or any sport for that matter besides baseball. I, on the other hand, lived for football and baseball but also loved hockey, volleyball, softball, and lacrosse.

"Okay Belle, I think they've won it, they're winning by two touchdowns and there's only two minutes left" Amy chuckles

"Not over yet" I mumble not taking my eyes off the field until the time ran all the way out.

Well they ended up winning. Em, Amy and I were currently sitting in the bed of Calebs truck, waiting for the guys to come out

"So girls was that a good game?" Ace asks as they approach us

"It was okay" I shrug with a smirk "except for SOMEONE who held on to the ball WAY too long"

"Yeah I know Princess, I heard this really annoying person screaming at me from the stands to throw the damn ball" He scoffs, rolling his eyes in the process

The statement made me internally smile, He really did hear me.

"Wow they sound smart, you should really listen to them" I retort back trying to hide the grin that was fighting to make its way onto my face

"Yeah but I'll never give them the satisfaction of me actually listening to them" he laugh

"Oh please" It' my turn to scoff. He is so goddamned stubborn

"Oh, I have to go, my parents wanted me home by ten" Amy says, stuffing he phone back into her pocket "I'll text later" she says to Em and I

"You want a ride home?" Beck asks her. I feel my heart speed up ask watch them. Already knowing it was because of my twin. I just grin at him as he watches her.

"No it's fine, I can walk, my house is only like ten minutes away"

"Come on let's go" Beck says walking back to his car "I'm not letting you walk home alone in the dark. I'll meet you guys at home" he turns to us

"Fine" she grins as she follows him

Em and I just smirk at eachother while the rest of the guys start at us with questioning looks. We, like usual, ignore them

"Okay girls you ready to go home, I'm tired" Arrex says after Jordan,Wes and Tyler say goodnight.

"Yeah let's go" Em says hopping out of the bed,

I stay put

"Hey Kazer?"

"What's up?"

"Can I ride home back here?"

"fuck no, get your ass in the front seat" he chuckles

"Fine"

I ask that every time and one day I will get him to say yes. One day.

"Ready for the best music ever?" I laugh, taking the AUX out of Caleb's hands

" Theory, The Score or country?" I ask everyone

"Theory"

"Yes!" I grin as I put bad girlfriend on

"Good choice" Caleb grins

"I know"

We sing out loud with the window down all the way home. It was fun, I haven't done this since either left. In Chicago you couldn't necessarily hang out the window yelling your favorite song while speeding down the highway.

Right after getting home I go straight upstairs to change, grabbing one of my sports bra, a t-shirts and a pair of oversized sweatpants that I stole from one of my brothers.

"Belle!" I hear Ace call me down just as I slip on the sweatpants.

"What?"

"Ryans on FaceTime!"

"SHIT I'M COMING!" I yell before throwing the sweatpants on

"Hey Ryan!" I hear Em yell as I walk into the family room

The four of them were gathered around Arrex's laptop with bright smiling faces

"Hey Em, where's thing one and two?" My older brother, Ryan asks her referring to Beck and I.

"I'm right here Ry! Beck isn't home right now" I smile as I hop between Caleb and Em.

"Hey baby sis! I'll just have to call Beck once we hang up" He smiles "I miss you guys"

"We miss you too Ry. How have things been there?" Caleb asks

"Eh same thing" he nods bsfore looking at something off camera

"Who's there?"

"Hey my favorite family!" A familiar face appears on the screen with a wide grin

"LANCE!" Em and I both jump up at the sight of him

"Hey my girls, how are y'all?"

"We're great! I didn't know you were with Ryan?" Em smiles.

"Yep just got trasferred to his unit last week"

"The bromance is back" Lance grins

Lance and Ryan have been best friends since kindergarten, they even enlisted together. The last time I talked to Ryan, he hadn't talked to Lance in weeks, and I could see the sadness in his face. Lance was literally his brother, they did everything together.

"We miss you guys" Lance says

"Dude you have no idea" Caleb adds "I could really use my older brother advice"

"Sorry Kazer" Ryans sighs

Him and Caleb had always had this big brother-little brother relation ship like Ryan had with the rest of us, whenever Caleb had a problem when we were younger, Ryan was the one to resolve it. Though Caleb had an older brother, he was way older than us, by the time we were old enough to have real problems he was already away at school.

"It fine, I'm managing"

"So when are y'all coming back?" Em asks

"We still have a few months but we might actually be back for Chirstamas this year"

"YAY!" Em and I both scream making all the guy doing, including he two on the screen cringe.

"We'll finally have the Marojazeski family all together again!" Em yells

The Marojazeski family was a combination of my family, the Kalanski's; Emma's, the Majoure's; Jordan's, the Maroneys; and Caleb's, the Kazers. Every Christams was a Marojazeski Christmas where everyone came together.

"Yeah last year it was just dad, Arrex, Colton Beck and I" Ace says "It was pretty sad"

"Yeah I know bud, but we'll all be there this year, I even talked to Zach, he Mal and the kids will be there this year too" Ryan tells him

"Oh and your favorite brothers gonna be there too" Lance chimes from beside my brother obviously talking about himself

"Lance we already know Ace is gonna be there" Em grins making all of us laugh at

"Don't worry Lance I still love ya" I say making him grin at me. To this day, I still believe that I'm Lances favorite Kalanski.

"I know I can always rely on you baby Ski" he chuckles

The video slightly glitched and we see both Lance and Ryans heads turn to look at something out of view of the camera

"Okay we gotta Go guys, but we love y'all!!"

"Love you guys!" All of us say

"Love you too! Bye y'all" Lance and Ryan say quickly before hanging up the call

For a few minutes we just sat there. I haven't talked to Ryan in four months, since April.

He was the most level headed sibling out of all of us. I was always closest with him, when shit happened with our mom he was there, he basically helped raise me, we would talk everyday, and just enjoy eachothers presence. But since he's in the military, I now barely get to talk to him once a month. I haven't actually seen him in over a year.

"Um I'm just-just going to go to b-bed" I stutter as I stand up from my spot, holding my tears in. I missed my big brother. I love all of my brothers, they are my life, but I get to see them, I get to talk to them whenever. I don't with Ryan.

"Wait Belle-" Caleb starts to follow me but I stop him

"I'm fine, I'm just tired, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow, okay?" I say sending him a reassuring smile that masked the immense sadness I was feeling. I hated crying, especially in front of people. I have become good at hiding my sadness and holding back my tears until in the confines of my room. That was the one place I'd let myself cry.

"Okay" he nods before sitting back down

Before anyone could say anything I run upstairs to my room and lock the door. As soon as I reach the comfort of my bed I feel the tears drip down my face and onto my pillow. My phone vibrates next to me, but it was just a text from Beck though asking what was up, and why was I so upset. I contemplated responding but chose to ignore it

I stayed like this for a while, until I eventually fell asleep with puffy eyes and tear streaked cheeks.