Ian's perspective
— First Meeting —
Ian frowns when he pulls his car into the driveway. Chris whistles.
"Whose car is that?" Lucas's eyebrows furrow.
"I don't know." It makes Ian uneasy. His parents definitely wouldn't get a car like that, especially not without telling their kids.
They walk to the house a little quicker than usual. It stays locked when Ren and Clint are at work so it can't be a burglar. Still, it's a strange and suspicious car.
Ian opens up the front door and steps inside. He stumbles across a shoe, throwing him off balance, and frowns while kicking it away.
Unsurprisingly, it's his sister's shoe. She never did learn to put them out of the way.
Ian frowns then as whose shoes they are catches up to him fully. Ember shouldn't even be home yet. He might be home a little later than usual but the bus shouldn't have already dropped her off.
It does explain the fancy car in the driveway though.
"Is Ember home early?" Lucas steps in too, beside the man. "Whose shoes are those?"
That draws Ian's attention to the new shoes sitting next to the shoe rack. Those aren't Paige's, she doesn't wear Vans.
"I don't know. Whoever it is, they must own that car too."
"Did Em get new friends?" Chris laughs while shutting the door behind him. "Maybe a boy?"
Lucas snorts. "Poor guy."
"Nah." Ian shakes his head, slipping off his shoes and going to the couch. "She would have told us about a new guy."
And she's desperately in love with Izzy, but he isn't going to say that part.
He plops down on the middle of the couch. Lucas and Chris follow him. The latter sits down first so Lucas crams in next to him, practically on top of the boy as he stretches his legs over him.
This isn't unusual for them. Chris accepts the blond boy sitting on his lap just fine. Ian doesn't even spare them a second glance at the behavior.
"Oh, you're home."
A voice draws Ian's attention to the top of the stairs. Ember is standing there, looking like she just changed out of her uniform.
"Yeah, hi." Ian rotates a little to look at her better. "Who's here?"
"My friend Liam."
"Oh." He's heard about him. Sorta. Paige adopted him in freshman year and the three have been a trio at school since. Ian's never met him though.
Ember then disappears without saying anything else. Ian expects her to come back and introduce the boy at some point so he doesn't worry. Instead, he picks up the remote and argues with Chris about what to watch.
"If you guys don't shut up, I'll decide for you and put on The Vampire Diaries." Ember comes walking in.
The boy next to her is still wearing his school uniform. He's got black slacks and a white button-up shirt with short sleeves. The shirt is a little loose on his frame, the collar slightly stretched to the side.
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After Dark
Teen Fiction《 This is a BoyxBoy story 》 William Caddel wants to live. Between crushing expectations and the strictness that comes with them that seems like such an impossible thing to do. He has so much of the world he wants to see, so much he wants to experie...
