More than a game episode 13

More than a game
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By Kemmy B. Gabriel (BB)
Book thirteen
Iris’s standpoint
I laughed as Hailey narrated the story of how she dealt with her first boyfriend when she caught him cheating, it was hilarious. Lee was busy playing a game in her phone as we walked to the VIP room. I knew Hailey was trying to help me feel comfortable, the dress I was wearing was putting me on edge again, it felt like I was going to die so she was telling me stories to make me feel better. I admit, I look beautiful but still, it scares me. We walked arm in arm, swaying our h¡ps and laughing. My eyes averted to the room, the first person I saw standing and gaping at me was Hans. I instantly jumped behind Hailey with fear, shaking because he was looking at me like I was a monster.
‘Why are you hiding?’ Hailey asked, looking over her shoulder.
‘He hates me, look at his eyes?’
‘Who? Hans?’ She looked at Hans and hissed, his mouth was open. ‘That isn’t the look of hate, he is stunned by how gorgeous you look.’
‘That’s a lie,’ I said shakily. ‘He’s going to snob me,’ I cried, burying my face into her back. She started laughing, the sound echoing into my ears and vibrating through her body.
‘Snap out of it you idiot!’ Lee shouted, Hans scre-med, I looked up immediately and saw Hans holding his head and glaring at Lee.
‘What was that for?!’ Lee muttered something to him, his eyes w¡dened and looked at me again. He smiled brightly and then grinned.
‘Wow!’ He exclaimed and dragged a long whistle, I blushed and buried my face in Hailey’s back again. I jumped away from Hailey when I felt hot breath on my neck, and like he was expecting it, he caught me by my wa-ist instantly. My cheeks was burning hot, really really hot. I looked at everywhere but his eyes, trying not to think about our proximity or his heart flipping cologne. He pressed his l-ips to my ear again, reminding me of the day at the salon. ‘Stop acting so jumpy, people are watching,’
I felt sad, he only cared about me acting my part well. ‘Just like everyone else, he doesn’t care about you, once he is done with you, you’ll be yesterday’s story.’
‘Don’t listen to her Iris, ignore Joe and her cynicism,’ Sweet said softly. I forced a smile to my l-ips and pushed myself away from him, straightening my short gown.
‘Don’t touch me, you are under probation…’
‘Pro…what?!’ He shouted, acting along. ‘I thought you cancelled it!’
Oh, he’s good.
‘No, I put it on to be continued,’ he stared at me like he was really dumbfounded.
‘You have got to be kidding me! You want me to stay away from you after the stunt you pulled at the game and what you are wearing now? Are you insane? I can’t!’
‘Stop shouting,’ I pushed him out of the way and walked to the guys. ‘Hey boys!’
‘Iris!’ They shouted cheerfully. ‘Welcome!’
‘Can I sit?’
‘Yes, sit with me,’ Jet said sharply, stretching his hand out to pull me.
‘No,’ Spencer swat his hand. ‘She is to sit with me,’
‘No, me,’ Riley protested.
‘Are you all going having a f-cking brain virus? Doesn’t she have a boyfriend to sit with?’ Jonathan asked frowningly.
‘Please remind them,’ Hans said playfully, coming behind me. I stepped away from him, unintentionally going closer to Jet who pulled me in immediately. He placed me between him and Spencer, they were both sitting too close. ‘Move,’ Hans commanded. They pouted at him but didn’t move.
‘You two, get lost, you are too close,’ I growled. Them sitting so close was irritating me. That’s funny, Hans is the only guy that don’t irritate me. They both moved over to create space for Hans. I smiled as Hans sat beside me, his glaring eyes on Spencer. ‘Hans,’ I nudged his side. He averted his gaze to me. ‘Good game out there, you did good.’
‘Did good,’ he snorted. ‘You and these witches almost made us fail,’ he glared at his sisters who smiled innocently. Hailey was sitting close to Silvia who sat next to Riley and Lee was suffocating Johnny’s space. She was hugging him so tight the poor boy’s face was turning pink. Although, I suspect the pinkness is a result of shyness or what Lee was wearing.
