AIDEN
She was feisty. Small, but feisty which was even cuter.When my mum told me she was getting married and I would be having a new little sister, all I could feel was dread. I guess you could say 18 years of being an only child had grown on me and I wasn’t ready to share that with some little brat.What my mother had failed to mention was that my “little sister” was my fucking age.As we sat to have our first dinner “as a family” she shot bullets into my skin with her eyes.“So, when’s the wedding?” I asked no one in particular, my eyes not leaving hers.“Next year, spring. Your mother wants to have the wedding with the blooming flowers” Eric said as he reached out to hold my mum’s hand.She looked nothing like her father, I mean they had the same piercing brown eyes but that was pretty much it, and she was much lighter than him. I didn’t mind Eric that much, and I didn’t mind their entire marriage either, in fact, I didn’t really care. My mum seemed genuinely happy and I was happy with that, plus I only had to stay with them for a year before I went off to college, but I could tell little Miss Firecrackers here cared a lot.Her eyes bore into my mum and her gaze felt like laser beams cutting through my skin whenever she looked at me.“Aiden, Ellie’s going to be attending your school from next week so please help her around.” My mum said softly.The last thing I needed was my “baby sister” following me around school like a lost puppy but my mother had a way of always convincing me. Softening her voice and her eyes, she knew I could never say no to her when she did that.“Fine,” I said reluctantly. Ellie rolled her eyes and rested her gaze on her food.***“Hey princess, are you ready yet?” I asked as I walked into Ellie’s room. She had her uniform on already, thankfully.“Can you fucking knock?! And don’t call me princess” she snapped as she grabbed her backpack.“What are you going to do, hurt me?” I mocked which earned me yet another glare.“Yes.”“Bold of you to assume I won’t enjoy every minute of it,” I said with a smirk.We had barely spoken to each other the entire week she lived in the house. She mainly spent her time in her room and anytime I caught her exploring the house, she would act like I was invisible and walk away from me.“Fuck off Aiden” she pushed past me. “Oh my gosh, she knows my name.” I sang mockingly. Her glare locked onto me, a silent storm brewing in her eyes before she stormed off.“You know you make it so easy to taunt you right?” I called out after her with a laugh.When we got to the car, she slammed the door shut in my face before scrambling to the driver’s seat and locking me out.“Okay Ellie, stop fucking around,” I said as I struggled to open the door, my keys were in the car too.Her face broke out into a playful smile as she watched me struggle. “Ellie c’mon, open the door,” I said banging lightly on the window.With a deep eye roll, she unlocked the door and went over to the passenger seat.“You’re hilarious,” I said sarcastically.“Oh, I know. You know you make it really easy to fuck with you,” she said with a victorious grin.“Oh, I didn’t know you wanted to fuck me Ellie. Gosh, you should have just said so.”Her face contorted into an unmistakable look of disgust.“I said fuck with you, not fuck you! God, you’re disgusting!” she said as she pulled her seatbelt over her body.“Good because I’m not sleeping with my little sister.”“I’m not your little sister!”“Oh, so you do want to fuck me?”“Oh my god! Aiden, would you just drive!” she hid her face with her hands but I could tell she was laughing underneath them.The firecracker could be broken. Noted.***“I can’t believe your dad’s actually getting married,” Kai said as he dropped his tray on the table.I swiped a French fry from his plate before making space for him to sit. Kai was my best friend and had been since we were in the first grade.“I can’t believe your mum didn’t tell you anything about your sister being in our grade, that's so messed up,” Ander said.“The whole thing’s messed up but hey, who can stop old people's love right?” I said with a chuckle. “And she’s not my sister.”The cafeteria door swung open and in walked Ellie. The poor thing looked lost as she scanned the entire room with her eyes before they finally landed on me. I immediately mouthed no, to which she responded with her usual eye roll.“Is that her?” Kai asked.“Dude she’s fucking hot,” Ander said with a laugh. An irritated wave rushed through my body, a current that clenched at my chest and coiled around my stomach but I played it off with a forced smirk.Ellie grabbed her tray of food from the lunch lady and plopped on the seat next to me.“You abandoned me.” She said simply with her arms crossed.“I’m not your babysitter princess.”“I told you to stop calling me that” She snapped, her eyes flashing with unrestrained frustration.“Are you going to introduce us or...” Kai broke through our mini glare.