Just The Way You Are (Jaime Preciado)

Chapter 4

Today was going to be great. Vic was moving into Tony and I's house. Mike now had a girlfriend and Vic said he didn't want to be around for all their "love bird moments." Why Tony had to offer him our house, I didn't know.

I actually think I was going to enjoy having another person around. Not that I would tell Vic I enjoyed his company, he was cocky enough sometimes. I didn't need to add to all that.

"Amy! We're leaving!" Tony called up to me. Everyone was going over to Mike's to help Vic pack.

"Coming!" I yelled back.

"Stop yelling! You're giving me a headache," Tony yelled.

"You give me a headache 24/7," I shouted, walking down the stairs.

He smiled, waiting by the front door, "It's my job, little sister. Brother's are to be annoying."

I just smiled back and we got into his beat up car and started driving to Mike's. It was a really nice quiet drive but once we arrived there was a whole lot of yelling.

"No!" Vic.

"Fuck. No way!" Mike.

Where was Jaime? And why did I care? And why were they screaming?

Tony and I walked through the open door to find Vic and Mike playing a rather intense game of Black Ops 2 with Jaime sitting on the couch next to them, smiling and laughing. I smiled as Jaime said, cockily, "Vic you suck. I know three year olds who could play better then you."

"Shut up, Preciado, before I kill you for real," Vic shot back, gritting his teeth.

I laughed as Jaime put on a very innocent face. He turned around quickly when he heard me and just kind of stared at me. I smiled at him, but he didn't smile. I couldn't tell the emotions on his face. Too many, too fast. Their was silence as Jaime and I just stared at eachother.

"Amy," Mike questioned not bothering to even look my way. "You ready to have another annoying as hell brother in your house?"

I waited for a second until Jaime looked back at the TV screen to answer, "Yeah. I think I can handle a Fuentes. Vic at least. You, Mike, are the annoying brother. I couldn't deal with all that."

I laughed when Mike frowned and Vic laughed triumphantly and yelled, "Pretty lady likes me better!"

Jaime scrunched his nose at Vic, "She does NOT like you better."

Everyone stared at Jaime. Mike paused the game and asked, "Well, then who does she like better?" with a smirk plastered across his face.

All the color drained out of Jaime's face and he stayed silent.

Thankfully, Tony spoke up after a while and said, "Me. I mean, she is my sister. She has to like me better."

"Yeah! That is what I meant. Totally what I meant. Sibling love. Totally." Jaime stuttered.

Mike laughed at him and returned to the game with Vic.

Tony side-hugged me, "Yep. She's all mine, sadly." I hit him in the chest and walked over to the couch to sit across from Jaime.

"Anyways," Tony smiled at me. "Are you ready to go, Vic?"

"Nope. Gotta kick Mike's ass first," He answered.

"You mean kiss my ass," Mike smirked.

"Nope!" He shouted as he won the game. "I mean KICK!"

Mike let out a scream as Vic not only won, but jumped onto Mike's back. Tony tried to pry Vic off of him, but it wasn't really working. Jaime and I just started laughing at them.