Lee and Hailey might be identical, but Lee is prettiest and s€×ier in a way. Her body was much more slender and fit to call a model, very fit. Okay, didn’t she say she was one? Anyways, she was s€×y. Lee wore a shiny velvet dress, one that accentuated her thin wa-ist and small curves, made her beautiful skin standout in the dark green dress that stopped at a tempting length. The dress was practically sleeveless with a plunging florid neckline and ruffled armless hands. Like most times, she wasn’t wearing much makeup and her hair was simply put in ringlet curls. Hailey went for a red tube skirt and black tie front tube top, she wore a black slingbacks wedges. Her neck was adored with our friendsh¡p necklace, just like Lee and me. I felt so proud seeing it there. I still had Hans’ hairband and bracelet, they weren’t going anywhere.
‘What were you all thinking out there? You could have cost us the game.’ Hans snapped at them.
‘Hailey,’ Lee called with a jesting smile. ‘Where we thinking?’
‘No my dear, we weren’t.’
Lee looked at Hans and blinked innocently. ‘There, we weren’t thinking.’
‘You and the other cheerleaders ruined our night,’
‘The night is still young you gumweed,’ Lee cursed.
‘And, do you really wanna tell us that none of you enjoyed the show?’ Hailey asked, smiling slyly as she looked at each and everyone of them. They all started muttering while Hans looked at me.
‘You really look beautiful,’ he mouthed. ‘No jokes, you look stunning in black and in that cheerleader uniform but do me a favor and wear leggings or hose next time, please?’ He pleaded out loud but in a whisper.
I giggled and innocently rolled my curl into in my finger, swaying myself on the chair. ‘And if I say no?’ I asked, battering my lashes at him. He smirked and leaned closer, making me back up a little. My heart flipped with excitement, my body fluttering with a little fear.
‘Then get ready to have your sense k-ssed out of you,’ he whispered. I wanted to shut up but something in me wanted to dare and be naughty. I placed my hands behind me, leaning on it with a challengingly smile.
‘Is that all you can do, pretty boy?’ He chuckled, a very dark chuckle. My body tingled from how dark his chuckle was, the tingle running through every single part of my body.
‘You want me to do more, angel?’ I tilted my head and blinked cutely.
‘If you have the balls to,’ Jet who was behind me burst into laughter, he was eavesdropping on us. Hans rolled his eyes and sat up straight. I looked around and noticed everyone was looking at us. I bit my l-ips sheepishly, sitting up straight.
‘Maybe you guys can take your flirting somewhere else, watching those two is enough to torture the single ones.’ Riley grumbled, glaring at a cheerleader and one of the football player k-ssing. Lee stood up with a glass.
‘Cheers, to Johnny and Iris, welcome to the family.’
‘How can you cheer without everyone not holding their drinks?’ Hailey scoffed.
‘Then you all drink invisible drinks, now cheers.’
‘No,’
‘Hailey, you have started again, I wasn’t talking to you this time and yet you are looking for my trouble again. Hans, Johnny, warn her.’
‘Let them warn me? What can they do? Beat me? You are very stupid Lee, sit down and let people with brains talk.’
‘So when counting smart people, you think you would be added?’ Lee scoffed. ‘My dear, you are more suitable for world dumbest person.’
‘So says the girl who can’t decide what color of shoes to wear,’
‘You with the great mind to choose, how have that helped your life? Zero percent.’
‘It has,’ Hailey said defensively.
‘Really, name ten?’
‘It makes me look like a normal human being, I don’t look like a clown who escaped from rehab…’
‘Are you seriously answering that?’ Hans chuckled.
‘Who called you?’ Hailey asked, averting the war to Hans.
‘Ask him,’ Lee said. ‘When geniuses are speaking, dodo brains swallow their tongues.’
‘Dodo?’ Hans gasped. ‘You have a dodo brain?’
‘Not me, you,’
‘Okay, you,’ Hans said with a nod.
‘Not me, you, you Hans, you.’
‘Who’s Hans?’ Hans asked, feigning dumbness. Lee stomped her foot childishly.
‘You don’t get to annoy me, that is my job!’
‘Oh, so you admit that you are annoying,’ Hans said with a mischievous smirk.
‘I didn’t say that,’ Lee said distraughtly.
‘Okay you meant to say you are the annoying little sister of Hans the smart god?’
‘Yes… No, stop confusing me!’
‘Doesn’t that mean you are a dunce because only dunces get confuse?’
