"Guys how are we going to do this?" I ask the boys as we are staring at the pool with multiple boxes of plastic eggs beside us.

"I guess we just put them in there." Noah says. So that's exactly what we did. We opened up all of the boxes and dumped the eggs into the pool.

I go over to the far corner of the pool, behind everyone to open the next box. That's when i feel a presence in front of me.

I look up from the box I was tearing open to see Josh. "Hey." I smile up at him.

"Hey babe." He says nonchalantly. I raise my eyebrows at him and look over to everyone to see if they heard.

"What?" He asks, clueless. I let out airy laugh before responding.

"We aren't dating Josh." I say. He shrugs his shoulders. "Well I like you and you like me right?" He asks.

I nod, seeing his point. "Well don't get too comfortable because you have to make an effort to ask me out before I take any of this seriously." I tell him.

"I know, I know." He says playfully rolling his eyes. I give him a small smile before going back to opening the cardboard box.

"I can't get it and the box cutter is all the way over there with Blake." I say struggling.

"Here let me do it." Josh says. He grabs part of the box and rips it open easily. I couldn't help but notice the veins that happen to pop out on his hands and arm as he rips the box open.

He gets it open then looks back at me. He gives me a strange look before I clear my throat.

"Thanks." I say quickly, trying to pick up the big box.

Before I can turn and walk back over to the pool Josh grabs me by my waist, back towards him.

"What?" I ask. "Can I not get a kiss for helping you?" He asks, a playful smirk on his lips.

"All you did was open a box Josh." I laugh. He smiles at me and I try hard not to swoon over the way his smile looks.

"Well I was doing you a favor so I think I deserve one back." He says. I sigh before putting the box down beside me.

I walk closer to him and grab his chin with my hand and bring his lips to mine. I kiss him and as I go to pull away he pulls me closer by my waist.

I let out a small laugh and separate my lips from his. "There you go." I say. "Are you happy now?" I ask.

"Very." He smiles. I playfully roll my eyes before grabbing the box and heading back to the pool.

I am standing by the sway house door, waiting for Bryce to pull up. I got a text from him 3 minutes ago saying he was turning into the neighborhood.

Throughout the time he was gone we posted videos to our instagram stories of us putting his PAU chain in different eggs and throwing it in the pool.

We also decided that we would make him think we threw it in the pool but really Noah would have it in his pocket the entire time.

I see his car pull up. It's show time. "Guys he's here!" I yell to them.

From a distance I hear Bryce's voice. "Where are they at?" I hear. I go into the living room with everyone else and act as casual as possible.

I sit next to Josh and throw my legs over his lap.

"Where are they at? Where's my necklace?" We hear again. "Actually I know where it is it's in the freaking pool." He says from outside.

"Yo guys! Guys you're so funny! The prank with the 20,000 necklace in the pool?" He says sarcastically as he walks into the house.

Cameras follow him in and I have to hide my smile. "So, you guys all posted it on your story. I see you guys put it in a different color each time so I wouldn't know which one it was in." He says to us.

We all make knowing noises, telling him he is correct. Bryce is livid but as much as we all want to feel bad for him what he did to Noah and Blake was pretty messed up so we had to get back at him.

"I literally hate all of you guys." He says. Noah let's out a laugh and I let one slip too.

"What are you guys sitting around here for? Get my necklace." He lets out a humorless laugh.

"Not going to lie, it's in the bottom of the pool." Griffin says, smiling.

"Not going to lie it's in the bottom of the pool." Bryce mocks him. "Noah I'm doing another stripper prank on you." He says walking away.

"Bryce you just don't learn man, this whole thing is because of the stripper prank." Noah says as we all get up and follow Bryce outside to the pool.

We make it to the pool and Bryce starts picking random eggs from the pool. "It's not on top." I say.

"Did it sink?" Josh asks. "No really, forget you guys." Bryce says with an attitude.

There is something about his energy that is giving me a feeling that this prank isn't the only reason he is pissed off but I try to brush that feeling away.

"It's definitely not in any of these and as soon as I dive in the pool and go through all the ones that are at the bottom you guys are going to be like 'ahaha it's right here'." Bryce says, revealing our whole plan.

"We're tired of the pranks." Noah says. "No, this isn't even a prank, this is like hey there's like money there." Bryce says.

"Like i'm not going in the pool, this is like ice cold. This is going on way too long, now it's getting very awkward." He says going and standing next to me.

"Pranks over." He says. Noah and Blake start laughing and I just shake my head.

He walks off from us and goes back inside the house.

As Bryce walks back into the house we all make a circle and wait for Noah to speak. "I think Im satisfied." He sighs.

"I mean I don't like seeing people getting frustrated like that, especially a friend like Bryce." He says. We all nod and go back inside to give Bryce his chain.

We see him in the kitchen and Noah takes the egg his chain is in and gives it to him.

He opens it carefully and gets his chain. "Thanks guys." He says to us.