“Ellie, this is Kai and Ander. Jasmine and Ana are gonna be here soon so maybe you’ll have some friends to talk to and finally leave me the fuck alone.”She slipped me the middle finger before reaching out to take Kai’s hand. As their gaze met, a soft shimmer crossed Kai’s eyes. That knot was back in my throat again.“Nice to meet you, Ellie,” he said softly, too softly. A gentle hue of warmth flushed Ellie’s skin as she broke out into a small smile. That knot was beginning to suffocate me.Ander took her hand and kissed it which made Ellie’s face scrunch up slightly. “You’re as hot as Aiden described.”Her brows rose as she turned her head to me. That little shit, I didn’t even describe her, now she’s going to think I’m some pervert.“I didn’t say you were hot.”“So you think I’m ugly?” A mischievous smile grew on her face as she crossed her arms.Of course, I didn’t think she was ugly but I also didn’t want her to think I thought she was hot. Even though she was, god now that I took a good look at her, she was hot.Focus Aiden.“Piss off princess.”Jasmine and Ana walked in saving me from this painful conversation. I introduced them to Ellie and they seemed to hit it off pretty well. Well, Ellie didn’t look at them with absolute disgust at least.“You guys are still going to Jason’s party right?” Jasmine asked.“What party?” Ellie asked.No, no, no. If she wanted to come, mum would definitely force me to let her and I’d be stuck babysitting again.“Oh right, you’re new. Jason Bridger always has a party after each summer break. You should definitely come, it’s always awesome.”I didn’t realize when an irritated groan left my mouth causing all eyes to fall on me.“You don’t want me to come?” Ellie snarked.“Actually yeah I don’t. I don’t want to be stuck with your ass all night, so just stay at home.”Her face fell slightly, sending a pang of regret into me. I admit my tone was a bit harsh but oh well.“You two argue like an old married couple and I've been here for 5 minutes,” Jasmine said with a chuckle.“Dude, relax. You should come to the party Ellie, you’ll be with us” Kai said. He had that stupid glint in his eyes again.“Whatever,” I said as I got up and walked off. Before closing the door, I stole a glance at Ellie, her eyes were still locked on me with a muted frown on her face.Ellie“Please don’t run away from me. Please, Daddy, don't leave me with her!” I jolted awake, my heart pounding like a drum in the silence of the night. My wide-eyed gaze scanned the darkness of my room as I forced my breathing and heartbeat to align. The face of my 6-year-old self remained photographed in my mind. I couldn’t shake away her teary eyes and bruised body as she ran after her father, stopping only to watch as he drove further away from the house, leaving her with Satan herself. A part of me still resent my father for abandoning me that day with her. He eventually came back after a week but that look of horror on his face, him getting his keys, him yelling at my mother asking her how she could do something like that to me, me thinking all the torture was finally over, me thinking he would save me, only for him to drive off and leave me with her with no explanation, it all remained photographed in my mind. There was no “I’m coming back”, or “I’m taking her with me”, h
ELLIE“What the fuck are you doing?!” a familiar voice called out. The weight of Ander’s body on me was released before a heavy thud rang through my ears. With shaking eyes, I looked at Ander’s body on the floor with a furious Aiden on top of him. My body was still frozen in place as Aiden’s heavy fists met with Ander’s face. The sound of his bones cracking pulled me back into reality. “Hey, are you okay?” a gasp left my mouth as Kai gently grabbed my face. He placed a jacket over my body before pulling Aiden away from an unconscious Ander.“Are you okay? Did he hurt you?” Aiden rushed over to me. “I want to go home, please take me home.” ***Dad and Emily had gone to some gala and the maids were already in bed when we got home. Aiden carried me bridal style into my room and I didn’t complain, I just wanted to be home in my bed and far far away from the thoughts of Ander all over me. He placed me gently on the bed and took off Kai's jacket. “I’m going to kill Ander when I see
ELLIEI froze instantly, as I wondered just how in the world I was having that phone call. It seemed like I was still reeling from the trauma of having been close to getting raped by some fucking pervert.But then, it was happening to me right there. The one person I had been running from had finally caught up with me. It was quite a moment of truth for me as I was face to face with the one moment I was running away from.All the traces of the pleasure that Aiden had infused me with had suddenly disappeared in the heat of the fear of the moment that was happening to me so suddenly. Myriads of questions came into my mind, as I was simply overwhelmed by the heat of emotions that came from the reopening of wounds that I had tried to close with the bandages of time. But somehow she was about to have me all fucked up again like she had left me back then. The phone was almost falling off my hand as I was trying to get myself to come to terms with the fact that my past hadn't left me, it h
