Asher's POV
Seeing my brothers names on Ari's knuckles does make me just a little bit jealous. I know I'm being overly possessive though, but it's hard not to be with her. I love that she loves us all. I love that she's giving us the same gesture we gave her by getting her name tattooed on us.
As Danny closes up the shop, West and Cade both hold her hands up in theirs admiring their names, big dumb grins on their faces , each of them taking turns stealing kisses from her.
Once the shop is closed Danny tells us to meet at his place.
We all pile into the truck and make the short drive to Danny's house where he lives with a few roommates. When we get there, there's several cars on the street and yard, and a small party or get together going on. Danny's house always has at least a dozen people in it at night it seems.
We all walk in, and Danny introduces Ari to a few people, and he warns them to not shake her hand due to his fresh work on her knuckles and they all chuckle and ask to see it, a few raised brows at the fact both of my brothers names are on her hands.
But Ari doesn't seem to give two fucks, or worry about people asking her why she has two guys names on her hands. She shows them off, and each of my brother swing an arm around her. West's over her shoulders, and Cade's around her waist.
"She's a Stone now, she had to prove her loyalty." West says and Ari just rolls her eyes and shakes her head with a laugh.
"You wanna get a drink first before?" Danny asks me, and I take my gaze from her addictive smile that she shares with the room and to Danny and nod.
I follow him into the kitchen where there are several girls , one of them being...fucking Birdie.
Her red hair is down, her natural curls wild around her, and she's wearing a green long sleeved top, which has her massive tits looking good as fuck as her cleavage bursts out the top. She's wearing tight jeans and I can't lie and say my dick doesn't respond to her, and I feel the twitch of my cock beg for her familiar pussy. I can't help it, and I wish I didn't have that kind of reaction, but I'm only a man, and I've had her on my cock so many fucking times that it's impossible not to think of her naked everytime I lay eyes on her. I know her body well.
As Danny hands me a bottle from the fridge her head finally turns and she lays those damn eyes on me from across the room and her smile lifts higher for a moment, and then she schools it, having forgotten for a brief second that she hates my guts since I told her shit was done and over with us.
As the girls around her talk, she lays her eyes on me as Danny leans in and whispers to me.
"Red is giving you daggers." he says.
A smile touches my lips.
"Yeah, I know." I say, lifting my beer and taking a sip and challenge her stare down by not letting my eyes be the first to drift away.
I love Ariella. I know that, for a fucking fact, so I don't know why the hell i'm entertaining this little showdown with Birdie. I guess , just because we were friends for so long, and she really is a cool chick. I can't help it she got deeper feelings involved when we hooked up.
Danny chuckles and pats my back as Birdie bravely makes her away around the girls and towards me.
I cock my head to the side with a little smile, stroking my beard with one hand as I look her over, making no point of hiding the fact I can still appreciate how hot she is.
"Hey asshole.." She says as a greeting, as if it's my name, when she's close enough, staring up at me, her eyes narrowed slightly.
I let my smile grow, because Birdie liked to affectionately call me this whenever we'd have disagreements. So it let me know she wasn't still raging mad at me.
"Miss me?" I ask, cocking my head and she rolls her eyes.
"Don't flirt with me if you don't plan on fucking me Asher." she says and crosses her arms.
I laugh, and reach out and place a hand ontop of her head and rub, messing up her hair a bit. She bats my hand away , her lips tightening as she tries not to laugh and then slaps my arm on the side for good measure.
"Still mad at me?" I ask.
"I'm always mad at you. Dick." she says and rolls her eyes.
We just stand there and I smile at her, both of us just looking at one another and she ends up sighing.
"God, I'm such a fool." she says shaking her head.
"Usually, yes." I tease.
She rolls her eyes and I give her an apologetic smile.
"I knew it." she said.
"Knew what?" I ask, leaning back against the counter, taking another sip of my beer.
"I'd always thought you and I were end game." she says and a part of me does feel bad. And I don't say it, but before Ariella came into my life, a small part of me thought me and Birdie would end up together too. Even though I'd always told her we were just friends with benefits.
I lift my hand and scratch behind my neck, and rub it.
"I know." I say with a tone that's apologetic.
"You fucking stole my damn heart years ago." she says.
My lips tighten slightly and I wince slightly.
"I never meant to hurt you Birdie." I say honestly.
She sighs. "Yeah, I know."
"But I knew it." she says again. "The second I saw how you looked at her."
My eyebrows lift slightly.
"I'd hoped I was wrong. I'd hoped she was awful too." Birdie sighs and then lets out a laugh that surprises me and she shakes her head.
