Chapter 2

The rest of the day, I was too scared to leave Liam's room. I mean, what if Zack wants to kill me even more now? I went to sleep with Liam holding me tight, comforting me.

The next morning, Liam was gone. He wasn't next to me. I sit up in bed. Where is he? Is he okay? The door starts to open. Low and behold, guess who it is? It's Liam, walking in here in a bathrobe. He sees me and smiles. I blush, and look away.

"Are you embarrassed?" He laughs. He walks over to me, and sits on the bed. I try not to look at him, but he keeps moving my head to look at him. When I kept refusing, blushing every time we touch, he started looking for my tickle spots. He found them easily. He starts tickling me. I laughed so hard I cried. By the time he finally stopped, we were laying on the bed holding hands, with our eyes closed.

This moment feels so still, so fun, so loving, I don't want to let this moment end. The man with dark hair and a cat on his head came walking in. The only difference is that the cat is laying on his head now.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I'm interrupting something!"

I look at him, with resentment, for making this moment end. He just had walk in now. I look over at Liam, and he looks the exact same way.

"C'mon cat boy, at least knock before walking in! What if one of us were changing?"

"Yeah, well you should really listen to when someone knocks. I knocked at least fifteen times!" The man says.

"Oh yeah?" Liam challenges.

"Yeah, lover boy" the man fights back.

" ummm...I'm going to guess you're friends?" I ask.

"Oh yeah, Vivi! This is Xander!"

"Yo" Xander waves.

"Hello, nice to meet you!" I roll over so I'm on my stomach, and hold out my hand. He takes it and we shake hands.

" I'm the butler.." Xander points out.

"Yeah, the weirdo cat butler! By the way butler, your cat's on your head again!" Xander curses.

"Why the hell do you keep sitting on my head?" Xander tried to pick the cat off his head, as he walks out of the room. He of course, has to look in and give a thumbs up to Liam before closing the door behind him. I blush. Why'd he have to do that?

Liam cuddles me more that morning, and we go down to eat around noonish.

His brother was sitting at the table, and gives a smirk to us when we sit down.

"So, I heard some people were walked in on..." I blush, and look down. He made it sound weird.

"Shut up!" Liam says, unfazed. If Lilly we're here, I would have told them to not talk about this. You know, since there would be a child in the room, and it's sounds like he was implying we...Of which we didn't!

I'm not ready, and I don't think he is either. I want to wait till I'm married, before I...do that. I am already almost there with Liam, we are technically engaged. Since my father had an arranged marriage take place for me. But on the upside, Liam and I had met a couple of times before and had a good relationship.

"Liam, would you mind if I had a talk with her this afternoon? Alone." Liam was reaching for a roll, and his hand froze. It slowly starts unfreezing again.

"You can have a talk with her, but you can't do it alone" Liam replies. Zack looks at him understandingly.

"Well, ok then. Violet, I wanted to know about your past relationship with Liam, and I wanted to observe you for myself. I want to give my approval for marriage, but that will be if you answer my questions." Zack states.

"She doesn't need your approval. I'm going to marry her, even if you don't approve of her." Liam barks.

"I know you will, but I want to-nevermind" I see how disappointed Zack looks.

"I'll talk to you" I surprise everyone in the room, including myself. I honestly didn't think I was going to say that. But he just looked so sad.

"No" Liam looks at me like I'm crazy. He shakes his head in disapproval. "No way!"

"I'll be fine Liam. I don't think he'll hurt me, nor make a threat toward me." Liam stands up, and walks over to me. He puts his hands on my shoulders.

"I don't want you to do this." He whispers to me. He hugs me. "I don't want you to get hurt. And I don't want to think that my own brother would try to kill you. I don't trust him after yesterday. Please Vivi, don't do this." He starts to tear up. I hug him tighter. We pull out of our hug.

"I think I'd be fine going, but if you really don't want me to go alone, I won't" I decided. He smiles at me. Zack smiles at us.

"So that's you answer, she said `no'" Liam says.

" yes, she did." I see how down Zack looks, again. What if he really did just want to get to know me better? What if I just stopped them from being brothers again?

"Would you mind if we were to talk with Liam in the room?" I ask, Liam stiffens. It makes sense, he probably thought I dropped it.

"Not at all!" Zack brightens up.

"Then how about now?" Liam says to him in a voice as if they were going to fight. He pulls me onto his lap. I blush.

"Sure! Violet, when did you meet Liam?"

"I first met him when I was 7, then I was 15, and again just last month." I answer. He smiles.

"When did you first realize you were in love with Liam?" I blush, and hide my face.

-FLASHBACK- Violet POV(15 years old)-

"Liam!" I yell as I run to him, with my arms out.

" Hey, Vivi!" We hug each other. My father walks over to us. He clears his throat to get our attention. We look at him.

" You are to be married to each other once you turn 18." My heart skips a beat. Why am I so over joyed. He's going to be with me, and it makes me happy. Well he always made me happy, he always helped me when I was sad. We write letters to each other so that we can talk, and I think I like him. I blush at the thought. I look at Liam and he's staring at me with a blush on his cheeks.

"We're getting married Liam!" I yell to him flustered.

"Yeah!" He jumps in the air excitedly. I giggle. He's so cute sometimes. Sometimes I want to kiss him. I feel as though I want to be around him constantly. He's so kind to me and makes me laugh. I wonder even though I'm still young, is this what love feels like? If it is, I can't tell him! Not now, anyway. He needs to know eventually, but for now it will be my secret.

"You're so funny sometimes" he pouts at this.

"What do you mean, sometimes?"

"Nevermind" I kiss him on the cheek, and I blush. Well, there's one thing for sure, I definitely like him.

-FLASHBACK END- Violet back to 17-

"I-I found out when I f-first found o-out we were getting married" I mumbled. I feel Liam stiffen, then immediately relax and hold me tighter, he heard me.

"What did you say?" Zack asked.

" When w-we f-found out we were getting m-m-married" I said louder. I just realized I'm really flustered. I turn my head into Liam's chest and wait for it to cool off.

"Ah, so around 15?"

"Yes" Liam answers for me.

"Alright, What is it you like about Liam?" What is up with him, he's right here! Stop asking embarrassing questions! I don't want to answer this one in front of him! It's too embarrassing. I turn my head away from his chest.

"He is kind to everyone, he h-he is so funny,and how he makes me laugh all the time. He is so childish sometimes, but I love that about him. H-h-his...um..." I'm getting super flustered. "His p-p-perfect...lips that makes me want to kiss him." I turn my head back and start to try and calm-down. I get glimpse of Liam's face and he was blushing hard. I feel something hard on my head, and I realize it is Liam's head. Zack has more questions, but nothing as embarrassing as the one where I describe what I like about him. When he finished with the questions, we went up to our room. We got into our room and I walk over to the bed and face plant into it. I don't even know when he got over here, but I feel his hand on my back rubbing circles. I start to relax a bit. He pulls me onto his chest, and I hug his ribs.

"I love you Liam" I say to him.

"Even if I didn't have my 'perfect lips', would still?" He asks. My cheeks get pink.

"Oh, well that's a dealbreaker. I don't know if I could live with out them..." I joke.

"Well, no matter what, I love you Vivi" he says to me. I blush and snuggle my face into his chest more. He loves me.

"I love you too..." I say as we lay there fully content.