Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Six

When Chase noticed how unresponsive to him I was being he stopped and out of the corner of my eye I could see him looking at me, it didn't take long for him to follow my line of vision and I knew when he saw him too because he froze just like I did

I watched my twins face go from hurt when he looked at me to furious when his eyes made contact with Chase's. I didn't know what to say, no one did.

For a minute there was nothing, everyone stayed where they were, no one spoke, and no one did anything. We all assessed the situation and I felt horrible. I knew I should have told him, I'm not denying that we were wrong here, but it sucks that he found out this way.

We were for sure going to sit down and tell him tomorrow. I knew he would have been angry and upset we kept it from him, but not like he was going to be now. I didn't even know how to handle this situation; I don't even know how to begin to think about it.

If this were tomorrow, we could sit down calmly and tell him everything that happened, well not everything, but how Chase and I got together. It would be in a controlled situation and he didn't have to see us like this and he wouldn't have to see me half dressed.

"What the fuck is going on here!" Riley broke the silence and I flinched at his tone. Chase wrapped his arms around me instantly which only make it worse. "Don't fucking touch her." well it seemed the f bomb would be thrown around a lot in the next, well I don't know how long this is going to last.

"Riley calm down." I whispered and his eyes darted to mine. I recoiled at the look and my eyes started watering. Chase stepped in-between us so I couldn't see him anymore.

"So now you're screwing my sister, were all the other single females out there not good enough for you?" Riley yelled not giving either of us time to talk before he continued "I can't believe you would do this to me, both of you."

"Leave her out of it." Chase snapped and I think him defending me only made Riley more angry.

"Why, she's the one sitting here looking like a fucking slut in front of my supposed best friend." I gripped tighter onto Chase. I knew he was angry, but I never heard my brother refer to me in that way before, it hurt and I frankly think it was uncalled for. No matter what happened he didn't have to call me a slut.

I knew Riley would be mad, I knew that and was prepared for that, but I wasn't prepared for him to just refer to me as a slut and look at me the way he did.

"Enough." Chase nearly growled "You came into my fucking house without knocking and imposed on a private moment, you have no right to call her that and I will throw you out the front door if I hear you call Brylee any names like that again." He defended me some more.

Which is a good point; this was a private moment between the two of us. I didn't impose on one of his and Monica's and call her a slut for it.

"Maybe she should have some more clothes on!"

"Not if she doesn't want to. She's comfortable in this and if she wants to walk around naked that wouldn't matter either because this is my fucking house! You get no say in what goes on in it."

"You've seen my sister naked?" his fists balled and Chase held his ground.

Oh this was not going to end well. When my brother was pissed it was like Junior High or High School all over again. He didn't control his temper well. Chase stepped forward to Riley.

"I love her Riley, I know that you may not accept that but it's the truth. So for your question before, no, no other girl is good enough because they aren't her."

"Bullshit." My brother spat

"You don't get to tell me how I feel." Chase stepped forward again.

"So you're fucking my sister now?" he glared at Chase and then looked to me, he got his answer when I looked away from him. I couldn't lie to him anymore and I couldn't confess it either.

"You whore" he spat at me and my eyes snapped to his and my jaw dropped.

"What?" I stupidly whispered

"You fell for it; he's been trying for how many years Brylee! I thought you were smarter than this. He doesn't fucking care about anything but getting laid."

"That's not true." I shook my head because I knew it wasn't. I meant more to Chase than just sex.

"Yes it is! Who else were you giving it out to all these years?" he stepped towards me and Chase grabbed him and slammed him against the wall.

"I told you to watch it. You are in my fucking house and have no right to disrespect her like that." Riley pushed him off.

"How about you then? You're supposed to be my best friend! We had one rule and that was to keep your fucking hands off my sister. One rule!" he yelled at him again "But you couldn't even do that!

"And do you know how long I've been wanting to break that rule?" he asked "Since you fucking made it. And trust me, I tried to stay away but I couldn't."

