His husky deep voice danced along my earlobe as he lowly said, "You better like me better."

"No. I do not." I deadpanned as I removed a piece of fallen hair from my face.

There was no way of getting out of this. I could no longer convince anyone, even myself, that I did not want Stone.

I could no longer deny that a part of me had always wanted him since our very first encounter. A large part of me wanted him.

I changed tactics and pointed to the other side of the wooden table "Why are we not talking about how Lana's first crush was Lightening McQueen? That is way worse than mine."

Brennan cocked his head to Lana with a risen eyebrow "Lightening McQueen? As in the car?"

She answered him with a blush covering her cheeks "I was like five."

"That is cute." He replied, "I am just upset you did not give me a nickname that secretly meant you had the hots for me like Little Ella over there did with Stone."

When I saw that Mr and Mrs Armstrong were having a conversation on their own and not tuning in to ours, I ripped a bit of bread from my hamburger and threw it at Brennan.

Mrs Armstrong started to take us down memory lane as she started to tell the two boys about us. That left me and Lana embarrassed and wanting to run away from the table.

Lana then decided to join in "Do you remember that time in middle school when I was changing for gym and the fire alarm went off?"

I mouthed to her as I knew exactly what she was going to say, "Shut up."

"What happened?" Brennan asked with a laugh.

"I could not find my jeans, so I had to leave the building in only my underwear. I was so humiliated, and I was crying hysterically." She explained while laughing back at the story "So guess what Ella did?"

I pleaded "Please do not tell them. It was so embarrassing."

The blonde traitor continued with her story "Ella stripped off her jeans and walked down the corridor in her underwear with me so we could share the humiliation. She did not want me to be alone,”

Everyone let out a laugh and I hid my face behind Charlie's back.

"I knew then that Ella was going to be my best friend forever." Lana added.

I smiled and told her honestly "I would do it again."

My words made Stone narrow his eyes at the side of my head and deeply grumble "No. You will not."

Charlie started to fidget on my lap as faced away from his food and asked "Drizzy, can you take me to the toilet?"

"I thought you could go yourself now." I whispered back, hoping that he just meant that I had to walk him to the toilet.