Good Girl With a Secret Life

Part 40

Aria POV:

We pulled into Red Bank and I was looking for a parking spot. I decided to park in the lot behind Main Street. It would only be a 2 block walk to the restaurant and hopefully once things go good we would go for drinks afterwards. We got out and Ryder suddenly pinned me up against the car. I looked up at him and he smashed his lips against me. I wrapped my arms around his neck and started kissing him back. It was getting heated when suddenly we heard someone clear their throat.

We both looked up and fuck. There was my brother. "Uhh, Hey Jon. You're early. How'd that happen?" I let out a nervous laugh. My brother was just glaring at Ryder. Ryder stood up straight and wrapped his arm around my waist and used his other hand to shake my brothers hand. My brother looked at Ryder's outreaches hand and finally shook it. "Ryder Smith, nice to meet you properly when you're not punching me in the face." My brother stared at him. "Jon, And you're lucky I'm not punching you in the face right now after just watching you all over my baby sister." Ryder looked at me and then back at my brother "touché, I deserved that." I cleared my throat. "Come on boys, let's go have a nice dinner. I'm starving."

They both eyed each other and finally nodded. As we were walking my brother turned to me "So you got another car already?" I looked at him confused then realized I was driving Ryder's car. "Nah, that's Ryder's baby, but Ryder hung out with Dad for an hour and dad pulled out the Ouzo. You know how that played out." My brother burst out laughing. "He must actually like this guy." I nodded and smiled.

Ryder offered to go inside and grab us a table. He came back out a few minutes later. "It's an hour wait. Bitch took the hundred bucks I slipped her and then she said still an hour. What the fuck?" Me and my brother started laughing. I put my hand over his shoulder. "Babe we'll take care of this." We all walked in and I saw Rose hostessing. "Hey Rose." She looked up. "OMG Aria!" She gave me a hug. Then she looked over "Jon! Where have you been hiding?" He chuckled. We started making small talk then I spoke. "Rose, think you can give us the extra table so we don't need to wait?" She smiled at us. "Of course, considering that one already gave me a hundred bucks. He gave up too much easy. After another hundred he would have gotten the table." My and my brother looked at Ryder and started laughing at him, Ryder ran his hands over his face. "Well fuck." We kept laughing even more.  Poor Ryder.

We all sat down and as of now everything was going smooth. We ordered two bottles of wine and a few appetizers. My brother was actually on his best behavior making small talk with Ryder. After appetizers things got a little more tense. My brother looked at Ryder. "So Ryder, how did you end up with a successful multi million dollar company at only 23? Family money?" Ryder shook his head "Nope, don't have any family. I just busted my ass off and worked hard." My brother scoffed at him. "Bullshit." Ryder looked up "excuse me?"

"Jon, play nice." He shrugged me off. "You heard me Ryder, I said bullshit! I'm a business man and I know want kind of capital you need. So where did you get those kind of funds to build up you're corporation?" I noticed Ryder tensing up and I grabbed his hand and squeezed it. I looked over at my brother "Ryder busted his ass off working. He got lucky working for a successful company who helped him learn the reins. He got his degree in 2 years instead of 4 and even went back for his masters. Unlike your ass who had a full ride from mom and dad and threw it all away to party."

My brother stared me down with anger in his eyes. "Sis, you need to watch the way you talk to me." I just rolled my eyes. "Jon, you need to stop now. Instead of trying to put Ryder down about his success maybe you should learn from it." He chugged his wine and asked for another bottle. He looked up at Ryder "Look I'm not trying to put you down. Your success is admirable. I'll give you that. I'm just trying to figure you out and also trying to figure out why a successful CEO at such a young age who can play the field and get any girl he wants is going after my 16 year old sister." Then he looked up at me "and Aria, don't take that the wrong way.  You are amazing, beautiful and smart.  You deserve only the best.  I still never understood why you dated that trash from the projects."  I just shook my head.  I know my brother is a bit tipsy.  I'll ignore his comment for now.