Chapter 4 4.

- POV LAYLA

"What's up?" Luiza asks me, as she wraps her arms around Kat's brother, and I'm on my fifth shot of tequila.

"Yeah... excuse me quickly, I need to have a word with my sister."

He looks at me confused, and Lu smiles. I take her arm and lead her to a more secluded corner.

"Maria Luiza Collins! What do you think you're doing? You've barely met the boy and you're already hanging around his neck?"

"You do know me, but he and I are free and clear, so I live a crazy life there!" she says, putting her hands on her waist and rolling her eyes.

She plays tough, but the first time she gets hit she cries and it's left to me to invent new flavors of brigadiers to please her.

With Mum's death, I have kind of taken responsibility for some things and Luiza is part of that, not that my father doesn't help with her upbringing, far from it, he's wonderful, but some things she always talks to me about, the first time she menstruated she told me and she was scared, then came the first kiss followed by the love disappointment and so on.

That's why I'm very reserved, I don't allow myself to enter someone's life, only to come out hurt afterward.

"Okay, I just don't want you to get hurt."

"I know you care about me, and I appreciate that, but I've already suffered too much from boys and it's not some hottie from the countryside who's going to make me give up my tires, it's him who's going to be my bitch, wait and see," she says and I take a deep breath.

"When you put something in your head, no one can get it out, okay, you know what you're doing, but you've just said that you're both free and you're already planning your plan."

"Layla, enough of this, let's enjoy Kik-kat's party, or rather her hot brother's, and these people know how to throw a party... but I haven't seen the other brother yet."

"Another brother?" I ask because I thought it was just that one.

"Yes, the owner of all this, there are people, but specifically women, waiting for him to show himself, they say that man is a sin... but I'm already sinning with this one, I can't get any dirtier," she explains and I smile.

She takes my hand and goes to meet Thomas again, he greets me and they both dance.

I watch the two of them and smile as I realize that my sister is using her weapons to seduce Kat's brother, and he can't take his eyes off hers.

If it were me dancing there, I'd be sure she was faking it, but it's Luiza there, and she's beautiful, self-confident, seductive, some things I'm not yet, and that's why I want to believe it's not faking it.

Speaking of Kat, she comes up to me and asks me to dance and I accept.

"What's up? I hope you're enjoying the party?" she asks, moving to the sound of some country music beat.

"Yes, I am, you know how to throw a party here," I say and she smiles gratefully.

"Thanks!" she says, giving me a wink.

"Come on, let's have a drink," she calls and pulls me into the bar again.

We ordered two shots of tequila, drank them and our facial expressions were identical, I could taste the bitterness in my mouth, but we ordered another two, and again, and again, and I lost count.

I have a serious problem with alcohol, I like it.

"Kat, don't leave me alone, for the love of Puritans."

"Never, girlfriend." She hugs me and we're interrupted by a very handsome blond guy with blue eyes, pulling Kat to dance, I look at her begging her not to go, but the son of a bitch did.

You bastard!

I sit down on the bar stool and ask for a glass of water, I take it and feel my bladder ache.

Shit!

How am I going to find a toilet in here?

I look around for my sister, but I can't find her.

Fuck!

Fuck!

I decide to take a chance and enter Kat's house, there's a bathroom there, I pass through the living room, then the kitchen, I stop at two doors, one next to the other.

"Okay, just pick one, open it, and hope it's the bathroom."

I take a deep breath and open the door.

Okay, I hope I find some sanitary water in the bathroom to splash in my eyes and forget what I saw before I close the doors.

Maya was standing completely naked, with a man wearing nothing but jeans, he pushed her against the wall, pressing his knee into the middle of her legs, before kissing her neck, when they both made mention of looking away, I closed the door at lightning speed.

I immediately erase it from my mind, and I hope they haven't seen me, I turn to the other door, open it and breathe a sigh of relief when I realize it's the bathroom, I don't know if I'd be able to see other people fucking again.

Damn! Why didn't I open this one before?

I empty my bladder, wash my hands, and leave, and it's a good thing I didn't bump into anyone, I go back to the party and find my sweet, thuggish sister.

I pulled her by the arm and she looked at me confused.

"I'm leaving and you're staying here?"

"Yes, I'm going, cover me, okay?"

"No! I'm not going to get in trouble with Dad because of you."

"Layla... please!"

She asks about five times until I say yes, hugs me, then goes back into Thomas's arms and Kat finally appears.

"Hey, redhead! I've had enough, I'm leaving."

"Oh no girlfriend, I'm sorry for leaving you alone, it's just that Rick has your attributes and they interest me a lot."

"You left me alone Katherine."

She looks at me with an amused expression on her face.

"Please don't go yet, I haven't even introduced you to my older brother, I don't know what he's gotten himself into, I think you'll get on very well, he's a complainer just like you."

"Some other day you'll introduce us, now I have to go."

"OK, I'll collect, see you tomorrow?"

"Of course!" I say and she hugs me goodbye, I get in the car and drive home, trying to forget the scene I've just witnessed.

God! I have to forget it.