Reliving the Nightmare

♡BRIAN'S POV ♡

"Should I do it?"

"Yeah, man. Just fucking do it already!"

"Johnny, hurry up!"

Hushed mutters broke into my sleep and I was pulled gently into consciousness by giggles silenced by annoyed shushes.

CRASH!

"Fucking hell, motherfucker, shit!" I screamed as my whole body spasmed in shock at the huge noise created by Johnny purposefully dropping plates. My hands flailed as I tried to grab something to balance myself, but when I came up empty handed, I rolled off the sofa and smacked onto the floor with a painful thud.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck," I groaned against the unrelenting wooden floor.

The silenced giggles erupted into full blown, stomach clutching laughter, as I continued to moan out derogatory comments to the floor. I could hear Johnny's throaty chuckle joining the mix and I tamed down the anger that rose inside of me. Oh that short asshole was going to get it so bad. But I would wait until the perfect moment to make him pay for messing up my fucking face.

A perfectly familiar pressure was applied to my back as a certain someone kneeled on me. The shaking tremors from their laughs vibrated through my body and I knew in an instant who that sweet laugh belonged to.

My hand shot out from on the floor and I grabbed Lola's arm from where it was resting on my back. I yanked her off of my back whilst rolling myself over so I was lying on my back, carefully manoeuvring us both so that she was straddling my hips, staring down at me with those gorgeous big eyes. Much better.

I wrapped my fingers round both of her wrists and pulled her not so gently down to my face. "Did you find that funny, Lola?" I whispered, raising my eyebrows as she licked her lips and stated at me playfully.

"Let's just say that you looked absolutely ridiculous," she stated, a huge grin spreading across her face as she relived the moment I had nearly died of a heart attack.

But how could I be mad at that beautiful face? That beaming, shining radiant smile that lit up her delighted expression. Granted, it was at my expense and pain, but it was worth it to see her so joyful.

One thing marred her usual perfection though, and I smiled evilly, knowing what I was going to do about it.

"So I'm the ridiculous looking one, huh?" I asked her in a sickly sweet tone, relishing the smug look on her face. Oh, this was good.

"I hate to be the one to say it..." she sang.

I sprang up from the ground, picking Lola up with me so she was scooped in my arms. She let out a shriek of surprise but ultimately didn't put up much of a fight about being carried by me. I strode out of the living room, internally wincing at the colossal mess we had made of the house, and went out into the foyer bit. A large mirror hung on the wall and i swung myself around so that Lola was peering at herself in the mirror. It didn't take long for a piercing squeal to emit from her mouth, right beside my ear, and I smiled in satisfaction.

"Oh my god," she wailed, reaching her hand up to touch her face in disgust.

Her face was fine- apart from the streaks of back mascara ringing her eyes and making her look like a bedraggled panda. It was awesome.

"How could you let me look like this and not say anything?" She complained loudly whilst I set her down so she could inspect her face more closely. She turned to the rest of the group who had filtered into the hallway at her banshee like noises and frowned at them. "So could none of you have told me that I looked like a freaking panda?"

All of the guys stammered and looked at the floor, unsure of how to deal with this upset female. Matt however, cocked his head and placed his hands on his hips in a teasing manner.

"You mean you're not meant to have back rings round your eyes?" He gasped in mock surprise.

As everyone's laughter exploded for a second time, I stared at Matt, confused. Although he had been making fun of Lola, it had been in a friendly way, and the hate in his eyes had faded into that of cool respect. When had that happened? When had Matt suddenly started not disliking Lola? Whenever it was didn't matter, I was just relieved he wasn't going to be causing anymore bother for my girl.

I stroked Lola's waist and placed a tender kiss on the side of her forehead, which she leaned into with a cute look on her embarrassed face. "You look gorgeous as usual. Now stop stressing and tell me what kind of wild party you had last night that managed to mess up your make up so bad?"

She flushed pink and gave a sly look to Matt which he returned. Now I was intrigued.

"I kinda jumped into the pool, fully clothed," she admitted slowly. She waited until we had all finished whooping and hollered and then continued her story. "Zacky collapsed into the pool so I jumped in after him and got him. Matt helped me get him out then I just did some CPR on him and that was that."

Well shit. So that's where the bastard had gone to after we had taken the first couple of hits. He had sprinted out of the bathroom like he was on fire and I was too wrapped up in my own ecstacy to care where he had gone. What a pussy, he had fucking collapsed? How the mighty had fallen.

I looked at Zack as he laughed awkwardly as everyone jeered at him, scrubbing the back of his head in a nervous motion.

