Belle

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It's had been 2 days of me being cooped up in the hotel room with my brother and Ace. They refused to leave my side, even when I slapped my brother out of frustration and he simply shrugged it off and continued to feed me, ignoring my curses directed towards him. When he once again dazed off into thought I sighed heavily realizing he wasn't gonna leave me alone.

I hadn't seen Elani since the night we got home and I rolled my eyes at the fact that my brother had obviously done something to make her mad once again.

I wondered if us leaving in 6 days had anything to do with it. I felt terrible for messing up my friend's vacation. Of course, I still hadn't seen Calista and I suspect she was at least having fun but other than her, the rest of us had been pretty busy the last couple of days.

Today was different than the past two, today Ace had told Kaden to go somewhere secret which they had told me was a surprise. I rolled my eyes and told them how much I hate surprises and they simply shrugged before Kaden left leaving me and Ace all alone in the hotel.

"Ace if you don't give me the fucking remote right now I swear I'll throw my pills in the toilet" I sternly tell the brunette boy who had been grinning like a child all day. I raised an eyebrow waiting for him to reply and when he failed to I quickly stood up and began to pad to the washroom before two big arms held my waist.

"Belle," he said gruffly.

"Hmm" I smirked knowing I had won.

"That's your brother's viagra" he whispered with a smirk when I screamed and dropped the bottle out of my hand without a second thought and ran to clean my hands.

"Wait a minute-" I turned thinking about how he got it through baggage check and where he got it from in the first place and my face filled with heat.

"You. Little. Fucking. Liar!" I yell at him when I see him holding my pills in one hand and the remote in another getting comfortable in his bed.

"You know, being so angry all the time isn't good for your soul." He said in a wise voice that made me want to rip his face off.

"You know being an asshole all the time isn't the best thing for your soul!" I screeched.

"It takes one to know one" he muttered under his breath but I heard.

"It also takes brain cells to know anything and you sure as hell lack a whole bunch of those" I replied with a short smile.

He raised his hand to his chest to fake being hurt and I rolled my eyes at his theatrics.

Walking over to where he was sitting, I grabbed the remote away from him and began scrolling through channels before flopping down beside him and choosing on some random channel.

"You're not even watching this!" He exclaimed and I laughed at his frustration. I continued scrolling on my phone before he snatched my phone out of my hands.

I tried to put on my best poker face before speaking "Alexander Xavier Hernandez do not make me smack that smirk off your face"

His hazel eyes held a playful spark as he began running around the room with my phone in hand.

I refused to move and help my ground.

"My phone please?" I mutter when he looked at me once again.

"You're no fun" he grumbled and set my phone on the bed before laying down himself and closing his eyes.

"Ace you just woke up why the hell are you sleeping again?" I asked furrowing my brows.

"Belle you just woke up, I woke up at 6 to get your brother to go the- get your surprise." He said and I was once again confused. What was such an important present that needed him to wake up at 6 am?