My Stepbrother-Too Hot To Handle

DABBY:

I was startled when I watched Damien’s dad make his way into the house, because there was no way that I could ever have expected to see him there. My mind darted to Mum immediately, and disappointment filled my heart that she must have gone through her threat.

Watching him and Mason’s Mum talk back at one another, made me realize that Mrs. Carr had been keeping too much for the past years. It made me understand why Damien had always been wary of his dad, and why he always thought he wasn’t a good man.

‘Why was he desperately trying to hide him from the only family he had from his mother’s family?’

He threatened to have Mrs. Carr locked up if we didn’t follow him back home, and we had no choice but to do that because Damien didn’t want any problem for his Aunt. We were both mute throughout the journey back home, while I pondered endlessly on whom it could be that exposed us.

Damien’s dad seized the car keys the moment we got home, and told us that we should drop out phones too after grounding us. I dropped mine quickly to avoid any more problems with him, but Damien refused to drop his own which caused us even more trouble.

He also went as far as threatening his father that he would make sure he got arrested if he hit any of us, which caused Mr. Anderson to break everything he had in sight with anger. It terrified me to see him like that, and I was so scared because I have never seen my stepfather’s true colors. I couldn’t breathe.

He stormed out of the house angrily and I heaved a sigh of fearful relief, which made me slump onto the chair and take a peaceful break. Damien sat beside me to comfort me from whatever I was feeling, and Mum entered the house shortly after the entire drama had taken place.

She asked to know why everywhere was messy, and there was no answer which she didn’t push further. She probably realized what probably happened in the room, but I was furious that she went ahead to tell Damien’s father what I said she shouldn’t.

“Mum. I would like to see you. Personally,” I said to her in a very stern voice, and she didn’t even get angry and followed me. I could not imagine why she would do that to Damien because of our little fling.

“Mum, how could you do that? After I already said that Damien’s dad shouldn’t find out about his Aunt. Why would you do that?!” I didn’t wait for her to even close the door, before I faced her with an instant question. I couldn’t imagine why she would do that.

“I didn’t mean to tell, honey. I came back home after I left this morning, and found out that you both had gone out together again. I was really pissed. I got the phone and called the numbers I had saved from the food delivery I ordered. Damien’s father was behind me when I called to ask if that was Damien’s aunt, Adele on the line…….”

“And you just showed him to her house? You couldn’t have thought of a lie or something the way you would usually do if it involved me?” I asked her in a very mean voice, and she looked hurt by my words even though it was entirely true. I just couldn’t understand why we have been having so many differences lately.

‘I guess my days of being a gentle daughter were over.’

“What do you mean by that? Why are you talking to your Mum because of an ordinary guy? What if his Dad found out about his Aunt? Is it bad?” Mum tried to defend herself when I think she intentionally did what I asked her not to, because I was not listening to her. I mean I have been an obedient daughter all my life.

“Well, you got what you wanted even if you don’t know how the past had been. Fine. Damien’s car key is seized and my phone is too. He said we are grounded till the end of exams,” I recounted everything Mr. Anderson said to us with a frown, because I really didn’t know how to take my anger to the extreme, “Apparently, he forced Damien’s mum to forgo her parental rights over her son. I am just telling you so that you know the kind of man you are married to, before telling him more things, thinking that it would help.”

When I was done saying my mind, I figured out that Mum didn’t have anything to say and left her sight minutes later. I went to the kitchen to cook something because it was a way that I could wade off my anger, and also placate our hungry stomachs since we were not able to eat at Mrs. Carr’s house.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

I wanted to call Mason to ask if everything was fine with them, but soon realized that my phone had been taken away from me. I figured out that Damien might need his space away from me due to what he heard his Aunt say, but he called me to come and have dinner together with him.

We talked about many things apart from what had happened within the last few hours of our lives, and worked together till it was midnight before I returned to my room. It was Monday morning already, and the first day of our final examinations.

I was thinking we would have to take the bus because Damien didn’t have his car anymore, but someone was waiting for us in front of the house already with a car that would take us to school.

Turns out that he was designated to arrive early to take us to school, and also to be at the park waiting at closing hours to take us back home instantly.

Damien wasn’t having it and left for school in a cab purposely to rebel against his dad, and Mr. Anderson had his card frozen before the end of the day. I talked to Mason in school during lunch hours, and he told me that his mother was doing fine.

We talked about how scary Damien’s father was, and he told me more things that his mother said he had done in the past. It made me feel so sorry for Damien to have had quite a rough childhood with a violent father and a weak mother.

Exams weren’t in the same mood in our grade, because most people in our grade didn’t have their minds invested in them. All they had their minds on was prom, and it was the major talk of the school. Some parties were being thrown by our classmates, to celebrate that we were going to be done with high school soon.

The second day was the same at home, and it felt like I and Damien were the only ones left by ourselves. Mum got my phone back from her husband and dropped it on the table for me, because we were probably not still in the right state to talk to one another.

I spent my afternoon reading and monitoring my college applications, and spent my nights helping Damien to check out his game. He bought some more things that he felt we needed through delivery services since we couldn’t go out, and he told me he had a spare credit card even if his Dad froze the ones with him.

Mum and I reconciled after she apologized for whatever she had done on the fourth day, and she tried hard not to talk about me and Damien because she knew it would cause problems. When she asked if we were doing fine, I told her that we were not doing what she thought we were doing.

The days went like that with Damien trying every best to avoid his father, and I sure was doing the same because I couldn’t cope with a one-on-one meeting with him. I also didn’t trust Mum too.

She could drop the news to him at any time, that Damien and I had something going on between us.

And he probably found out. Himself.