brother's best friend || joey birlem

chapter five

"What the hell?" Tayler yelled, waking me up. He was staring at me confused, and then I realized what he was looking at. I found myself laying right next to Joey, and his arm was draped around my waist. I rolled off the couch and into the floor, and then Joey sat up on the couch.

"What the actual freak is going on?" Tayler asked me and Joey.

"What do you mean?" Joey asked.

"You had your arm around my sister!" Tayler said, starting to sound mad.

"Tayler, it's really not what it looks like." I said.

"Explain. Now." Tayler told me.

"I woke up in the middle of the night to get a drink and I accidentally woke Joey up and then we talked for a while and then I fell asleep on the other side of the couch and I don't know how we ended up like that I swear!" I explained.

"I'm so confused. Can someone tell me what's happening?" Joey said.

"I came in here to see you and Kaylee asleep on the couch, and your arm was around her!" Tayler told Joey.

"I didn't even know I did that, man. I swear." Joey said.

"Whatever. I'm over it. Just don't let it happen again, it's weird" Tayler said, walking into the kitchen. I looked at Joey and he shrugged his shoulders.
I got up off the floor and went to my bathroom. I put on some mascara and concealer. Then I straightened my hair and put on one of Tayler's shirts and some black leggings. I didn't plan on going anywhere so I didn't need to look good.
I walked into the kitchen where my mom was cooking breakfast. Joey and Tayler were sitting at the bar and I sat next to Tayler.

"Morning sweetie. How'd you sleep?" My mom asked. I felt Tayler looking at me.

"Good. Really good." I said.

"That's good, honey. I bet Joey is a good teddy bear." She winked at me as she stirred the pancake batter.

"You saw that too?" I asked, face palming myself.

"Yes I did. I also took a picture. So are you two like a couple?" She asked.

"No. I don't know how we ended up like that because I fell asleep at the opposite side of the couch." I told her.

"Oh, well I'm keeping the picture. It's adorable." She smiled. I looked over at Joey who was blushing like crazy. Then I looked at Tayler who was literally cringing.

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After we ate breakfast, I heard my phone buzz and I saw that my mom had sent me the picture of me and Joey. I smiled as I looked at it. She was right, it was pretty cute. Then, Joey came into my room.

"Did your mom send you the picture too?" He asked.

"Yeah. She did." I laughed. He looked down and laughed a little bit. He came and sat next to me on my bed.

"Take a picture with me." Joey told me. He held his phone and he had a dog filter on his face, and I saw one on my face too. I smiled and he stuck out his tongue and then he snapped the picture. I saw him save it and post it to his snapchat story.

"Hey, I'm going home. I'll see you later. I'll probably be back tomorrow or maybe even tonight." Joey laughed.

"Okay, see you later." I smiled. He got up and walked out.

About ten minutes after Joey left, I was tagged in a photo on Instagram. It was the one me and Joey had just taken. He posted to his Instagram.

@itsjoeybirlem
who's a cuter puppy? I think kaylee wins this round.

I smiled at my phone and screenshotted the picture and decided to post it too.

@kayleeholder
I gotta new puppy & his names joey:)

I posted the picture and smiled at it again.   I think I'm really starting to like Joey. He's cute, sweet, and funny. But I don't think Tayler would let me like him. I kept getting comments asking if me and Joey were dating, and I would respond to as many as I could saying that we werent. As I looked at the comments on Joey's post, he did the same thing. After a while, I got a text from Blake.

Blake:
Who's Joey?

Me:
My brother's friend

Blake:
Are yall a thing?

Me:
No I don't think so

Blake:
Okay.

I put my phone down. Is Blake jealous or something? Probably not. He doesn't like me that way. I mean, I don't think he does anyway. The kiss probably didn't mean anything. He was probably just sad I was leaving and didn't know how to respond to the situation.