We are all at the empty Billiard Club and Noah and Blake are playing air hockey, Bryce is playing pool and me and Josh are sitting at one of the couches. I have my legs laid out on his lap and he has one hand placed on my leg, rubbing my leg absentmindedly.

I smile at the little show of affection that just seems to come so natural for him. If i'm being honest i've never really been with a guy who's "love language" was touch before and so being with Josh is like something new I get to experience and I actually like it a lot.

I look over to Bryce at the pool table and he has a concentrated look on his face. I know that face.

There's still stuff on his mind and I can tell he wants to get it out.

"I'm going to go talk to Bryce really quick." I tell Josh, removing my legs from his lap. He nods before going back to whatever he was doing on his phone.

I walk over to the pool table, pulling up my nike pro shorts that I have on in the process.

I stop on the opposite side of the pool table that Bryce is on and watch him make his next move.

After me not saying a word and just watching him, he finally acknowledges my existence. "What's up Jadah?" He sighs.

He still doesn't make eye contact with me so I sigh. I prop myself up onto the pool table and sit criss-cross on it.

Once he sees that I'm blocking his shot he heavily sighs and finally looks at me, holding the pool queue beside him.

"What Jadah?" He asks again, this time a little bit of impatience in his voice.

"What's wrong Bryce?" I ask him. He gives me a look before scoffing. "Nothings wrong, what do you mean?" He asks.

"I know that that tiny little prank isn't the only reason you've been in a crappy mood since you got back." I say giving him a knowing look.

He looks at me for a minute before sighing. He can't deny that I know him like the back of my hand. After spending so much time around him i've learned  a lot about him, more than some people know.

Over the past few months of me working for him, he's become like a big brother to me. I also can't deny the fact that he can read me like an open book also. We have built such a strong sibling like bond that I'm honestly really thankful for.

"Cmon B, you know i'm not going to let it go until you tell me." I remind him.

"So when the prank happened, you got a lot madder than we thought you would." I say, laughing at the end of my sentence.

"You guys could tell I was mad?" He asks. I nod at him. "Well, at least I could." I correct.

"Why were you so pissed today? What was happening?" I ask him genuinely.

"It was the.....it was paparazzi." He reveals. "Dude it's like I get that they're doing their job but these guys are literally using our 20 year old drama for their monetary benefit." He starts.

I nod my head, letting him know that i'm listening. "Like I don't like any of these guys, and right before that prank, I was at Saddle Ranch." He continues. That's when a camera comes over to the pool table and starts filming us.

"And I asked them like three times i was like 'Yo can you just not film me'." He says. It suddenly clicks in my head, the situation he's talking about.

He and Addison have broken a while ago and  mutually decided to keep it off of the internet for both of their sakes, but recently she aired out their business and called Bryce her ex-boyfriend, going against what they both agreed on so Bryce had been getting tons of backlash due to all the rumors and speculations that people are making and she won't speak about it and shut them down.

I don't think he wants to admit it, but we can all tell it's hitting him harder than he thought it would.

"And they're not even real paparazzi! They're just like youtubers." He exclaims. "So it's like, oh yeah of all days you guys could pull this prank it's like, this day, you know?" He explains.

"I mean if I was in your situation I wouldn't talk to them either." I say, agreeing with him. "Oh yeah, I hate them." He says.

"Like sometimes we don't want a camera shoved in our face, asking personal questions." He says.

"So yeah, I kinda took most of my anger out on you guys and I apologize." He says.

"It's ok, Bryce. We get it, it was bad timing, everyone has their off days." I say getting up and going over to him.

"You're good now though right?" I ask him, pulling him into a hug.

"The wings are ready!" Kio yells.

Bryce looks down at me and smiles, putting the pool queue down. He wraps his arm around my shoulder and ruffles my hair.

"Now I am." He smiles.

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new chapter guysss i'm sorry it took so long to get out but this chapter is based off of one of the sway house reality tv show episodes so I had to watch the video piece by piece to get all the lines right😭.

i gave jadah some of the other boys lines so she'd be included so yeah.

omg yall this is the most i've written in a WHILEEE. i'm over 2000 words yall....

y'all better be glad i love y'all and this book🙄

anyways i hope this chapter gave y'all (if y'all couldn't tell already i live in the south 😭) a little bit more of josh and jadah moments (comment ship names for them btw)

but more importantly i wanted the highlight of this chapter to be bryce and jadahs dialogue. i wanted to show a little more of their really close relationship and show you guys how comfortable and important they are to each other and the sibling like love they have for each other.

so lmk how you like their little relationship with one another bc i actually really like it🥰.

anyways

have i expressed to y'all how much i LOVE long haired vinnie? no well i LOVE LONG HAIRED VINNIE SO MUCH MHSJSHSKSKS

OMG PLS IM OBSESSED SO MUCH HELP😭 his hair just looks so fluffy, especially when he puts a bandana like he has it there.

if he cuts it and y'all don't hear from me for at least 2-3 weeks you know why😃.

i will be in my bed crying my eyes out to videos of long haired vinnie😭

anyways i'll stop bc i'm already a 2300 words stay bad my loves🥰🥰