Brian

The whole drive to the party, Michelle was tugging at her blouse and her skirt in an attempt to make sure that she was all
straightened out and decent.

We had almost managed to leave for the party on time, but when Michelle walked down the stairs and into the foyer and I saw how
beautiful she looked I just couldn’t keep my hands off of her and apparently the feeling was mutual and we wound up having to get
dressed all over again.

I think our little detour before we left the house must have calmed us both down. We were both a little nervous about seeing
Hannah tonight, for two reasons; we were a little worried that she would still be mad at us for not being able to make it to the
appointment with her today, but we were also worried that something might have happened at the appointment. Michelle had
casually tossed into conversation over dinner that maybe everything wasn’t as perfect as we were hoping with the baby and
maybe that’s why Hannah was ignoring our calls and our text messages.

When we got to the party everything was in full swing. My parents greeted us almost the second we walked into the venue, and
then they pointed out where our table was and we made our way over. The band and their girls were all here. Zack and Meaghan,
Arin and Kimberley, Johnny and Lacey, and honestly I had half expected Matt to bring a date along with him tonight but he seemed
perfectly content laughing and joking around with Hannah across the table from Michelle and I.

Val was going to be here tonight, but that didn’t seem to be bothering Matt. They were grown-ups, and luckily their divorce was
nothing like when they broke up that one time in high school and they couldn’t stand to be anywhere near each other – but I think
that was only because they were still in love with one another and they still wanted to jump each other’s bones. It’s nothing like that
now, they aren’t still in love and they’re moving on with their lives.

As I watched Hannah and Matt – seemingly alone in their own world, I couldn’t help but realise that neither of them had even
noticed the arrival of Michelle and myself, but I wasn’t too bothered, watching the two of them made me happy. They had always
been like this, best friends, always making one another laugh and smile like nothing else, it was the best thing I could have hoped
for - the women in my life getting along with my best friends, my brothers, my band mates.

I also couldn’t help but notice that Hannah’s dress was a little tight on her new-found pregnant figure and she was showing a little
bit much to keep an older brother comfortable, but from what I could see, Matt wasn’t staring at her chest despite the fact that it
was practically right in his face, so that kept me happy enough.

I turned away from the two of them and picked up a conversation with Zack and Meaghan about some new releases Zack was
working on for Vengeance University. I don’t know how long I had been talking to the two of them about it before Hannah was
tugging at the back of my shirt collar and excusing the two of us from the table.

“Hannah,” I chuckled, trying to detach her from me so that we could walk normally “Hannah,” I repeated “What the hell is going
on?” I asked.

“I need to talk to you and your wife,” She answered quickly, grabbing Michelle from where she was standing at the bar talking to
her sister.

She dragged the two of us out of the main event room and into one of the corridors in the building where it was quiet and private
enough for the three of us to talk.

“What took you two so long to get here?” She snapped at the two of us, practically pinning us to the wall with her stare.

“Sweetheart,” Michelle said softly “Is everything alright?” She asked.

“No!” Hannah snapped again “Everything is far from alright and by both of your expressions the two of you were too busy fucking
to actually get here on time like I was hoping you would!”

“You ignored us all day, and now you’re getting mad at us?” I asked with a laugh, which probably wasn’t the best idea I’ve ever
had.

“Yes,” She sighed “Because I didn’t want to do this over the phone or in a text but I can’t keep it in for much longer, the two of you
have to know!”

“What’s wrong?” Michelle asked with a panicked tone in her voice “What’s wrong with the baby?”

Hannah didn’t say anything; she just opened her purse, reached inside and thrust a sonogram picture in front of us.

“What are we looking at here?” I asked after Michelle and I spent a few moments looking at it.

“Your children…” Hannah answered with a whisper, lifting her right hand to cover her mouth.

“What?” Michelle choked out, tears welling in her eyes and her throat clamping around her words.

