Close Behind || Aaron Minyard

5

They get in the car and it's very different from the first time, Nicky is driving and Neil is getting shot gun. Which seems like some gay predator sexism thing to Naomi.

The boys in the back at least give her a window. Kevin gets the other and the twins settle into the middle.

Andrew ends up beside Naomi and she makes a conscious effort not to touch him, which she succeeds at. At one point he looks over at her with a large smile, and Naomi can't really interpret it but she doesn't care to.

They pull into the driveway of a nice house, too nice for someone who works with this team in theory. The worst team in Exy full of known criminals.

The second the car stops she launches herself out, unaware of what Andrew might do and hoping to avoid whatever it is. She lands on her feet easily and watches the car lurch when the engine is fully cut.

Andrew follows her out, looking her up and down then chuckling and moving to the house. The next person is Aaron who scowls and her and crosses his arms at his chest. "Did your dumb ass hurt yourself doing that?"

"Don't go all med student on me," Naomi huffs and follows after Andrew knowing the rest of them will too. Aaron catches up to her. "I know how to get out of a car."

"Without nearly dying?"

"You're asking the wrong twin about that," Naomi says smirking at him. It's sort of entertaining to watch Aaron get annoyed. "Try asking yours."

"Whatever," Aaron says, it's sort of bored. He follows her into the main room. "If you hurt yourself go to Abby about it. She's the team nurse."

"I know how to jump out of a car, Aaron," She snaps at him.

When he stiffens and quirks an interested brow at her Naomi steps back and curses under her breath. She walks away from him quickly searching for Neil.

His tempter is slipping into her more and more as she grows up, or maybe it's her mother brutal honesty that's catching up to her. Either way it's making everything more difficult and making her more reckless. Naomi can't let something like that slip again.

She knows how to jump out of a car, God, if she said that to anyone else they would've been suspicious. All Naomi can hope for is that, for a med student, Aaron is inept.

Though she probably won't be that lucky because the universe hates her sometimes.

She stalks into the kitchen and sees the hectic atmosphere, automatically becoming uncomfortable at the way orders are being barked at the boys.

"Andrew Joseph Minyard, that had better not be what I think it is," The nurse snaps and makes Andrew giggle a little.

All eyes turn over to Nicky as Andrew keeps happily drinking himself into a faded stupor. Nicky sputters a bit. "What am i supposed to do? Take it from him?"

Everyone looks at him as if they agree, and maybe they should but that's a little ridiculous.

Naomi scoffs and moves further into the kitchen, watches as Andrew watches her moves. She stops in front of him and holds out her hand expectantly.

Andrew hands the bottle over and she grabs it before he changes his mind. Naomi drops it onto the counter in front of Nicky. "Actually grow a pair instead of talking about them."

She turns on her heel and walks back out of the kitchen, throughly over a bunch of teenagers in adult bodies. How Nicky was ever the legal guardian on the twins is beyond her.

From the kitchen she hears talking, and Naomi knows she should listen but she's too tired of people to pay attention.

In the back of her mind she knows she's playing a dangerous game, she's standing out too much. If she's seen to be able to handle Andrew, the antithesis of everyone's fear, then it makes her a player.