"She's a lucky fucking bitch." Birdie says. "She has all of you. Every girls damn dream. Has you all wrapped around her finger." She says shaking her head, and her tone is slightly envious but sounds as if she knew it would happen.
"God I want to hate her." Birdie says.
I cock my head at her in warning.
She rolls her eyes. "I don't though. Well...maybe a small part of me does...but...I fucking love you Asher...always have...and if she's what you want...what makes you happy...that's all I really want for you. No matter how much it sucks for me." she says.
My eyes lift in a slight surprise.
"Thank you little bird." I tell her and she sighs heavily.
"Don't call me that anymore Asher. It's not fair." she says, and I nod.
"Got it." I say.
I pull my little red headed friend into my arms and hug her tight to me.
"Friends?" I ask as I kiss the top of her head.
She nods into my chest silently.
I stroke her gorgeous red hair and kiss the top of her head again.
When I pull away and hold Birdie's face, I lean down and kiss her forehead. I hear her sigh again and then when I pull back, it's as if I feel it.
Turning my head I find Ari , giving me an angry fucking stare, which should scare me, and alright maybe it does a little, but more than anything it turns me the fuck on.
Birdie follows my gaze.
"Oh." she says and backs up.
"Talk to you later Asher." she says and dips out of the room the opposite way.
I look at Ari, still leaned up against the counter, I don't make a move to make myself look guilty, because I know her fucking brain is firing on all damn cylinders about what she thinks she just saw. But I'm not guilty. I didn't fucking do anything wrong, so I'm not about to act like I did.
I lift my hand and curl my finger, beckoning her. Her eyes squint as she crosses her arms, and I can't help but grin as she doesn't move.
I give a slight chuckle and then push up off the counter.
"Oh boy" I mutter to myself when she spins on her heel and throws her arms down from across her chest and makes her way out the front door of Danny's house.
"Where are you going?" I call to her as she walks through his front yard.
"Home" she answers without looking back.
"Not without my name tattooed on that fucking body you aren't, you little psycho." I say and hide my smirk when this word turns her around, halting her like I knew it would.
Her eyes are wild with anger , and again, I should be scared, but instead her rage turns me on and has my cock growing hard, and causing way more of a stir than Birdie had in the kitchen. My cock fucking knew who the hell it belonged to.
"Did you just call me a psycho?!" she screeches, her voice carrying inside the open door, people quieting as I walk to her in the middle of the yard.
"Yup." I say as I reach out and she jerks her body away.
I laugh and reach again, this time snatching her arm firmly.
"Let go of me you fucking -" I cut her off by picking her up, making her yelp as I toss her over my shoulder.
"Put me down Asher!" she yells as I turn, carrying her back inside gathering laughs and people hiding their amusement as the angry new girl in town curses and calls me every name in the book as I carry her through the house to the room I know Danny has set up as his at home tattoo studio.
I flick the lock on the door after slamming it shut and then set her down on tattooing table and she huffs.
"what the fuck are you angry about?" I ask her.
"I saw you!" she snaps.
I push apart her legs and stands between them.
"Saw me fucking what princess?" I ask and force her chin up.
I watch her nostrils flare, and hide my grin.
"Saw you fucking holding her, saw you fucking kissing on her." she says, trying to rip my hands from her face, but I don't allow it.
"Birdie is my friend. Always will be." I tell her and she inhales and breathes out an angry growl.
"We were simply making up. And I hugged her.....and kissed her on the head because she fucking told me that she knew it was over the second she saw me fucking look at you..." I tell her and watch her open her mouth to protest something, then pauses and her body relaxes just slightly.
"She did not." she says skeptically.
I nod. "She did. And I get that it's fucking weird for me to be friends with a girl I fucked for years before you...but try to understand that...I don't fucking lie Ari....and I never will....and definitely not to you." I tell her and she sighs.
"You make me fucking crazy." she says and looks up at me.
I smirk. "My little psycho." I say and she swats my arms from her, making my hands drop from her face and I laugh.
"I knew that was the one word that would get your crazy ass to stop walking the fuck away from me." I admit and she rolls her eyes.
With a knock at the door and Danny's voice on the other side , I kiss her softly and then pull back smiling and then walk to the door unlocking it and opening it.
"With all respect man.." Danny says. "Love you and all bro...but you can't be having makeup sex in here." he says and just his thumb down the hall. "But Kill's room is open and free, fucker doesnt mind shit." he says
I laugh and shake my head.
"No makeup sex being had." I assure him.
"You wanna do this?" Danny asks looking between us both and I turn my head to look at Ari and she nods with a smile.
"Yes, we do" I answer.