"Bullshit. You could have if you tried harder. I can't believe you would do this to me!" and I got pissed

"Are you kidding me Riley? Everything isn't about you. I've lived by your damn rules long enough. I can't wear this, I can't go there, I can't see this guy, I can't do anything that you would disagree with. You were worse than dad! Chase and I didn't get together to spite you, we didn't plot against you, we did it because we want to be together, Riley."

"You're so fucking dumb sometimes Brylee" He rolled his eyes and I jumped down from the counter and walked over to him

"And how am I dumb?" I asked

"You really think he's going to be with you for very long? What are you going to get married? Be together forever? No, he's going to get tired of you and dump you on your ass"

"And why is that? Why do you even call him a best friend with how little faith you have in him and why say you care about me if you think I'm so fucking worthless." I stepped closer to him and he pushed me back a step

"Get the fuck out of my face." he glared and Chase wrapped his arms around me. I don't know if it was to comfort me or to stop me from slapping him. Riley never got physical with me before, it was just a small shove, but still. Riley always treated me like I was fragile.

"Don't put your hands on her like that again." Chase snapped at him. He glared at him and then me and shook his head with a twisted smile

"Mom and dad would be ashamed of you." and I couldn't stop my eyes from watering now. I was crying and I didn't care anymore. "Oh stop with the water works you good for nothing slut." My brother kept them going and I said nothing. "If dad could see you now he would wish he never had a daughter! You would be worthless to them. They would be ashamed that you."

"Enough!" Chase yelled and he held onto me tighter as I turned and cried into his shirt. Chase ran his hands through my hair and down my back as he spoke.

"That's enough. No matter how pissed you are that's low! How can you even say that? When you calm down you're going to realize just what you said and you can never take that back Riley, Never!" I sobbed, not just for this situation but because I missed my parents.

They will never get to give me their opinion on Chase and I. From everything we accomplished, they will never see it. My dad will never walk me down the aisle; never get to see me get married like Riley did, never get to see me have kids like they got to see from Riley.

I would be on my own from my mom as I planned my wedding, became a mom for the first time. I would never get to run to them with what Riley's saying and I'll never get to hear their advice on how to handle this. They're gone, and I missed them.

I was picked up as the arguing continued and Chase laid me down on the couch.

"Get out." He demanded as he held me

"I'm not going anywhere. I deserve answers" he yelled back.

"You don't deserve a damn thing after what you did." Chase stood up

"How long have you been fucking my sister?"

"Don't refer to it like that."

"Why not."

"Because you make it sound so dirty, like she's some whore I hired or something."

"Pretty much is."

"No she's not. I love Brylee and won't stand and watch you do this to her. Leave now." Chase warned.

"I'll leave when I get my answers."

"No, if you would have asked questions before, been civilized, then you would have gotten then, but you came in and attacked her and after what you said you deserve nothing from either one of us"

"She deserved what she got." And Chase stepped up to him and got closer

"And that's where you're wrong. You don't own her; she's not your wife or your property. She makes her own decisions and this was one we made together. She's not a whore for being in a relationship; she's not a disappointment for dating me. We didn't tell you straight off, but that doesn't excuse what you said to her. Now leave or I'll make you leave."

I was watching this all frozen and when Riley got back in Chases face. This whole situation was so high school. Riley was intentionally hurting me and they were about to get into a shoving match. Talking this through was obviously not going to happen.

And then Riley lost it. He lunged forward and tackled Chase to the ground. He straddled his waist and pulled his fist back to swing when Chase tossed him off and pinned him.

"Knock it off!" Chase said in exasperation.

"Let me go" Riley struggled against him but he kept him pinned.

"No, this is fucking stupid." At least someone was agreeing.

"Then let me go." Riley's face was bright red as he tried to get Chase off of him.

"No, you need to calm down." Chase was being as calm as he could

"Not if you don't let me go."

"If I let you go will you leave?" Chase asked curiously, stupid question, we all knew the answer.

