Loving Myself

Chapter 6

Today is Archer and my six month anniversary. I know most people only celebrate their anniversary on the year mark, but hey, we can do whatever we want. Tonight Archer is picking me up from home and is taking me somewhere but he is being tight lipped about it. I can't even get any information out of Drake or Bianca as they helped him organize and plan our date.

Archer isn't picking me up until 5:30 tonight, currently its noon and I'm lying on my bed scrolling through my social medias. I'm excited for our date tonight but nervous at the same time since I have no clue where we're going.

There's a light knock on my bedroom door before it opens as Jacob enters with our three sisters. Smiling at them but very curious as to why all four of them are coming into my room.

"What's up?" I ask pushing myself up on my elbows to sitting against the headboard to make room for all of them to sit with me.

All of them just smile brightly at me before Jacob gestures toward the bedroom door. Turning my eyes toward the doorway, I find myself staring at Noelle and Gavin leaning against opposite sides with huge grins.

"Jace!" Gavin yells as he runs toward me and launching himself on top of me wrapping himself around me in a hug.

Wrapping my arms around his middle I pull him tightly to me in a hug. "Hi bud, how are you?" I whisper into his hair peppering the top of his head in kisses.

"I'm good but I miss you," he giggles back quietly.

Glancing upwards from my little brother as the bed dips from Noelle's slight weight, "How are you, No?"

She giggles at my childhood nickname as she wraps Gavin and I in a hug. "I'm good, Jay, but I miss you, too," she whispers before kissing my cheek.

The seven of us sit in my room for a few hours talking before we head to the ice cream parlor and then to the playground before I have to be home to prepare myself for my date tonight.

When we entered the ice cream parlor, as we're standing in line waiting our turn to order, I feel a pair of warm hands cover my eyes causing me to instantly giggle. I know those hands anywhere.

"Hi love, how are you?" I ask giggling as Archer removes his hands to kiss me on the lips from above me as I lean my head back and he leans his forward.

"Hi baby, I'm good and yourself," he says back in his sexy deep voice. I answer him.

Looking around embarrassed that we totally PDAed in public, I see Gavin and Noelle staring at us with their mouths hanging open. I haven't seen them in six months and I guess none of our siblings have told them that I'm dating anyone let alone someone who was a friend prior.

"Um, babe," I say drawing Archer's attention back to me. "This is my little brother, Gavin and my older sister, Noelle," I say pointing to them. Gesturing back to Archer I continue, "Gav, No, this is my boyfriend, Archer."

"Nice to meet you both, I've heard a lot about the both of you," he says holding his hand out to Gavin first then Noelle with a bright, welcoming smile that I love.

"Um, hi," Gav says taking Archer's hand to shake before Noelle returns the greeting and handshake.

Noelle turns her attention back to me after telling a family with three small children to order ahead of us because we hadn't decided what flavors we wanted yet. "Why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend, Jace?" I can hear the disappointment in her tone.

Hanging my head I mumble out, "I'm sorry, Noelle, I would have thought one of these four would have told you on one of their weekends."

She huffs at me as the eight of us place our orders and we pay. Taking our ice cream cups from the server the eight of us head to the park to sit and eat in the beautiful 60 degree weather that we're having since it's only the beginning of April and it's starting to finally warm up.