The Best Man's Speech

4: More & More Lies

✵ LYRA ✵

I stared at my mother in confusion as she glared at me. My brothers had frozen as my father started to suspect me too. Meanwhile, my perfect sister in law was too busy gawking at my brilliant mother's words.

"That's not the case." James lied perfectly.

"Mother, it's a requirement for every female staff in the company to have means of sexual protection. For their own safety." Michael added, trying to drag my dead soul from the grips of my mother. He wasn't lying though, it was true that we were asked to refrain from sex and have protected sex for our own safety. But the rules were suggested and not instructed.

"And you know this because...?" My mother interrogated further.

"I had to explain it to him when he caught me handing them to her." James answered before explaining more, "I wanted to ensure your daughters safety. But her being just like you had refused to keep any on her despite me insisting. So I bought her some and forced her to keep them on her." I looked at the man as he not only lied to my family but also was slyly buttering my mother up for no reason.

"Oh." Was all my mother said. Until my father glared at her to apologise, which she did.

Breakfast came to a slow end and left everyone to worry about my sister's return and her wedding, which happened to be the topic of the day. I wasn't the only one who didn't contribute, James didn't say anything since he had no idea what to say. I can't say the same about his hands, they spent the whole breakfast sliding up my legs and heating my core up more than they needed to be. Luckily, I managed to leave the dining table with the excuse that I had work to do. I took up the perfect opportunity to lock myself in my own room away from the hassles of my sister getting married.

I sat still on my study desk, not working at all, while my jacket was hanging on the back of the chair. "Knock knock!" A voice intruded, from outside my room said as they knocked on the door. I walked over to open it and saw James standing outside my room,"Hi." My eyes focused on his brown hair that was ruffled to the side messily... but it was a good look on him.

"Hi." He replied. "May I come in?" He asked. I nodded as I opened the door wider to grant him access.

"I'm sorry about my mother." I randomly blurted out.

"It's fine. But she looked so angry about it." He responded, wanting for me to explain why.

"She has conservative views about marriage and sex and the alike. She expects us to stay virgins till marriage and wants every female to be ladylike." I explained.

"But you're not?"

"None of us are." I answered, mentioning my siblings. I chuckled as he gave me a weird stare, "Derin was the first one out of us to lose his virginity... in high school. But he didn't have sex until he got into uni, where he met Victoria. My sister, Meia, had lost hers during senior high... much like I did. Michael lost his a year before senior year."

"Does that make her naturally homophobic?" He asked before sitting down in the edge of my bed, referring to my mother's conservative nature.

"No. She just wants us all to be perfect little saints and has no issues with other people and their sexualities." I informed.

"She's confusing." He commented.

"You'll get used to it." I smiled.

"I actually came here to talk about last night." James formally addressed. I blankly looked at him as I waited for him to explain, which he did, "I am sorry that I did what I did last night. And I'm sorry to have hurt you in the process. I understand if you'd like for us to stop-" I didn't want to hear the rest of it so crashed my lips against his. His hand slid up my side before pushing me down on my back so that he was on top of me.

I tugged at his shirt, wanting for him to take it off. He happily granted me my wish by removing it completely. His lips were pressed against mine roughly as we fought for dominance, eventually he won and let his tongue rub against mine. I moaned as I pushed my upper body against his, wanting for him to give me more.

I pulled him closer by tightening my grip on his hair and by kissing him harder. I started to tug at his lips with my teeth before letting go and allowing him to pin my arms to the side of my head as he kissed me roughly. I moaned into his mouth, wanting more.

"Hey sis-" Mike said as he barged into my room, before choking up on his own words. I pushed James off and made myself seem presentable, by brushing my hair down with my fingers and straightening my crinkled shirt.

"Umm... it's not what it looks like." James sheepishly declared, sitting up straight on my bed.

"Yeah it's not you making out with my baby sister." Michael mocked him sarcastically as he glared at the man whose mouth was just on mine.

"Okay maybe it is that..." James surrendered, making me want to smack the back of his head with a flower vase. I glared at the back of his head, trying to burn a hole through it.

"So you lied to my mother? The both of you?" My brother seemed offended on her behalf, jokingly. He winked at me as James wore a worried expression and I just smiled at him. James turned around to look at me for help as I nodded in response to my brother's question. I shrugged in response to James seeking an answer, before looking up at my brother worryingly.

"Don't worry your dirty little secret is safe with me." He whispered, placing his index finger in front of his lips. I sighed in relief as I watched him quietly leave the room, shutting the door behind him.