Briley sat on the couch, watching TV. It had been about six months since he had been released and he himself knew he wasn't taking it very well. Day after day he promised he would get off his butt and maybe get a new job, but every day he fell deeper and deeper into depression and saw no good reason to leave the house. Adriana, one of his best friends, tried to help him, but she gave up a few months ago. Now, the only time she came to him was to cry with him. She had been having relationship problems lately and Briley was the only guy who could cheer her up. He had no problem with it, since he would admit that he liked her, but he was tired of hearing that she and Dolph were arguing. Yes, Dolph, like his older brother. Briley knew that Dolph was a good person when it came to women, but she wondered why, when he was the person she loved so deeply, he had to act like an asshole. Any normal person wouldn't have hesitated to try to take her away from Dolph, but Briley would never have done that to her brother. But that didn't mean he hadn't thought about it before. But after thinking long and hard about it, he decided not to do it, knowing that it would lead to terrible consequences. His mind went to the first time he met Adriana, only to remind himself that Dolph had been the one who had won her over in the first place, and that he needed to keep himself in check. - flashback -Ryan sat at the dining table, eagerly awaiting the arrival of Nick and his girlfriend. He had never seen her before, but that didn't matter. His mother refused to serve dinner unless Nick was home, and he was starving. He desperately needed to eat, otherwise he would lose his mind. "Mom, just because Nick doesn't want to... middle of paper... fun, because that's exactly what Ryan was planning to do." Yes, I decided when I was ten when one of my friends was sad and I told her some jokes to brighten her day. The feeling was incredible, so I decided I wanted to do this for the rest of my life." Ryan's eyes remained fixed on her as she spoke, and they remained there for a long time afterward. Nick noticed him staring at her, and he didn't like it." Ryan," she said, turning him around, "keep your eyes on the food." She glared at him, but then remembered that she was Nick's girlfriend, not his. He didn't care if it was the other way around, though. - end flashback -Those feelings were still there, but he didn't show it as much Now he was twenty-nine, so he knew how to handle it a lot better than before, too, because he would probably think he was a pervert.