“—everyone would take that as gospel.”
“Why would you say something like that?” I asked, scared.
“And why would you refuse?”
In an attempt to distance myself from him, I got too far away from the crowd. I looked around. We were by the stairs that led to the second floor, and nobody was around us.
Damn it, James had been right. I shouldn’t’ve given Connell an excuse.
“Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have judged your friends, but you can’t say something like that.”
“Yes, I can.”
I gulped, now pressed against the wall.
“No, hear me out.”
“No, I don’t hear anything.” He chuckled and pointed at the boxes that music was blaring out of. “Wait, I’ll hold you closer.” I caught myself trembling at those words, and I shivered again when his bearded chin grazed against my cheek.
“Connell?”
A familiar chuckle.
“So what do you say, can I bang your sister or not?”
James’s tipsy, amused voice reached my ears. That familiar sound brought me back to reality, making me feel safe again.
Connell’s face changed suddenly when he realized that James was with his sister and holding her tight.
“Is this a joke?” he spat angrily at the girl.
“What joke?” She chuckled, visibly trashed.
James seemed fully satisfied by Connell’s reaction, and to throw salt in his wound, he pulled the girl toward him and started making out with her so violently that he forced her to bend her neck to sustain that wild kiss.
If I was relieved by James’s presence a moment ago, now I felt like countless needles had just been stuck into the pit of my stomach. And the feeling got worse when she ran her fingers through his tousled hair, literally nauseating me.
Why did he let anyone do anything to him? Why didn’t he have a little respect for himself?
For a moment I hoped Connell would smack both of them.
“You’ll pay for that, asshole!”
Connell said that sentence while throwing a punch, but James quickly managed to avoid it. He walked away, only to hit a glass table that shattered onto the floor in a thousand pieces.
“Are you nuts? Why won’t you ever let me have fun?” the girl yelled at her brother. Connell went after her, and she ran away telling him to go to hell.
Watching Connell run after her made me breathe a sigh of relief. If nothing else, the scene had gotten rid of that insufferable pain in the ass for me.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw James doubled over and slipping into what looked to be a luxurious bathroom.
“Are you okay?” I asked him, staying a reasonable distance away.
“Does it look like I am?”
I stood in the doorway, but was close enough to realize it was a wound. The blood spattering in big splotches on the sink made me shiver.
“Show me.”
