My Best Friend's Brother (38 page)

Heather got changed in the bathroom first. Changing into her large sky blue Cinderella style dress. Her hair was in a classic up do with bangs hanging loose at the side and she wore pretty silver Disney style slippers, which were sadly hidden beneath her huge gown.

She looked like the perfect princess.

Then it was my turn to change in the bathroom in my modest yet perfect dress.

"God woman. Hurry the hell up. Dean and I are falling asleep out here and Nate keeps asking through the door to come in!" Heather exclaimed.

"Hang the hell on!" I yelled back "I'm just putting my shoes on." I heard a low chuckle that sounded like Dean and Heather muttering something low I couldn't hear.

"Ready." I called, stepping out of the bathroom to reveal me wearing a pair of low heel silver sandals and an exact copy of the white dress Baby wore in the final dance of the Dirty Dancing movie. Unlike Baby I had my hair tied back, smart but cute. My hair was a lot longer than hers in the movie and would be getting in the way of what I had to do.

Both siblings were confused for a second but quickly realized what it was.

"Oh my god. I never expected you to be that princess!" Heather screamed. "It's perfect." She jumped up and down clapping her hands.

"Does this mean..." Dean wore a knowing look and smirked "...Our dearest brother is..." cue the knocking at the door.

"I've had enough." The familiar voice called through the door "I'm coming in if you are ready or not." The door opened to reveal my handsome boyfriend in a pair of black trousers and tight black short sleeve shirt. He didn't look happy. But then saw me and smiled. "I should have known after a week of..." I ran over and covered his mouth.

"It's a surprise. Shh." I whisper into his ear.

I feel him smirk again my hand and then nod his head. I move my hand. He moves me in front of him and looks me up and down, which didn't embarrass me anymore. Not after how close we had become.

"You look perfect Sweet Pea." He smiles down at me, leans down and kisses my nose.

"You have some kind of nose fetish I swear." I hear a voice from behind us.

We both turn around to see Matt standing in his tux in the doorway with a smirk.

He looked at me and got a look of realization. "I was wondering what he was in the stupid get up." He said smirking wider.

"But shouldn't he have the shirt unbuttoned a little? I mean like in the movie" Nate groaned and glared at his brother with a look which said 'Why did you tell her that?'

But I ignore it. "Crap. You’re right" I undid the top three buttons of his shirt and smiled.

"Now you are perfect too." I grin and rub my fingers over the small amount of exposed chest.

"If I get abducted by some randy old woman it's your fault." Nate said making the others and me, laugh.

"If that happened I think I would laugh. Plus you have two other brothers." I joke looking back at Matt who walks beside me and puts his arm around my shoulder.

"I'll take care of her bro. Have fun with your cougar."

Nate growls and pushes his brother back making him laugh. "Don't worry bro. I was only messing." Matt said stepping back. "I'm not into sloppy seconds"

"You what?" I tensed up when I heard my brother’s voice.

Matt looked back at my very angry looking brother. "Oh Ricky I didn't see you there. I was just joking with Nate..."

Ricky seemed not to hear him and pushed past and walked towards Nate. I noticed Heather sneak out the room to god knows where.

"Did you have sex with my little sister?" He growled, glaring at Nate.

Nate was worse than useless, he just gaped like a fish looking scared of my brother.

I rolled my eyes and stepped between them "Ricky I am old enough and we love each other"

Ricky changes his glare to me. "Let him answer!”

Nate takes hold of me and moves me behind him. "You will not yell at her." He said menacingly, no longer looking scared.

"I wouldn't hurt her. She is my sister" Ricky said as if Nate was stupid "You on the other hand..."

He drove at him, but out of nowhere Robbie appeared and he and Matt dragged Ricky back.

Heather stood in the doorway. I guess we know where she went.

"Ricky. I don't care what the hell this is about. You will calm down and talk about this tomorrow. Today is Hope's birthday party. You should not be an idiot and get into a fight and ruin it." Robbie yelled at him, obviously annoyed.

Ricky's face softened and looked at me. I was still tucked behind Nate but had my head poking out.

"I'm sorry princess." He held out his arms and walked over and hugged me.

"I promise I won't ruin your day. But I can't promise I won't beat his ass tomorrow." He said honestly.

Ten minutes later and everyone was calm and back on track.

Heather and the others had all reluctantly left Nate and me alone and were waiting downstairs for our big entrance.

Ricky wasn't happy about leaving us alone. But we promised we would only be a couple of minutes behind them so he agreed.

"I'm so excited." I said bouncing on the back of my feet.

Nate grinned and shook his head. "If this doesn't prove how much I love you, I don't know what does." He said talking about our entrance, which I have only just told him about.