‘Hailey, Hans is bullying me again!’ Lee shouted, her eyes welling up with tears. Lee was very good at badmouthing but Hans was the only one that could counter her.
Hailey threw a empty cup at Hans, he caught it easily. ‘You call that a throw? My monkeys can toss better than you.’
‘Hans, stop bullying my sister or I’ll break your head with this bottle.’ Hailey said threateningly, lifting up a bottle.
‘Smash his head with that expensive wine? Hailey are you mad?’ Lee asked huffily.
‘I’m trying to defend you!’
‘Is that how to defend? When I was your age, I could defend my siblings better than you are doing right now.’
‘You are my age you nonentity!’
‘Who say? I’m older than you by ten years,’ Lee said snootily.
‘Older? And you are here with us and not married off to some baldheaded biscuit brain,’ Hailey scorned.
‘Take that back Hailey! My future husband won’t have a biscuit brain, his brain ought to be made of pixie dusts and fries…’
‘Fries?’ Johnny asked with a twisted look.
‘What? I can get hungry sometimes,’
‘So let me get this straight,’ Johnny shifted away from her. ‘You will eat your husband’s brain if it’s made of bloody fries?’
‘Yup!’
‘First of all, that will never happen, not in a f-cking million years. Second of all, fries, really Lee? Third of all, who will sit down and let you eat their shit head?’ Is it me or does Johnny swear a lot?
‘He doesn’t have to know, I will eat it at night.’ Lee said without a smile.
‘And she said I don’t have sense,’ Hailey said jestingly.
‘Oh you don’t,’ Lee looked at her. ‘You are so dumb dumb is ashamed to look at your face.’
‘Here we go again,’ Hans sighed. He took my hand. ‘Let’s get out of here Iris.’
‘To do what?’
‘Drink, dance, anything far away from them.’ He inclined his head to his sisters.
‘If you all want to have a peaceful and enjoyable time, separate them.’ I said to Johnny. Johnny stood up and took Lee’s hand.
‘Come on Rainbow Ruby, let’s dance.’
‘Rainbow.’ Lee squealed. ‘I love rainbow!’
‘Only senseless people will love rainbow,’
‘Like you are anywhere close to brains!’ Lee shouted back. Johnny dragged her away while they kept throwing insults at each other. Hailey stood up to follow them and continue the fight.
‘Hailey, let’s dance,’ Silvia said quickly, jumping in front of her.
‘I don’t want to dance, I want to fight,’ Jet stood up with a laugh and rushed to Hailey.
‘Okay mama, let’s dance,’ he dragged her to the other side of the dance floor, far away from Lee and Johnny. Hans pulled me up and led me to the bar. He pulled out a chair for me.
‘Thank you,’ I said before sitting on it. Hans sat too and snapped his fingers at the barman.
‘Scoot some drinks over for me, would you?’ The barman smiled at him, like he knew him. ‘Fine, please, I said it.’
‘Any other specific drinks for the lady?’
‘Something strong but not strong enough to delete her senses,’
‘Can I just get a club soda?’ I asked with wide eyes. ‘I can’t take alcohol.’
‘Have you ever?’ He arched a brow at me.
‘Well no but…’
‘First time for everything then,’ he whistled at the barman who nodded. The man turned to his large wall of drinks.
‘I can’t take it Hans, if I get drunk, I might… I won’t have control over Joe and…’
‘Hey,’ he said softly, placing his hand on mine. ‘Don’t be afraid, I am here…’
‘You don’t understand,’
‘Iris, do you trust me?’
‘No,’ I said sharply. ‘I don’t trust you.’ He slipped his hand away from mine with a chuckle.
‘You are still going to drink it,’
‘But…’
‘Remember what I said? You get to do whatever I say.’
‘But…’
‘Shhh,’ he pressed his index finger against my lip. I sighed and looked at the barman who dropped two glasses of different drinks.
‘Hey, where’s Phoenix? That crazy rascal?’ He asked.
‘We didn’t tell him we were coming…’
‘Phoenix has arrived!!!!’ Hans whimpered and bang his head on the counter.
‘Nevermind,’ he whimpered again. I laughed and looked at Phoenix who was shouting at the top of his voice, slapping the heads of everyone seated. ‘Iris, drink up,’ I turned my head over to Hans.
