Stealing the heart of my best friend's brother

GENESIS POV As I pulled up to my best friend’s house one afternoon after school I reached across and grabbed my bag which had all my school books in it and a change of clothes, since these things always ended up turning into a sleep over. As I walked up their long footpath to the front door, I raised my hand to knock on the door when it suddenly opened before I had a chance. Standing in front of me was a guy wearing a black singlet and jeans showing off the tattoos that covered both of his arms and disappeared under his shirt. He was a good 6 foot 5 now and his black hair was tousled to make it look good instead of messy. Who’s this guy? Sophie’s new date? “Hi, I am here to see Sophie.” He turned sideways and yelled at the house “You got a visitor, Sophie.” Then he turned back to look at me with a smirk on his face and his eyes staring at me. I felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him like this, so I reached out my hand, trying to break this embarrassing silence. “Hi I am Sophie’s friend, you must be her new boyfriend, nice to meet you.” He bursted out a hysterical laugh hearing my words, he must have laughed for five minutes because he laughed so hard his face was all red. “Blaze. Would you get the hell out of the way and leave her alone?” Sophie yelled from behind him and pushed him aside. He glanced over his shoulder and then looked back at me and winked before he walked past me and down the stairs to leave the house. “Sorry, Genesis. It’s my brother Blaze. He’s been so annoying since he got home.” Sophie said, closing the door as I walked inside. I was shocked when I heard the name Blaze. I used to have a huge crush on him before he went away. Blaze had left the pack to live with relatives 5 years ago when I was 12 and he was 14 because of behavioral issues. I wasn’t too sure what he was really doing, but I knew that he was hard to control. But everyone tried to shield myself and his sister from what he was doing. He had definitely changed from the scrawny guy I used to know, and have a little crush on, to the guy that he is today. The muscles bulging and all of those tattoos. I really started wondering where the hell his parents had sent him. “Why didn’t you tell me that he was back?” I asked. “Because I didn’t think it mattered. He’s been gone for five years. Don’t tell me that you still have a crush on him.” Sophie said. “No. Of course not.” I said, quickly looking away and I turned to walk up the stairs. “Oh my god. You’ve gotta be kidding me.” She said, following me. “Can we please just get started on this assignment?” I asked. “Fine. I’m leaving the beginning up to you because I don’t even know what the hell we are meant to be doing.” She said. We pulled out our books and I leaned up against her bed on the floor while I pulled out a notepad and a pen while looking through the textbook. I was staring at the textbook, trying to read it when my mind started wandering to Blaze standing at the door. Staring down at me. Giving me that wry little smile that made me want to melt. I really thought I had gotten over my crush, but obviously I hadn’t. It was back. And a lot worse than before. I just thought he was cute back then and a bad boy. But now, I can’t stop thinking about him. “Knock it off.” Sophie said, snapping me out of my day dream. “What?” I asked. “I know what you’re thinking, but don’t, don’t do this to yourself. You know exactly what he is like. A straight A student like you can’t tame him, you’ll just get your heart broken.” “What do you mean?” I asked. Sophie looked at me and I lowered my head, yes I know exactly what she meant. Neither of us said anything and we went back to the assignment and when we looked up again at the wall it’s two hours later. Sophie stretched her back and gave me a mysterious smile. Then she pulled out a couple cans of beer from under her bed. And she handed me one. “Here, try this.” I hesitated a bit because I’ve never tried it before, but curiosity got me and I opened it and took a sip. Spicy. I took another sip, and then another. Sophie opened hers and took a big gulp of it, she turned on her speakers and attached them to her phone and cranking the music really loudly. I just looked at her at first with a goofy smile on my face and I must have got that blush on my cheeks because it’s burning hot, but she grabbed my hand and pulled me up and we started dancing around the room. Like we always ended up doing. “What about your parents?” I asked. “They’re out of town for a couple of days.” She said. “So, they aren’t going to yell at us tonight.” I said. “Nope. It’s just us.” She said. And I got on the bed and started jumping up and down and dancing at the same time. Having a great time, like we always did. I don’t know why our parents always needed to rain on our parade. We just wanted to have fun. Which is probably why Sophie was always getting us into trouble at school as well. Alright. It wasn’t always Sophie. But they were never able to find evidence that I did anything. I had been dancing around the room for a while when I had to use the bathroom. So I walked out of Sophie’s room and down the hall a little bit and I opened the bathroom door to be met with a whole bunch of steam which I thought was really odd. When the steam cleared I saw Blaze just stepping out of the shower and reaching for a towel when he saw me standing there. I froze where I was and so did Blaze, but just for a moment. He turned his full gaze on me and smirked at me, seeing the embarrassment on my face. I had to get out of there but I felt like I was glued to the ground right now.