“There’s-“ she stopped and cleared her throat “There isn’t just one baby in there, no, there’s – uh – three of them… triplets.”

~~~~

Matt

Brian Senior had given a beautiful speech about his wife and all of his children – bringing almost everyone in the room to tears.
Brian Junior, Brent, Hannah and MacKenna all hugged Brian Senior and Suzy and congratulated them on so many years together
before they gave them their presents.

Brian and Michelle were the next people on their feet, giving a speech. They thanked Brian Senior and Suzy for everything that
they had given them and done for them over the years, before they hauled Hannah to her feet and made the announcement about
the triplets. Everyone at the party – well, almost everyone, had known about the pregnancy and the fact that Hannah was carrying
Brian and Michelle’s child for them, but they were obviously very excited about the news of two more babies than they had
bargained for.

Ever since that announcement was made, Hannah hasn’t been left alone. She hasn’t been able to sit down for more than a couple
of minutes never mind long enough to finish her drink. People keep dragging her away for some conversation, a dance, a feel of
her stomach and Erin, Dale and I have been watching her as much as we possibly can. By the looks of it, she’s getting more and
more uncomfortable with every person who approaches her. The three of u drag her away from other party guests as much as
possible, but it’s getting more and more difficult.

“Why?” Hannah groaned dramatically as she dropped herself back into her chair “Why does being pregnant suddenly give
everyone permission to grope my stomach?” She asked, gesturing to her bump.

“I’m sorry, honey.” Erin cooed, resting her chin on Hannah’s shoulder “You wanna go home?”

“No,” She sighed, scratching the back of her left hand “It’s too early to leave, I just need to start having some fun before I blow my
brains out,”

“You wanna dance?” Dale asked “I was about to drag Erin out there, but I’ll happily drag you out instead,”

“No,” She laughed “You two go ahead, I’m going to go out and get some air I think,”

“I’ll come with you,” I insisted, jumping to my feet and holding out my arm for her.

She stood up carefully and linked her arm with mine before looking back at Erin and Dale.

“I’ll be back, and then I’ll come out there and dance,” She promised.

Silently, Hannah and I walked out of the building and around the back of the building. It took me a minute to realise where Hannah
was going – there was a small play park just across a little patch of grass and I knew how much Hannah loved to swing on the
swings.

“How are you holding up?” I asked as she unlinked her arm from mine and lowered herself onto the rubber seat of the swing while
she held onto the metal chains at either side of her.

“It’s a lot to handle,” She admitted “There’s a lot of people out here celebrating tonight, and they all seem to want to tell me that I’m
doing an amazing thing for my brother and Michelle, but… some of these people haven’t seen me since I was a kid and now
they’re groping all over my stomach like it’s some sort of right they have now,”

“Just wait,” I chuckled “I don’t want to put a downer on the whole pregnancy, but I remember what everyone was like with Val
when she was pregnant with Jack,”

I moved from leaning against the frame of the swing set and lowered myself onto the empty swing next to Hannah and started to
swing myself softly just as she was. I looked at her profile and saw the look of horror and remembrance etch its way onto her face.

“I remember,” She eventually chuckled, a breathy laugh “She seemed to love the attention though, but I guess that’s just Val,”

“Yeah,” I nodded.

“How are you, by the way?” She asked “Since you guys came back from tour months ago – we haven’t really had a chance to talk
about the hard-hitting things,”

“I’m alright,” I told her honestly, smiling and nodding at her as she turned her head to look at me “I’ve got my son, my friends, my
dog and an awesome house,”

“But I know you, Matt,” She sighed softly “You’ve always needed to have a woman in your life, and you two were together forever
– literally, and you expect me to believe that you’re perfectly fine already?” She asked “After only just getting divorced from the
only woman you’ve ever really been with?”

A slightly awkward silence fell over the two of us while I thought about how to word what I wanted to say without making myself
sound like a hopeless sap.

“It’s hard sometimes,” I admitted “Mainly at night, when I expect to have someone to cuddle into in the middle of the night or open
my eyes to see in the morning and she isn’t there… nobody’s there.”

Without saying anything, Hannah got off of her swing and stepped in front of me. She wordlessly wrapped her arms around my
neck, slipped her fingers into my long hair and pulled me against her in a comforting embrace.

I desperately tried to ignore the fact that her amazing breasts were right there, and I ignore the fact that my heart has started to
beat a little faster at the realisation that I’m so close to her. I ignore the fact that she’s holding me, comforting me and loving me,
because if it was anyone else I would have been making a move on her, but this isn’t just anyone. Hannah has been my best
friend since she was still in diapers and I was starting to have an interest in girls I was at school with. She’s Brian’s baby sister
and I’ve only ever loved her as my best friend, but being like this with her… it feels different, it feels right.

“Matt?” She whispered, causing me to pull away far enough to look up into her eyes.

“Hm?”

“Now would be a really good time to make a move…” She whispered, somehow even quieter than before.

I didn’t give myself the chance to overthink what I wanted to do, because as soon as the words were out of her mouth and the idea
had planted itself in my head, I knew that I wanted to do it. So, I slowly got to my feet and she had to take a quarter of a step
backwards to avoid us bashing heads, and now I was towering over her and looking down into her eyes, my hands stayed by my
sides while hers moved to my biceps to keep her balance. My eyes flickered from her eyes to her lips and back up again in time to
see her eyes moving from my lips to my eyes, too. My right hand lifted and cupped her jaw, my thumb gently rubbed across her
bottom lip before I started to lower my head towards hers. Just before I could close the gap myself, she slid her hands up my
chest, and draped them over my shoulders before she leaned up and closed the gap herself, pressing her soft lips ever so gently
against my own.

As soon as our lips made contact, we both let out soft moans at the same time which only made us smile into the kiss, but the
smiling stopped when she slid her hand to the nape of my neck and gently tugged on my hair and I couldn’t stop myself from
deepening the kiss. My tongue ran across her bottom lip, begging for entrance which she happily granted.

My right hand remained on her jaw while I lifted my left lifted and grabbed carefully at her hip – testing the waters. She moaned a
little again at the contact and leaned into my touch, pressing her whole body against mine.

Eventually, though, we had to break the kiss to breathe a little better. When we broke apart the slightest amount, we were both
panting and our lips were swollen but also immediately colder at the loss of contact. We looked into one another’s eyes, and in
under a second her eyes changed from lust-filled to dread-filled and she stepped away from me, her hands shooting up to her
mouth to cover is.

“Oh my-“ She muttered into her hand, cutting herself off “I’m so sorry,”

“Hannah-“

She quickly turned and started to run away from me as best as she could in her heels, and like a chump I just stood there, staring
at the back of her as she ran away from me, just leaving me in the middle of the children’s play park.

