Chapter: My Room, My Rules (Apparently His Too)
[…soft part continues exactly as before… Jay and Keifer lying on the bed, laughing, kissing, being disgustingly cute…]
He kissed me again, slower this time, and I let myself melt into it. His hand was warm against my cheek, his breath fanning against my lips, and for once, everything felt so perfectly right—
Bang.
The door flew open.
"JAY, WHERE'S THE—"
Aries froze in the doorway.
I shot up like I'd been electrocuted, hair a mess, face flushed. Keifer sat up way too casually, like he wasn't literally caught mid–makeout on my bed.
"Uh," I squeaked.
Aries blinked once. Twice. Then pointed an accusing finger. "You. Out."
Keifer raised his brows, unbothered. "Relax, bro, we were just—"
"—Breathing each other's oxygen?" Aries snapped. "On her bed? In her room? With the door locked?"
I groaned. "Aries, please—"
But of course, he was already yelling down the hallway. "ANGELO! You need to see this!"
Keifer winced. "Uh oh."
Sure enough, Angelo appeared seconds later, leaning on the doorframe with that terrifying older–cousin glare. "Watson."
"Angelo." Keifer nodded politely, as if this was a business meeting and not… whatever this was.
"You do realize," Angelo said slowly, "that if Lola walks in here and sees this, you're a dead man?"
"Technically," Keifer said, smiling like a lunatic, "if Lola walks in, she'll see me being a good boyfriend who respects Jay's personal space—"
"ON HER BED?!" Aries exploded.
"Correction," Keifer said smoothly, "our bed."
"OUR—" I nearly screamed. I smacked him with the nearest pillow. "Shut up!"
Angelo pinched the bridge of his nose like he aged ten years in ten seconds. "Watson. Last warning. If you hurt her, if you make her cry, if you so much as breathe wrong—"
Keifer raised both hands. "I'd never. She's my everything."
My stomach flipped. My face burned.
Aries gagged. "Ugh, spare me. Gross."
Keifer just grinned, eyes flicking back to me like none of the chaos mattered. Like the whole house could burn down and he'd still only see me.
And maybe that was why, even with my cousin and my brother plotting his doom two feet away, I couldn't stop smiling.