Looking at him closer, Hans was quite handsome with his ivory like skin that contrasted his brilliant white smile, his light black hair scintillating under the light, making it softness prominent. He flashed me a charming smile as he handed me the glass, assuring me that nothing would ever go wrong with him by my side. I looked at Violet and Joe who were glaring at me, warning me not to take it. I looked back at Hans, my hands trembling with fear as my throat suddenly became parch. I could feel my body heating up, my heart beginning to palpitate and body temperature rising along with the pounding in my head.
‘I can’t,’ I stood up to run, this was a bad idea. Hans’ hand caught mine, pulling me back but to his body. He entwined our fingers, just like yesterday, his touch set me alight in,side, sending tingles through my body. He lifted me up and carried me into his laps, holding me down so I won’t run. ‘Let go of me Hans! I can’t, Joe w…’ My eyes w¡dened as he slammed his l-ips on mine.
‘Pull away Iris!!!’ Violet shouted. He swiped his hand over my eyes, closing it.
Immediately my eyes closed, it was like I was I couldn’t hear a sound again, all the music, chattering, Phoenix shouting, it all droned out. All I could see in my eyes was his face, all I could hear was my heartbeat thumping in my ears. He bit my bottom lip, nibbling on it and sending a shiver through my body. I mo-ned into his mouth, parting my l-ips for him to deepen the k-ss. I wasn’t sure how I was going to k-ss him, but I let the expert take the lead, moving my l-ips and tongue the exact way he did. My heart was hammering hærd and faster against my chest, any more speed and I would pass out. His hands which was around my wa-ist lowered down a little, his palms clamped my butt cheeks, causing me to squeak in shock. I mo-ned at the rough way he held it, it was exciting. He squeezed a cheek tighter, making me purr into his mouth. I was becoming breathless, but I still couldn’t let go of him. Like he knew I needed to breathe, he made to pull away. I whimpered, holding on to his cheeks to stop him from taking his honey coat tongue from me. He chuckled, gave my tongue a little bite before pulling away.
‘Whoa,’ I breathe, looking down to avoid him seeing my blush, he did anyways because he chuckled again. I raised my eyes again, looking at his now swollen pink l-ips and then trailed my eyes up to his impeccably carved brows. Hans was extraordinarily s€×y and I was just noticing it. The k-ss was amazing!
He brushed his thumb on my upper lip, smiling as he captivated me with his rifle green eyes, locked my senses in a box only he had the key to. Still holding my eyes, he drank a mouthful of drink and k-ssed me again, transferring the liquid into my mouth. I more than happily gulped it all down, the action seeming s€×ier by the minute. It was either Hans had magical powers, or I was very stupid. I go for both, it felt so right. The drink was sweet and harsh, burning down my chest and eliciting the w¡deness of the fluttering butterflies in my stomach. He repeated that until every single drop of the burning liquid was in my stomach. Every single gulp spread the fire allover my body, exciting me like I had never been before. By the time he was done k-ssing me, my head was in cloud nine, planet plutoniumy platonism… Huh?
‘Hans,’ I giggled. ‘The world is round,’
‘And triangle,’ he said chucklingly. ‘Doctor Gabriel was right,’ he smiled. ‘Making you love me would make it easier,’
‘What’s easy?’ I asked dumbly, I couldn’t comprehend what he was saying. I looked at my dress and back at him with a wide grin. ‘I look s€×y, do I look s€×y Hans?’
‘Absolutely,’ he said chirpily, standing me back on my feet. He stood up too, downed his own glass of whatever that is and then pulled me to his chest.
‘Hans,’ I whispered, looking at Joe, her head was sewed to Violet’s. I clung to the collar of his shirt in fear. ‘Hans,’ I cried.
‘Iris, you are quavering, what are you seeing?’
‘Iris, come here!’ Joe and Violet commanded. ‘Let’s go…’ I locked my hands around Hans’ wa-ist, burying my face into his chest.
‘They are scaring me, Violet hates me now because I’m black,’
‘Listen Iris,’ he whispered into my ear. ‘Violet might hate you, but I don’t, ignore them.’ The world was spinning, mother’s angry voice shouting in my head. My eyes were closed, memories of how she yelled and moved away from me whenever I wanted to touch her torturing me.
“Go away Iris! Because of you, your worthless bastard of a father took my precious Violet away from me!”
