The Devils Of Harvard

Chapter Twelve

The sound of the door opening brought all my senses back in one motion, before I heard slow steps into the room.

"Don't wake them idiots" someone says and I quickly realize it's Lucian.

"I just want a picture" Theo protests in a hushed tone.

"If you wake them he'll kill you" August says.

"Agreed" Lucian again.

"I can run fast" Zavier says.

"It'll be Theo who has to run not you Ambrose" I mutter opening my eyes to glare at all of them as Theo looks frozen the same second his phone clicks.

"Well shit" Theo says before making a B-line for the door as fast as he could while I watch the boys stare after him.

"What a square" I muse looking back to Arilynn who was still passed out against my chest. Her messy hair laying neatly behind her head though that would be my doing I did that from time to time even with my own I'd move it so that it had no chance of falling onto my face.

Being the older brother to two sisters also helped because I'd actively helped them learn how to braid and style hair with my mom's help.

"This looks personal, I'm out" Lucian says followed by Zavier.

"I'm heading out to pick up your sister we're going to the mall" August says.

"Izzy will drag you in for a manicure be prepared" I say not really payong attention to him.

"I am" he says before closing the door silently and walking away while I resumed resting on my pillows.

I then felt the small shift then the stretch that immediately followed.

"Someone needed a nap" I comment with a laugh and she buries her face in my chest.

"Shut up, I was tired" she says peering up at me.

"It's cute honestly. By the way Lucian, Zavier, Theo, and August all saw you asleep here".

"So what, I don't see them here".

"I threatened the blonde" I muse and she laughs.

"I can picture that, did Theo run when you threatened him?" she asks in a goadingly innocent way.

"Maybe" I slyly smirk.

"Devil" she quips.

"You're cuddling against one" I retort and she just shrugs as she glanced at me.

"Comfy" Arilynn remarks and I let out a soft laugh.

How is she friends with me I'm an ass, then again she hasn't seen that side of me. The protective, blunt, take no prisoners side. I couldn't hide it from her forever, something would happen that would make it come out.

I just wanted that piece to be completely under my control because if I could tell her everything in a controlled place and not one that forces me too that would be nice. But I ended up in a lot of situations that meant that it was out of my control.

"You are like having a baby for a friend".

"Yes except friends don't cuddle".

"Technically girls use the excuse 'he's just my boy best friend' all the time, so I hope I'm not the back up Arilynn".

"Nope I'm single, also you're probably the first friend I made this year" she breathes before perking up, "am I bothering you by being here, next to you?".

I then laugh and look at her with a small smile, "not in the slightest Arilynn, you couldn't bother me if you tried" I assure lifting her once again tilted head.