~~~~

Zack

What the fuck was wrong with me?

I’m here with my girlfriend, a woman I’m absolutely crazy about and yet I can’t keep my eyes off of someone else – one of my best
friends for that matter.

I was watching her out there on the dance floor with the guy I’m pretty sure she’s fucking. If they’re not already fucking then they
certainly want to and by the looks of it they’re about to do it out there in the middle of the dance floor if he doesn’t take her home
soon.

My horrible thoughts are interrupted when a breathless Hannah suddenly drops herself into the chair directly across the table from
me. I can’t really tell from the dim lighting in the room, but she seems to have a pink tint to her skin, her eyes are wet and her hair is
starting to fall loose. Something happened, and I’m about to lean over and ask her if she’s alright, before the music changes to ‘Do
You Love Me’ from Dirty Dancing and Jason Berry is suddenly grabbing her and dragging her onto the dance floor.

In a matter of seconds, every couple on the dance floor is grinding against one another and it looks exactly like the scene from
Dirty Dancing with the way they’re all draped over one another, bending, stretching, grinding, humping, bumping and whatever
else. Erin looks even sexier now than she did a second ago, only she’s dancing a lot more provocatively with Dale than she was
during the last song, and it’s killing me. I’ve been having thoughts about getting her alone since the second I saw her tonight. She
looks amazing in that short, red and white dress and I honestly can’t take it anymore.

“Babe,” I shout in Meaghan’s ear over the music “Why don’t you go and dance?” I ask.

“You don’t want to come up?” She asks, pouting at me a little.

“I need to talk to Erin about something, you can dance with her partner,” I wink at her playfully.

I know that it isn’t dangerous to suggest such a thing, Dale has only been so suggestive with Erin all night and I know the guy well
enough to know that he wouldn’t dare lay a finger on Meaghan in a way that he wasn’t supposed to.

As I rushed onto the dance floor ahead of Meaghan to grab Erin, Matt suddenly barged past me – muttering an apology as he
moved past, but I watched as he grabbed Hannah and removed her from Jason’s grasp and tugged her off of the dance floor. I
decided not to think anything of it and left them to it.

“Erin,” I spoke, tapping her rapidly on the shoulder. She turned around and looked over her shoulder at me “Can I talk to you for a
second?” I asked.

“Sure, Zack!” She chirped happily, before kissing Dale quickly and walking off of the dance floor.

She stopped by the table, but I gripped her arm and tugged her out of the room and into the corridor behind the party, down said
corridor and out of the emergency exit at the back so that we were outside.

“Zack, what the hell are-“

I cut her off my slamming her against the wall and crushing my lips against hers in a bruising kiss. I felt her return the kiss almost
instantly, and it was hot, wet and open mouthed all at the same time. This was what I had wanted to do the second I saw her hours
ago, but at least I was finally doing it now.

I was grabbing her hips and she was pulling my hair while we moaned into one another’s mouths.

“Zack,” She panted, gently shoving me to get me to stop, and as much as I didn’t want to stop – I forced myself to.

We were both panting heavily when we pulled away.

“What?” I asked, a little impatiently.

“What the fuck is this?” She almost snapped, but her lust-filled gaze that she was pinning me with didn’t falter in the slightest.

“I’m doing something I’ve been dying to do to you all night,” I informed her “I’m going to fucking ravage you, just the way you
deserve,”

Notes

So, this isn't all that long but I think it's pretty powerful and packed with dramatic happenings.

Hopefully I'll have even more for you tomorrow!
Enjoy!

~ LMV