My New Stepbrother

Cousins

Harlem's POV

I was just reading one of my books until I heard the doorbell. Killian was in the kitchen and he got the door thankfully.
I heard a bunch of hello's and stuff like that before they eventually made their way into the living room.
"I thought you said he was a teenager." One of them said to Killian acting as if I wasn't in the room
"Harlem is thirteen, he just is really small for some reason." Killian replied.
"I can hear you guys." I said.
"We don't care." One of them said.

"Okay Harlem, so this is Maddox." Killian said, pointing to the one on the far left standing at about 5'11.
"And that's Skylar and Harrison." He said pointing to the other two who were like giants standing at 6 '4.
"Guys this is Harlem obviously. He doesn't talk that much. He might be hanging out with us tonight. It's up to him." Killian explained to them.
"Actually I might just stay in my room for the night." I decided to lie to Killian.

The reason I had to lie to Killian was because Rocco had texted me a little bit earlier saying that he could pick me up and we could go hang out in a parking lot. I know it sounds weird but it isn't really.

I went up to my room to get ready. I grabbed a pair of sweats then headed to the shower. No one knows this but I kind of like Rocco and it's not just in a friend type of way.
I've known I have liked boys for awhile but I never really knew my type. To be honest I still really don't. I find Rocco really attractive. He is a lot taller than me; around 5 '9, he has a deep voice, and he is really kind and caring of me. I love all of this about Rocco but I still have seen other guys that look completely different and I also find them attractive, so I suppose I don't really have a type. An issue is definitely that I am

I got out of the shower, and then blow dried my hair really quickly. I checked my phone and Rocco said he was down the block.I went to my bedroom to stuff pillows underneath there so that Killian would think I am just passed out hopefully. I went downstairs, so that I could just leave through the backdoor and go around the house. I was wearing all black so I wasn't worried about the other boys seeing me.

I sneaked through the yard and then started walking down the street where at the end I saw Rocco's black truck.

"Since when does it take you an hour to get ready princess" Rocco said, making fun of me while I was struggling to get in.
"I had to make sure Killian and the others wouldn't find out." I explained to him.
"What others?" He asked me.
"He had his cousins over tonight." I told him.
"Oh okay." He replied. We drove to the park and he got beer out.
"Are you still going to be a baby about beer?" He asked me.
"I'm not being a baby about it. It just tastes nasty." I admitted once again for the thousandth time.
"Exactly. You're thirteen. Thats when I started. You get used to the taste eventually." He stated.
"Fine give it to me." I said and he handed me the beer.
We just fucked around and then he got weed out so we could get high. That's how we started hanging out in the first place. I was in a bad place and just needed an escape.

We kind of just relaxed until we both saw a car pull up. I didn't really think much of it. I just thought it was weird since no one ever comes to this spot.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing." I heard from the person coming out of the truck. I turned, looked at them and to my misfortune it was in fact Killian.

"Killian, what are you doing here?" I asked him.
"You really think now is a good time to question me?" He asked coldly.
"Next time you think of sneaking out, how about you actually make the pillows look like how your body would look." He explained.

"Rocco Vassilos" Someone said, confused and shocked coming out of the truck.
Oh no. He also brought the twins down here.
"Can you explain why the fuck a thirteen year old is hanging out with someone my age, not only drinking beer but also smoking weed. A thousand things could have gone wrong and no one would have known. Do you know how irresponsible this is." He shouted at me.
"Killian stop you're embarrassing me" I pleaded looking back at Rocco every few couple of words. I still liked him after all.
"Harlem he's almost a fucking adult who doesn't now ans never will have your best interest. So I'm sorry if this is embarrassing to you but I wouldn't have to do this shit if you actually had some sense to you. Now get in the car Harlem." He told me.

I looked over at the twins beating up Rocco. I felt so bad. I promised him he had nothing to worry about and now he probably has two black eyes and multiple other bruises throughout his body. Tears filled my eyes and I was sniffling by the time I got to the car

The twins got back in the car and it was obvious they were worn out. We drove back to the house in silence. I just wanted to go to bed.

We walked in to find Maddox sitting st the couch. I guess he stayed here in case I came back.

I went to to go upstairs until I heard Killian behind me, "You're hanging out down here with us. Go and take a shower and come back down."
"I don't want to stay down here" I refuted.
"Too bad. You should've thought about that before sneaking out. Your lucky I don't tell our parents." Killian said

I accepted my defeat and went to go take a shower then I came back downstairs and sat beside Maddox with my favorite star wars blanket.
"So what happened? You've obviously been crying." Maddox whispered.
"I don't want to talk about it." I replied looking down.
"I'm gonna find out eventually through the others anyways. I want to hear your side though." He explained.
"Do you know Rocco?" I asked giving in since he was right.
"You were hanging out with that delinquent?" He said rasing an eyebrow.
"He's not a delinquent." I replied.
"So you guys weren't smoking or drinking?" He asked. I just stayed silent and looked down.
"Yeah I can see why Killian is pissed. I'm going to go get blankets. We're watching a movie." He told me.

He went upstairs and came back with the rest of the blankets for the rest of everybody.
"What movie do y'all want to watch?" Killian asked.
"How about a horror movie?" Skyler proposed.
"Yeah that sounds fun." Maddox agreed so then they all decided on the movie Lights Out unfortunately