AIDEN“What are you still doing boy?” The sound of my mother's voice from behind nearly had me jumping out of my skin. There just wasn't any feeling more frightful than that was. “Mom…” I turned to see her standing with Ellie's father. Something about seeing Ellie's father standing beside my mother got me freaking out in no small way. “You frightened me…”“If you're frightened, then you have got to be up to something really suspicious…” My mother was perfectly displaying the one thing I disliked the most about her— her ability to know almost every move I would possibly make. She had studied me like a book, and knew all of my tendencies, almost making it hard for me to ever fool her. If I didn't act quickly and smartly, then I'll get fucked.“Well, I just couldn't sleep, and I decided to take in the view from the balcony for a couple of moments before I started feeling a bit drowsy. Headed to my room right now…” I kept the pace of my speech as relaxed as I could, as I couldn't risk
AidenI still had my eyes on the text I had gotten from Ellie, which had me wondering just how quickly things had gone wrong. Did I do something wrong last night?Perhaps, it was just the downside of a legend acting like a simp, by sending cute, little good morning messages. “Come on… this is serious, Aiden…” I said to myself as I discarded that thought from my head. I was just getting the shock of my life when I heard that Ellie had left for school before me. “Are you serious?” I asked, staring at my mother in shock. “How could she…” I contained my curiosity as it had the potential to expose me if I wasn't careful. My mother had a way of drawing inferences that never failed to make me shocked. “Is there a problem with her leaving so early?” My mom's intuition was already kicking in at that point. “Why are you so concerned all of a sudden?”“Nothing, really. I'm just shocked to see that she's already getting the hang of things so quickly. Just hoping she won't get lost on her way.”
ELLIEWho the heck was she? And why was she speaking to Aiden in such an endearing manner? I didn’t know if it was still the booze or just sheer jealousy. But then, why would I be jealous? He was my freaking stepbrother for crying out loud.“Ellie, just calm down for a second, alright?” Aiden looked like he wasn’t going to back off anytime soon. “What the heck has gotten into you lately?”“You wanna know what has gotten into me so bad?” I had lost coordination of both my words and my body as well. “Yeah…” Aiden maintained, still trying to keep his voice down in order not to create a scene right there and then. “Why don’t you go away, then I might just get better, because the last thing I need right now is having you around me,” I said, not knowing why I was so mad at him. Seeing that girl still standing beside him was making me even angrier by the second. Why wouldn’t she back away even though she saw that we were arguing? She still stood, staring like she was enjoying the scener
ELLIEThe three boys were coming at me with hostility in their steps. I couldn't see any way out for me as the fourth person was coming at me as well. Things were about to get even more fucked up as it looked like I was going to get. “There’s nowhere to run sweetheart. It's just us in here.” The ringleader of the boys repeated as they were closing in on me. My first option was to get something to defend myself with. But I just couldn't see anything in sight. It was almost looking like it was just a lost cause. “Come here…” he was closing the distance between us in a quite frightful manner, but I was able to get myself moving through the right spaces in between the rows of seats. Soon enough, my courageous spur of energy was snuffed out by one of the pervs who had closed in on me from the other side. Before I could turn, I felt one of them against my back. “Let go of me…” I let out, as I felt an annoying pair of hands come on my breasts. He squeezed with such voracity, as he was t
AIDEN“Put her down…! Now!” I let out angrily with a folded fist.Surely, a volcano was about to erupt within me as I watched Ellie being wrapped up in Kai's arms like they were a romantic couple that couldn't get enough of each other.The sight of them being together seemed to spell out the hopelessness of the dream I had of having Ellie to myself. There just wasn't anything that could be more painful at that point. “Aiden, could you just relax so I could explain everything to you?” Kai requested, being totally unaware of the volcano that was brewing up on my insides. “She was in danger and I just happened to be there in time to save her from those goons that tried to forcefully screw her in the basketball court.”Those words did little to water down the anger that nearly ate me up from inside. It felt like she was going to be his for life. There just weren't any words to describe what exactly I was feeling at the moment.I noticed the look in Ellie's eyes, which almost looked like