Chapter three || Colton’s POV

'Did Noah get lost or some shit,' Damon laughs passing the Westview ball he received in between his hands.

It's become a tradition that if your team loses a game then you have to give one of your basketballs to the oppositions team with red lipstick kiss prints from each player of the losing team. It's only something that our two schools do. No one else is that competitive.

And since Damon is holding the ball obviously our team won. We had just coated it using six of Katie's clear nail polish to prevent the lipstick from coming off, which was the funniest shit because we know she's going to hate us for it. But I have to give it to her, she's gotten good at hiding them. It took a while to find them this time.

'Maybe he's just really fucking thirsty,' I respond, 'you know how Noah is with liquids...he drinks like ten bottles of water an hour, it has to turn him on or something.'

'Maybe he is turned on right now,' Damon adds jokingly, 'and he's jacking off or something...but he doesn't have any material since he left his phone up here.'

'Or maybe he's using your sister as material,' I raise my eyebrow, 'she's home right?'

But before I can say anything more I feel a sharp pain in the side of my head realizing he chucked the ball at me rather aggressively.

This isn't the first time I've made a sexual joke about his sister, I do it all the time because I know how much he hates it. And he always abuses me in some form of way to get me to shut up yet I never see it coming. You'd assume my reflexes would be better by now when it comes to this.

'Damn dude I was just fucking around,' I groan grabbing my head as I get up bringing my phone with me, 'I'll go check on him to see if he's passed out or something,'

Leaving the room I make my way to the kitchen gripping my phone to distract me from the throbbing in my head. Making my way though the quiet hall I reach the stairs taking each step slowly worried if Damon caused me major brain damage.

Fuck,' I mumble under my breath stretching my shoulders before walking into the kitchen.

'Would you ever fuck someone who hasn't done anything?' I hear Katie ask causing me to immediately hide behind the wall confused on what's going on.

Leaning forward I notice her looking up as I look at the person in front of her,seeing it's Noah he's tucking her hair behind her ear.

'Sometimes,' he responds, not sure what he's doing his face is back to me so I can only see Katie. 'it depends.'

'Holy shit, you'd fuck a Virgin?' I speak on demand. '101 how to get a girl emotionally attached in two quick steps with Noah.'

Watching both their heads shift to look at me Noah let's go of Katie immediately. 'I wasn't-,'

'Yea you sure as hell weren't,' I interrupt him snickering, 'but from what I saw you where about to,'

'Of all girls in the world you really thought that Damon's sister was a good idea,' I speak again honestly surprised since I'd expect it from Jacob since he's so buddy buddy with her, not Noah, I'd expect Noah to be the one telling people not to do so and straight up verbally abusing anyone who willingly fucked with Damon's sister.

Or that Noah to be too busy with some illegal drug to actually give a fuck about Katie, he must've felt really horny and didn't want to have to go through the introduction stage with a new girl. Went through the easy way with a girl who never gets much male attention. What baffles me is that he chose Katie and not some random girl from our school.

'Colton.' Noah looks at me and I can't tell if he's frustrated or pleading, 'I'm not in the mood for Damon's shit at 12 in the morning.'

Understanding that he's asking me not to tell Damon I look at Katie who's looking at the ground. I don't want to get her into trouble, it's not her fault that Noah is a dick.

'Katie. Noah...really?' I look at her but she only meets my eye for a good guy second, 'is this some sort of momentary thing or has this been happening?'

I'm greeted with silence as I prevent myself from laughing. The situation shouldn't be as funny as it is because Noah and her just simply don't make sense.

You have Noah the basketball player who lets out all his frustration though playing. Who can down a bag of weed and still act sober and most likely has an unworldly criminal record for someone his age. He's a star player who may I say, could have almost any girl in the school no questions asked.

Then you have Katie who's most likely never even drank alcohol and probably draws little animals to calm down her stress. Taking a singular piece of gum from Walmart without paying is more likely the most evil thing has ever done. Let alone dating, I don't think she's been with a guy since primary.

'Kate I'm going to save you the trouble,' I look at her honestly, 'I wouldn't waste you're time with Noah because yesterday I deadass saw him-,'

'Look dude why are you being a dick about this right now,' Noah interrupts me, 'usually if you saw me just talking to a girl you wouldn't do shit but you're getting slightly defensive -,'

'Because it's Damon's sister-,' I butt in slightly annoyed he spoke over me but he continues to do it again anyways.

'But is she your sister?' He asks shutting me up, 'last time I saw you guys do more communicating then just eye contact was over a week ago, so why do you even care.'

Not really knowing how to respond I cross my arms feeling my fingers tense up. I look at Katie but she's looking away uncomfortably making me wonder if I pushed her too hard.

'what's going on?' I hear another voice behind me causing me to flinch.

Cocking my head I see Damon there confused, no longer holding the ball. He must've wondered why I hadn't come back and decided to check out the situation on his own. I turn back to Noah and Katie noticing Noah had inched even further away so nothing looks odd, except the fact that Katie is bright red. She's obviously embarrassed.

'why are you literally glowing.' Damon creases his eyebrows making it obvious he's talking to Katie, 'you look like a fucking tomato,'

Biting the inside of my lip I cough as an attempt to hide my laugh which only catches Katie's attention making eye contact with her once again. Not looking away for a while I wonder what she's thinking before she speaks up.

'we were just talking. The three of us,' She speaks in a low voice still looking at me as I realize she wants me to lie for her.

It doesn't only benefit Noah to lie but her too, since she isn't allowed to date ever since she was caught making out with a boy on her bed in middle school. I thought it was pretty funny but I guess her parents took it to heart.

I had thought the whole situation was amusing, but it wasn't as amusing to her since she had to break up with him even though he was using her; according to Damon who had confronted him, which is where I believe Damon's overprotective nature for her started.

He keeps holding it over her head, constantly reminding her that she could've been pregnant at 14 for not standing up for herself. Since she didn't want to do anything at the time but she was shy to say no. I believe that's what happened, it's pretty in character of her.

Obviously she still sees people and I think the only people who don't know that is him and her parents. I've seen her flirting with guys, not that I pay attention or anything.

'About what? What where you talking about.' Damon asks and suddenly I feel his eyes on me but I don't lose eye contact with Katie. 'What where you talking about that was taking so damn long,'

'Nothing,' I finally speak again looking away from her and at him. 'she was just asking some dumb physics question and I was bullying her for it,'

Rolling his eyes Damon turns to go back up the stairs, 'you guys are such fucking nerds.'

Noah doesn't hesitate to follow Damon pretending not to have done anything but I don't move just staying down there with Katie.

'I've noticed a pattern in your relationships,' I comment before stretching my arms, as I lean off the wall beginning to walk up the stairs before pausing.

'you always go for the shittest ones. One day you're going to end up in a situation you can't get out of.'