"Yes" we all knew that wasn't true but Chase let him go anyways giving him a chance to just leave.

As soon as he let him go Chase was on his back and Riley had a fist raised high to hit him, before I could think I acted and ran forward and grabbed his hand. He swung his hand and it made contact with my face before my head made contact with the cabinets and then I fell to the floor.

The pain shot through my head instantly and I gripped onto the spot that made contact with the cabinet and then I realized that my brother had hit me.

He's never been violent before, especially with me. Even as kids, when kids argue and fight, he wouldn't hurt me, but now I felt the stinging and the bruise forming on the side of my face under my palm.

I watched Chase push Riley off of him and he came over to me and put a hand on either side of my head. "Baby are you okay?" he held my head in his hands and tilted it from one side to the other. I nodded and Chase helped me up. He seemed to forget about anything but me right now.

He put me up on the island and touched my face and I flinched.

"Don't touch her" Riley said and I narrowed my eyes at him as he reached for me. Chase pushed him back and towards the door.

"You fucking did this. Get out of my house right now." Chase was livid and his defense only made my brother angrier as he shoved him back.

"Get off me!" my brother yelled again

"No. You hit her! What's wrong with you? This isn't you! Until you can learn some respect for not only woman but your sister, your own twin, then get the hell out and stay away from both of us." I got up and walked towards the door where they were fighting again.

Well more like stumbled, my head was throbbing at this point. How do people get into fights and take all those punches, this shit fucking hurts.

"So you're going to choose him over me?" Riley asked me when he saw me

"I'm not making any choice; you're the one doing this, not me."

"You lied to me." he accused

"I know." I admitted. I knew we lied but this was too much. I didn't deserve his cruel words or him to hit me, I deserved for him to be angry but this was just insane.

"Why would you lie to me?" he asked with a look of hurt back on his face

"Do you not see what you've done, why would we want to tell you?" Chase asked him and looked away from me.

"How long?" he asked

"How long what?"

"How long have you been seeing each other?" he clarified

"A couple weeks."

"And how long have you been sleeping together?" his temper flared again and I stepped back towards Chase. If you would have asked yesterday, I would have said I wouldn't ever have a reason to be afraid of my brother, but now I'm terrified he's going to hit me again.

He didn't seem to even care about doing it the first time.

"Since Monica's birthday" Chase answered for me and instantly put me behind him when Riley advanced towards me.

"When were you going to tell me!"

"Tomorrow, I promise you it was going to be tomorrow" I was crying now, I just wanted him to know that we were going to tell him.

"Bullshit. You are dead to me" he said each word slowly and with so much hate and disappointment it made me cry again. I moved and walked towards him as he headed for the door.

I just needed to make some kind of contact with him, I needed him to wait and just understand that I loved him and that I really did love Chase and he really did love me, I just needed him to really listen.

I put my hand on his arm and he instantly turned around and in a blur I felt the impact and then I was falling again.

I fell back went tumbling towards the floor and couldn't break my fall and Chase couldn't get to me so I fell and my head hit the ground with a loud smack. I groaned in pain as I tried to get up. I looked around and everything was fuzzy around me.

All I could hear was yelling in the distance and a slamming door.

"Baby are you okay?" someone asked and I tried to focus on their face but it wasn't working.

"What?" I asked and they spoke again but I couldn't understand them.

"Shit" they swore and I was lifted and I just leaned back as someone put a cloth to my face and I felt the cold wind of the outside before the soft leather against my skin. I leaned my head against what felt like a car door and closed my eyes.

"Brylee, keep your eyes open." And I tried harder to do so.

My face hurt, my head was throbbing and I felt like someone punched me in the stomach.

I wasn't sure what hurt more but I settled for putting one hand on my head and the other on my stomach as I leaned over, like that would make it all just stop. I couldn't see anything around me because it was all out of focus and I hated it.

"Oh my god." I heard but I finally decided to stop fighting how tired I was and to just sleep "Don't close your eyes, Brylee!" the voice said again but I paid it no attention this time.