“Don’t touch me Iris!”
“How dare you leave the basement without permission! Madeline! Madeline! How did she get out of her room?! Come get this thing away from me?!”
“Iris just die!!!”
‘God,’ I cried, drenching Hans’ shirt with my tears. ‘She hates me, mom chose death over me.’
‘Yes, and that is because she and everyone else never liked you. Do you really think holding on to him would assure you of love? No, it has never and will never change a thing. We both know you deserve to die, die Iris, die!’
‘No!’ I scre-med, holding on to Hans tighter. The world was still spinning, Violet and Joe were still shouting.
‘Violet, your mother wants you dead, die!’
‘Your father never liked you Iris, die!’
‘Stop it!!!’ I hollered. ‘Just stop it!’
‘Everyone would see how crazy you are now,’ Violet said in a singsong. ‘Guess how you will be treated from now on…’
‘Hans, Hailey or Lee can’t protect you, no one ever have, no one ever will.’
‘Iris snap out of it!!!!’ I gasped and opened my eyes, it instantly founded Hans’. He looked at me agitatedly, his eyes glistening with tears. ‘Don’t listen to them, I won’t ever leave you, remember this?’ He raised my hand which had the bracelet. ‘I won’t leave Iris, please don’t let…’
‘Don’t let him lie to you Iris, he will.’
‘Listen,’ he cupped my cheeks as I cried. ‘I’m not going anywhere, I promise. Please?’
‘Please, don’t ever leave me too, Violet hates me now, everyone hates me…’
‘I don’t hate you Iris, if I did, I wouldn’t be holding onto you so tight, I love you so much Iris, as a sister, as a friend, and as more. Don’t let them get into your head, remember my bracelet? My hairband? Hailey’s trinket? Don’t forget it. Is that clear?’
‘Mom…’
‘Shut the f-ck up Iris! Listen to no one else but me because I am real and they are not, okay?’
‘Everyone have seen me, they will hate me,’
‘Look around,’ I blinked fast and looked around, no one was there. ‘Immediately I noticed it, I pulled you here.’
‘Where are we?’ I could hear the loud music and Lee’s voice from somewhere, the heavy sound bouncing on the wall and shaking the wh0le building.
‘It’s a private lounge, right behind the bar. Do you want to go home?’
‘If I go, you’ll leave me.’
‘I won’t,’
‘You will,’ I sobbed.
‘Okay let’s dance for a little while, then you will sleep at my place, I’m sure Hailey and Lee won’t mind you sharing their bed.’
‘You sure?’
‘Your makeup is ruined, stay here, I’ll get Hailey…’
‘No!’ I scre-med, practically jumping on him and wrapping my legs around him so he wouldn’t leave. ‘Don’t leave!’
‘Hold on to the bracelet and necklace, you’ll be fine,’ I looked into his eyes like he was the biggest liar in the world. ‘Trust me,’
‘You will come back, right?’
‘One minute,’ I slipped down, dropped my legs back on the floor. He dropped me on the deep blue couch in the lounge, me still looking at him suspiciously. ‘Iris,’ he chuckled. ‘I’ll be back in one minute, promise.’
‘Okay,’
‘He’s never going to come back,’ Violet said in a singsong. I watched Hans walk backwards to the door, a pink fluffy door that matched the walls. He opened it and stepped out, his eyes still locked with mine. ‘And he’s gone.’ Violet laughed.
I rubbed my bracelet. ‘One, two, three, four, five…’
‘What are you doing?’ Joe asked. ‘Get up and run Iris.’
‘Nine, ten, eleven, twelve…’
‘I’m talking to you Iris!’ I continued counting the seconds he would come back, he won’t leave me too, he promised. Still counting, I looked down at what I was wearing to distract myself.
My black dress came with a built-in pushup b-ra, the sweetheart neckline giving enough plunge to expose a huge chunk of my chest. The bodice was tight and form-fitted along the top of my wa-ist, then gently flared out to give hide the prominence of my h¡ps. My eyes were made up more heavily than I was use to, a smokey eye-shadow and eyeliner to give me a fierce look and dark l¡psticks to add the finishing touch. Well, my makeup was ruined.
‘Fifty eight, fifty nine, sixty.’ The door didn’t open, Hans wasn’t coming back.
