seven souls seven sins

chapter 84: helping hand

Nico's pov:

"This is perfect for a two man job." My girlfriend hands me and her annoying brother a heavy box to carry out to my car. Xander scoffs. "When's the other man showing up?" Rolling his eyes in the process. "Get a load of this guy." I sarcastically break the fourth wall at his snappy comeback.

"One of these days, your smart mouth is going to get you stabbed." Ms.Perfect places her hands on her attracting hips.

"Pfft, as if I haven't been stabbed before." I shrug it off and lift down the heavy box with Xander. "Natasha!" He calls for her right after I purposefully stepped on his toe. "Your friend over here has two left feet." Her irritating brother undermines the word 'friend'. "Yet this friend is carrying his girlfriend's stuff to his house." I taunt him as we get to my car.

"Watch it Harper." He bites back with a snarl and on the count of three we lift it into my trunk.

As I make my way back towards the front door I pause when this smartass opens his mouth. "You always bring me so much joy." I hear him behind me. I turn around with an arched brow in place. "As soon as you leave the room." Xander smugly folds his arms and smirks at my bored face.

"Great baddie comeback Xand, maybe get more tips before you try flatter me again." I playfully shrug him with no playfulness intended.

"Natasha! Can I punch your friend now?" He calls as we make it upstairs. "Xander you've asked me that 20 times already." Nat shakes her head negatively at Xander's snitch. She hands each of us another box and all three of us finally place the last loads into my car. "Wasn't so hard was it?" I pat my future brother-in-law on the back.

"Well it would've been easier if you'd gotten enough oxygen at birth." He retaliates and hits a nerve.

Nat knows about what happened to my mother and comes to my side. "We can go now babe, I just need to say goodbye to the maids." The sweetest girl in the word scurries off to say goodbye to her maids. She truly has a heart of gold, her brother on the other hand doesn't.

"Well I guess this is it." I reach my hand out for him to shake with a satisfied grin on my cheeks.

"You have your entire life to be a dick, why not take today off?" Xander's hand clasps into mine as we dab each other up. "Your ass must be pretty jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth?" I comment back and sarcastically act in awe. "You staring at my ass Harper?" Nat's brother arches a brow and a laugh follows shortly after.

"In your dreams." I scoff at our bickering.

"My dreams consist of you going far away someday, and really hoping that you'd stay there." Xander hints at my home country, the land of the free. "Remember when I asked for your opinion? Me neither." I shake my head negatively. "Stop it you two." Nat scolds the both of us.

"Hey! I didn't even say anything." Xander complains but he's engulfed in a hug which shuts him up.

"I'll be seeing you in school right?" He needs to clarify or he might explode. "Of course silly, wouldn't miss it for the world." Ms.Perfect's attention reverts back to me. After Flynn death last month, Nat and I have been two peas in a pod since. We eat together, play together, and now sleep together.

I know we have our separate beds but the idea is there.

My arm slips around her waist once I get her back and I open the car door for her. "Hands off Harper." Xander stares daggers at me but I dismiss them and drive away. It was only him in the house as Nat moving away wasn't collectively agreed upon between the rest of her brothers.