"Yeah well after a couple of goes with Brian, I was beginning to feel it," he blurted out, not realising his mistake.

I sucked in a breath and stared at him with horror. Lola tensed by my side and I barely moved as I waited for her to respond. I could feel El's wicked grin on me, glee practically exuding from her at my predicament. Shit, what the fuck would Lola say?

"Brian?" She said to me in a small voice, turning so she was looking up at me.

I kept staring at Zacky, not wanting to see her face. I was terrified to see what was written on it. Tense moments passed as everyone stared at us, quickly figuring out the situation. Arin and Johnny both gave me looks of sympathy whilst Matt's eyes burned holes in me, his face a mask of collected calm. Zacky mouthed 'sorry' at me and shook his head angrily at himself.

I sighed and prepared myself for the worst. I steeled myself then glanced down at Lola's face, expecting to see betrayal and hate looking up at me.

Instead I was met with only one emotion from her: pure and utter confusion.

"Brian, what does Zack mean, 'a couple of goes?'" She asked timidly, her voice unsure.

The ball of worry in my stomach loosened slightly as I realised I still had a chance to save this. Lola's naivety was all that was saving me now. Plus I know none of my boys would rat me out and El wouldn't say anything if he knew what was good for her.

I shrugged my shoulders in the perfect show of nonchalance and told her, "Oh Zack just means I was beating him around a little bit." Her eyes widened but I kept speaking. "Me and a couple of friends were just messing about and Zacky joined in. I think he got a few good punches to the head that messed him up a bit, isn't that right Zack?" I laughed, although it was strained and nobody else joined in.

"Yeah, you know me, always looking for a good fight," Zacky backed me up, and I smiled with gratitude at him, even if his lying skills were pretty poor.

Lola gave a nervous chuckle then looked at me. "So is that where you were all night? With other friends?"

Uh oh, she sounded hurt. She smiled to cover it up but I could still hear the sadness in her voice that I had left her in a house full of strangers all night. I was an absolute dick. But unfortunately I had to continue to be an absolute dick.

"Yeah, I was catching up with some guys that I hadn't seen in forever. They pulled me into some pretty rough games and kept on forcing me to stay," I assured her, the lies flowing smoothly off of my traitorous tongue.

She nodded in acceptance and patted my chest but the image of sadness in her trusting eyes was seared onto my brain.

"Who wants to raid this house for some breakfast?" Johnny shouted to break the silence that had fallen over the group. Shouts of agreement and calls of hunger flew into the air and confirmed a unanimous yes to Johnny's question. We all flooded into the kitchen where we began sifting through various drawer and cupboards.

I casually walked over to Zacky where he was rummaging through the fridge and slapped his butt, muttering a heartfelt 'thanks.' He gave me a thumbs up but didn't take his head out of the fridge, too intent on finding food.


I wandered round the huge kitchen, eventually ending up beside Lola, where she was trying to reach something from a cupboard up high. I let her struggle for a second, admiring the view from behind, before stepping forward to get it for her. I grabbed the box of cereal and handed it to her, and she rewarded me with a quick kiss.

She moved back to go and get something else, but she tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards. I blindly reached out and grabbed her arm, just as Matt appeared out of nowhere and grasped her other arm. We both steadied her upright then held onto her, neither of us letting go.

"I've got her, Matt," I told him firmly, eying his large hand gripping her slender wrist. He stared at me coolly before nodding curtly and letting her go, as he drifted off back to help someone else.

Damn, I never knew what was going on in Matt's head. One minute he was acting like an idiot to Lola and now all of a sudden her and him are friends? The only possible reason I could think for him being so nice, would be that he was trying to make it up to me for being so horrible to her at the Hydro. He had acted badly towards her first so he was probably trying to make up for it now. Fair enough.

I turned back to Lola and tilted her face up to mine, capturing her mouth in a hungry kiss. She melted into me and we kissed for as long as possible before the inevitable calls of 'get a room' were flung at us. We broke apart laughing and looked at Lola's grinning face and vowed to keep it as happy as that for as long as possible.

Even if that meant lying to her for a bit longer.

Notes

I'm feeling so bad that I haven't updated in almost a week! Sorry!!:/


Can I get some comments even though I've neglected you guys?!:/ What is everyone thinking about Brian still lying to Lola? He had a near miss with her nearly finding out but he managed to keep it a secret. But will it last?

Tell me, tell me , tell me!!! What do you all think?!?!?:):):)
Anyway, thanks for reading and all the comments so far!!!:):):)
You're all awesome! :)

L xxx