‘Told you,’ Violet tittered. The door opened, Lee ran in laughing with Hailey chasing her.
‘Give me back my shoes Lee!’
‘Be a good girl and apologize,’ Lee said stubbornly, hiding Hailey’s shoes behind her back.
‘May lightning strike that mouth of yours, give it back Lee! Don’t make me scre-m!’
‘Idiot, you are already scre-ming.’
‘For God sake! Must you two fight every single minute!’ My heart flipped with joy, Hans came back. I stuck my tongue out to Violet, mocking her.
‘She started it!’ Hailey and Lee shouted, pointing accusing finger and shoe at each other.
‘I don’t care who started it, just cut it out!’
‘Tell her to give me back my shoes!’
‘Lee, I want you to be Paige for the rest of the night so behave,’ Hans said exasperatedly Lee’s hand dropped, it was like something new overtook her. ‘Thank you, at least one of you should act mature.’
‘What is that suppose to mean? That I’m the dumb one?’ Hailey asked annoyedly. ‘What does everyone have against my intelligence? I don’t like books, fine, that doesn’t mean I’m dumb.’
‘Just forget about it Hailey,’ Lee said calmly, almost with a more mature tone.
‘Shut up Lee, who gave you the right to be the mature one? I’m the eldest,’ Lee tossed the shoes at Hailey, one hitting Hailey’s head and making a sound similar to a coconut’s. ‘Ow!’
‘See, knew you had a coconut head,’ Hailey snatched the other shoe and tossed it at Lee, hitting her too. ‘Ow! Hans, look what she did!’
‘You did it first!’
‘Because you are annoying!’
‘Both of you, shut the f-cking hell up! God!’ Hans shouted with frustration. Hailey frowned.
‘You shut up, I’m older than you.’ Hans rolled his eyes and walked to me.
‘You, keep quiet, don’t talk to my baby like that, coconut head,’ Hailey grabbed the other pair of her shoes and hurled it at Lee who ducked, picked up the other and struck a bullseye on Hailey’s stomach.
‘Urgh! Johnny will never love you,’ Hailey taunted.
‘Take that back!’
‘No,’
‘Well guess what,’ Lee said sharply. ‘Richie will never date you.’
‘Hans!’
‘The two of you better shut up before I call Phoenix in here and he starts yelling!’ Since Hans was already with me, I resumed my hugging job.
‘You don’t have to call that cricket, l-ips sealed,’ Hailey murmured.
‘As if you are any better,’ Lee muttered, glancing at Hailey.
‘Have you seen it? She has started again…’
‘Makeup crisis girls!’ I shouted, putting a stop to their childish bickering. Hailey gasped.
‘What happened? Your face is a mess!’
‘No need to worry my toilet brush, we are here to fix it.’
‘Who are you calling toilet brush?’
‘Do you prefer toilet sponge?’
‘My face,’ I reminded them.
‘Yes slave, fix her makeup for her,’ Lee said with a queenly pose.
‘Lee,’ Hans snapped.
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It was nice of the girls to have me over, in fact they insisted I start living with them instead of being alone at my apartment. I accepted but the problem was the sleeping arrangement for that particular night, I couldn’t sleep, I had a terrible headache from drinking, crying and dancing too much at the club. Lee, Hailey and Hans made sure I danced until my legs hurt. Now, they were fighting on whose room I would sleep in. Absolutely wonderful.
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‘She was my best friend before you came along so I have the right to have her over at my bedroom!’ Lee shouted at the top of her voice.
‘We are friends too so I also have the right!’
‘Iris loves me more than you!’
‘WNF moron, I don’t care!’
‘WNF?! That’s not a thing!’
‘As long as I said it, it is.’
‘Whatever, Iris is staying with me,’
‘Lee, don’t argue, she is sleeping in my room, not yours.’ I was hugging Eden, one of Hans’ monkey. He was strangely nice to me when I came, the other wasn’t.
‘Eden, they have been fighting for thirty minutes, help me,’ I cried in a whisper.
‘Ook, ook,’ he jumped down and ran out of the foreroom.
‘Iris, you have to decide, who are you going to sleep with?’ Hailey asked.
‘Can I sleep here? I’m really tired…’
‘Have you seen what you have caused?’ Hailey snapped, turning her face back to Lee. ‘She doesn’t want any of us because you were being selfish!’