"Does anyone else know about it?"  He asked.

"A couple of boys I know and Kira and Robbie has an idea because she is playing the music and he is keeping the people all in one room for now, but doesn't know for certain" I tell him.

"I really should have guessed after all the practice you made me do this week." He shook his head at himself. "I am so dumb sometimes."

"Maybe." I smirked. "But I still love you." I pecked his lips "Time to go."

We took a deep breath and exited the bedroom door, stopped and looked downstairs without anyone seeing us. There was a small stage at the side clear, but people stood in front of it. People didn't ask about the stage they just presumed we were having a band or something.

"Ready?" he asked.

I shook my head "Not really, but I want to do this."

He chuckled as we sneaked down the backset of stairs to the stage.

Kira and Robbie both noticed us and looked at our clothing and laughed.

"I saw both of you before but I honestly wasn't paying attention." He said with a raised eyebrow.

"You’re really doing this?" I looked at Kira and nodded my head "Just don't hurt yourself. I do not fancy heading to the hospital and neither does Auron." We laughed.

Auron was asleep in his room at the back of the house where it would be quieter, but Kira was carrying a small monitor around with her in case he woke.

"Don't worry we won't. We've been practicing all week." I tell her.

They looked to Nate who held up his hands in defense "I was tricked."

"He likes to keep me happy" I smiled up at him.

"Awe. So sweet" Kira cooed, then bounced on the back of her feet "Get ready because the music is going on in twenty seconds." I thought her face might break because she was smiling so much.

"I hope you know this is part of your birthday present, because I look like a complete fool in this and will probably mess up on stage." Nate told me as we waited for the music to start and the cue.

"I think you look hot." Kira who was still listening told him. My eyebrows raised in amusement and Robbie, who was still standing near by frowned. "What? I can look and compliment. Just not touch." She said innocently, eyeing my man up.

We both took a deep breath and prepare for the possible humiliation.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Masks Ready

Hope

Nate and I shared one last look before both taking the stage.

As if on cue the room fell silent and all eyes turned to us.

"Is it too late to change my mind?" I mumbled to Nate.

"Oh my god." The familiar voice of Heather echoed throughout the room before Nate had a chance to answer.

I looked in her direction to see her in the back stood with several people including Dean and her boyfriend Parker.

The siblings both gave us a cheesy grin and
a thumbs up.

I was thankful that unlike the movie I didn't have to stand alone as the track 'I've Had The Time Of My Life' began to play in the background.

I barely noticed everyone's eyes widen as Nate ran his hand down my arm and pecked my nose before grabbing my hand and spinning me.

The crowd started to cheer, as we moved perfectly, not one wrong step.

Despite what Nate had been saying before I could tell that he was really enjoying it.

Before long we were both so involved in the dance that we no longer heard nor felt the dozens of people's eyes on us.

People whistled and hooted as Nate and I did the slight grinding move.

Moments later he kissed my hand and yes like the movie jumped off the stage to a small clearing. Not embarrassed in the slightest, he danced down the center looking at people as he moved. I could tell by the expressions on my girlfriends’ faces that a lot of them were totally crushing on my man. But I didn't mind, I knew he would never do that.

The whistles and cheers continued and before long he turned now with two very hunky looking men I had told him about earlier.

They were both smirking and copying the dance Nate was doing. I didn't need to learn it because they loved the movie as much as me and not surprisingly, were an openly gay couple I went to my old school with. Hence why they didn't mind doing this for me. Even a few girls who didn't know about it before joined in the returning dance.

I think that was just because they were hoping to get with my two gay friends Rick and Tom. But not surprisingly Heather had decided to be one of the dancers, but only because she was as obsessed with the movie as me.

Nate stopped half way, but the others continued until reaching the stage. I mentally thanked my parents for buying Kira such a large house.

Rick and Tom looked up at me holding out their arms, lifted me down from the stage and softly placed me on the ground.

I ran to an awaiting Nate and he lifted me above his head flawlessly. Thank god I made him practice lifts in the lake that day, it was a big help when it came to the real thing.

Up in the air, my arms held out, the whole room echoed in thunderous applause.

Slowly he brought me back down to earth, wrapped his arms around my waist holding me close and slightly off the ground, he spun us both around and placed a dozen kisses on my face.

People slowly got up and began joining us, dancing. Even Dean found himself a pretty Asian looking girl I had never seen before.

"God I love you Hope." He whispered in my ear. "You are so perfect. Even if you do make me do girly things." He said smirking.

"Er, you know you enjoyed it. You were grinning the whole time." I tell him.