Brothers - Part 4

I was trembling all over. My body was in full flight or fight mode. It was meant to have been a fun night, a chance for the brothers to reconcile and for me to get to know Damien a bit better. Looking up at him now I felt like he was the last person on earth I wanted to know! Even though he wasn’t as tall as his brother he towered over me. He was huge. Suddenly, Shaun stood up and grabbed my shoulders, shoving me aside roughly. ‘What the fuck is wrong with you man’ he yelled at his brother. ‘With me?’ Damien replied incredulously. ‘You’re the one who’s a big fucking man trying to force yourself onto someone who doesn’t want you! She said no you fucking loser! I heard her’. I turned to look at Shaun and a big smile crept over his face. ‘Nah bro, she only says that, she fucking wanted it’. ‘Didn’t you babe?’ he said, looking straight at me.

My cheeks flamed again, I was torn between defending my boyfriend and telling the truth. I started fidgeting uncomfortably, getting increasingly anxious about being trapped in this small space with these two unpredictable brothers. I bit my lip and looked at the floor, wishing it would swallow me up. ‘I’m just going to get a drink’ I mumbled. I started to move and then Damien sidestepped, blocking my path. ‘Oh no little one’ he said shaking his head, ‘answer him’. ‘Look’, I stuttered, ‘this was all just a silly mistake, I brought Shaun in here for some fun and we just had different things in mind’. ‘So you wanted him to shove your face on his cock’ Damien jeered. ‘Well?’ Shaun reached out and slapped me on the arse, making me jump. ‘Of course she did’ he replied on my behalf. ‘She fucking can’t get enough of it. Can you …..’.

Thwack. He never got to finish his sentence. Damien had just lashed out and knocked Shaun to the ground with one punch. I’d never seen anything like it. ‘Oh my god’ I screamed. ‘What the fuck have you done’ I screamed at Damien as I scrambled down to help Shaun. He was cowering on the floor, his cheek opened up and the beginnings of a massive black eye developing. Blood was oozing out of the wound and he was struggling to get his balance and stand back up again. ‘You fucking stay down cunt’ Damien angrily told his brother. ‘Or I’ll hit you again and you won’t get back up’. ‘Don’t you dare’ I screamed. ‘He’s your brother!’. Damien eyeballed me, glared at me and then snorted ‘he’s a womanising cock sucker who wouldn’t know how to treat a dog!’

I felt like I was missing a whole chunk of information here. Damien’s response seemed completely exaggerated and out of character even for him. Shaun, well Shaun’s behaviour tonight was completely foreign to me and they way he had just spoken about me to his brother was disgusting. I was surprised and hurt. I mean I had often wished he would take the lead more sexually, and I definitely would like things to be a little more unpredictable and animalistic sometimes. But he pushed way past that with his behaviour this night. ‘Actually’, I announced, my voice shaking, ‘I have no idea what’s got into both of you tonight, but I do know that I don’t want to be around either of you’. I might be short of stature but I am a feisty, fiery woman when pushed and these guys had tipped me over the edge. ‘Babe …..’ Shaun mumbled, still holding onto his bloodied cheek. ‘I don’t know what got into me’. Damien laughed and had an incredulous look on his face. ‘Really little brother’? ‘You have no fucking idea what got into you’?

I turned and looked at Shaun and was surprised to see he was looking very sheepish. I’m very much an instinctual person and had never had any cause to doubt him or be suspicious of him. I mean he could be a bit obsessive about his appearance (and mine) and sometimes critical of others (well mostly me), but basically he was a good guy. Shaun looked up at me and asked me to help him up. ‘Let’s get out of here’ he muttered. I reached down to grab his arm and I swear I heard Damien growl like an animal. I turned around in surprise at the noise to see Damien heading around the corner, back to the party. ‘Actually’ Shaun added, now fully upright but leaning against the wall, ‘I’d better go and find a mirror and check out the damage’.

We walked back into the party and I rolled my eyes as I spotted Damien once more in charge of the keg. He had a group of girls around him, all of them gazing up at him like he was some type of god. ‘Ha’ I sneered to myself, ‘fucked up god of thunder and lightning’ then got the giggles as I added a Bohemian Rhapsody lyric ‘very, very frightening’. He was though. It’s like when I was around him electrical charges crackled between us. I’ve never been hated by anyone like this. Just like Thor of old, I imagined Damien taking great satisfaction in crushing me with his hammer. Getting me out of his family’s life for good. ‘Hey’ a confused voice interjected, ‘what the fuck happened to Shaun’? Oh Shaun. Fuck, I’d just forgotten my boyfriend momentarily. My head whipped away from Damien and his keg harem around to see Vanja looking at me quizzically. I was just about to answer her when Shaun blurted out ‘yeah nothing to worry about, I just slipped and fell. Bumped my head’.

I looked at Shaun incredulously. A fall? Yeah right, after his brother dropped him to the ground with one punch. Was he trying to be brave? Was he embarrassed? He could press charges against Damien for that assault. I shook my head. ‘Brothers’ I thought to myself frustratedly. ‘Come here Shaun’, Vanja said as she grabbed hold of him, ‘we’ll go and check that gash in the bathroom’. ‘You’ she almost shouted at me, ‘you’re as pale as a ghost’. ‘Go in the kitchen and grab yourself something to eat and maybe make yourself a hot chocolate or something’. I smiled at my capable friend. She was a rough diamond. She came across as this brash, cheeky, bossy cow but she was an amazing, caring person who, luckily for my boyfriend, also happened to be a nurse. I was grateful for her taking Shaun away actually, I needed some time to think about what had just happened. I headed for the kitchen and just as I was about to go in I felt an incredible prickling sensation on the back of my neck. I turned to scan the room and jumped as there, standing just a metre or so away with his big arms crossed, was Damien. If I believed in auras then his would have been swirling black right then. He looked very, very angry and he was glaring at me, his eyes fixed and focused on mine.His body language was menacing and his presence made me feel like all the air had been sucked out of the room. Moving towards me he mouthed ‘you, in there’ (pointing at the kitchen), ‘now’.

To be continued. Ms Flirt xxx