‘Me?! What happened to you? We are both fighting for our right!’
‘You’re don’t have any right, she doesn’t belong to you.’
‘Nor you!’
‘God of mercy!’ Phoenix shouted, Eden was beside him. ‘You two are still fighting?!’ I looked away from the younger replica of Hans, he was just in shorts and his muscular chest really disturbing.
‘Blame Hadley, she won’t let me have my friend,’ Lee whined.
‘You idiot, you are Hadley,’ Hailey flared.
‘Shut up cow, who asked you,’
‘Enough!’ Phoenix shouted, his body rising and falling as anger and power radiated from his tone and glare. He looked at me, his cheerful troublesome boy glint completely washed from his eyes. ‘Where’s Hans?’
‘He went to bed early, he was really tired.’ I said gruffly, trying not to whimper at how scary he looked.
‘You two, your rooms, now.’
‘But…’
‘I said now!’ He roared. Lee squeaked and ran out of the foreroom, stylishly walking around Phoenix. Hailey didn’t run, just clomped out while lamenting to herself. Phoenix inhaled and ran his hand through his hair. ‘Sorry you had to see me like that, they can be immature sometimes,’ he said apologetically, avoiding my eyes.
‘Hadley is immature, not me!’ Hailey shouted from the stairs.
‘Immaturity is better than worthlessity!’
‘Dunce!’
‘Are you two still there!’ Phoenix shouted.
‘I’m going, I’m going!’ Hailey shouted.
‘Shut up Phoenix! I’m old enough to give birth to your mother!’ Lee shouted. I would have laughed hærd but I was too tired to.
‘Eden, take her to Hans,’ Phoenix instructed and ran upstairs.
‘He’s coming!’ Hailey shouted. They both shrieked with fright. I heard two doors slam shut.
‘Better stay in there!’ Phoenix shouted furiously. Eden pulled my hand. I wobbly followed him to the stairs and let him lead me somewhere. All I know was that I fell on something soft and heard Eden waking Hans up. I opened my eyes weakly when warm arms wrapped around me, my eyes landing on a pretty tattoo on his arm.
‘You have a tattoo?’ I murmured.
‘Shhh, sleep,’ he k-ssed my forehead like a father should and cuddled me into his arms. I sighed and dozed off, embracing the hot feeling. I woke up when I heard whispers, argumentative whispers.
‘No, that will wake Phoenix,’ is that Lee?
‘Let’s tie him up and drop him outside for taking our friend,’
‘He’ll wake up,’ Lee whispered.
‘What do we do now?’
‘I still have the frying pan,’ Lee suggested.
‘Lee, you can hit Hans with the pan, he might get hurt.’ Hailey protested.
‘He won’t die,’
‘No,’ I opened my eyes a little. ‘Push him off the bed,’
‘Where would he sleep?’ Lee asked.
‘On the floor,’
‘You guys know I’m not deaf, right?’ Hans sighed.
‘He’s awake!’ Hailey shouted. Lee wh¡pped Hans’ head with the frying pan in her hands.
‘Aaaah!’ Hans shouted in pain.
‘Lee, you have killed him!’
‘What? I panicked,’ Lee whined.
‘I’m going to kill you both,’ Hans mo-ned out in pain.
‘Eh, kill us in the morning,’ Hailey said and jerked her head towards Hans. Lee dropped the frying pan and yanked Hans’ legs. ‘Hold still or I hit you again.’ Hailey threatened. Hans sighed, still whimpering in pain. I watched them drag Hans out, using his body to mop the floor.
‘And stay out,’ Lee whispered before shutting the door and locking it. They did their sister h¡p bump before giggling and running to the bed. They plopped themselves at each side, throwing their hands and legs on me. ‘Goodnight bestie,’
‘Goodnight my better sister,’
‘So I’m a bad sister?’ Lee asked, ready for another round.
‘Just sleep,’ I whispered. For once, they listened to me, cuddling into me. Violet never slept with me but they did, they are my sisters. I closed my eyes with a smile, and for the first time in my life, I slept without having any nightmares.
To be continued.
Hans’ new plan, make Iris fall for him so she would care about only what he thinks of her. Is a good or bad idea?
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💋 Authoress Kemmy B. Gabriel 💋