Reliving the Nightmare

BRIAN'S POV

Breakfast turned out to be one of the weirdest situations I've ever been in. Maybe even weirder than the time I ate one of our roadies' toenails.

I somehow managed to end up sitting beside El and across from Lola which pissed me off to no end. I had zero desire to sit beside a whorish cheater over my beautiful girl. But that's the way it turned out. I sat quietly, munching my cereal and listening to everyone else's conversations whilst pondering on how I could expose El to everyone as the true skank she was without hurting Arin or Lola too badly. No matter how I tried to think, I kept coming up empty.

And it was killing me. My best friend was falling for a cheater who couldn't give two fucks about him, or anyone else for that matter. And I could prevent him from getting hurt too badly by telling him about her, but I was too selfish. I needed for Lola to stay in the dark about my 'habits' until I was sure she wouldn't leave me. I couldn't lose her for such a trivial reason.

But it did make me wonder: did El really care for Lola or was she just using her like she used everyone else? They seemed extremely close and Lola appeared none the wiser about El's cheating ways, but I couldn't be sure. I would make sure that Lola wouldn't get hurt by that motherfucking whore; if El even so much as put a toe out of line, she would be getting kicked out by me. I didn't give a fuck what she thought.

"Bri, hon? Are you ok?" Lola's sweet voice made me jerk out of my thoughts and focus on her concerned face.

"Yeah, why?" I asked her, forcing a smile.

She looked down at my hands and frowned, "Well it seems like you're trying to destroy this lovely table."

I followed her gaze and chuckled nervously. My hands had turned milk white from clutching the edge of the table so tight. I guess I was more upset over this while El situation than I'd originally thought.

"Just a little tense about the flight, that's all," I reassured her.

"What flight? What do you mean flight?" Lola's eyes turned huge and her voice rose to a panicked squeal. This time it was her turn to clutch the table in worry.

I looked at Matt and tutted, shaking my head. "You didn't tell everyone?"

He shrugged and got up to get more cereal. It crossed my mind that we were eating a lot of this house's owner's cereal and other food, but I honestly couldn't care less.

"You can share the details, Gates," he told me over his shoulder and five questioning pairs of eyes turned to me, curiosity gleaming from them.

"Well Matt booked us tickets to California. We're going home!" I announced grandly, sweeping my hands in a theatrical gesture.

They all hollered and whooped with joy and I got so caught up in their infectious enthusiasm that I almost missed Lola's quiet question of 'when?'

I laughed as Zacky grasped Johnny in a huge hug and replied, "It's eleven O' Clock now, so in about three hours. Isn't that right Matt?"

He shouted a confirmation from the kitchen and I beamed at Lola. She looked down at the table, her body posture screaming out uncertainty.

"I'd better go and get ready then," she barely whispered, then leaped up from her chair and fled the room, leaving her half eaten bit of toast behind.

I snatched it from her plate and bit into it, chewing roboticaly. Lola was upset. Shit. She must be nervous about leaving Scotland. We could always come back though? I shot El a glare and flicked my head in the direction that Lola had gone. El blinked slowly at me as a lazy smirk spread across her sneaky face. My eyes narrowed at her which just made her smile grow more. She looked almost predatory as she stood up to go and comfort Lola, still staring at me disconcertingly. If she was trying to scare me into submitting to her weird ways, it was bloody working. That chick gave me the fucking chills. She sauntered off after dropping me and Zacky winks, although I had to say that the wink aimed at me had looked a lot more psychotic than Zacky's had. Freaky bitch.

I rubbed my arms to smooth the goose pimples that had risen from El's creepy looks and attempted to focus on the guys' banter. It had just gotten interesting.

"I bet you couldn't," Matt retorted to Johnny, and I immediently picked up on his tone; he was trying to get Johnny to do something stupid that would make him look like an absolute dick. The shortarse would fall for it as usual though.

"Yes I fucking could! I'll prove it you losers," Johnny shouted at Matt, standing up violently and walking into the kitchen.

I shot the guys a confused look, but they just shook their heads at me and pissed themselves laughing. By their uncontained snorts and huffs of laughter, this was going to be good.

Johnny stormed back into the room, but this time he had a bottle of Smirnoff in his right hand. I rubbed my jaw and sighed; of course it involved alcohol in the morning, it was Johnny for fuck's sake.

"This'll show you fuckers, I'm not a pussy!" Johnny exclaimed emphatically, then he unscrewed the top off of the bottle and proceeded to pour a decent amount of vodka into his cheerios and milk.

By this point, I had joined the others in laughing hysterically at Johnny's idiocy. I mean, no one really cared if he could eat vodka mixed with milk and cereal with a killer hangover, but we each knew how to push his buttons so that he would think we did. It was always entertaining in the end.

Finished with pouring, Johnny chucked the empty bottle behind him and dug into his 18+ cereal. He took a huge spoonful and chewed it purposefully, staring at each of us in defiance. I kept quiet, waiting eagerly for his reaction. He managed about one minute of eating it before the heaving began.

"I think the milk's curdled," he mumbled, clutching his mouth as his shoulders shook with he effort of not vomiting.

This set us off and tears began to roll down my cheeks as I laughed at the heaving fucktard in front of me. He tried to shut us up by flinging cheerios at us, but that was about when he started vomiting. He leaned forward and puked into his cereal bowl, again and again.

My stomach was hurting from laughing so hard and my face ached from my ear to ear grin. Johnny fought through his vomiting and picked up his spoon. He let out a weak battle cry, plunged his spoon into his bowl and lifted it to his lips.
And then he fucking ate his own vomit.

"Right, I'm fucking out," I announced and I hurried out of the room, still laughing slightly at the jeering all aimed at Johnny. Eating a toenail was definitely not as bad as eating your own fucking vomit.

I jogged up the stairs and saw El coming out of one of the master bedrooms. I reluctantly walked up to her.

"Is Lola in there?" I asked her warily, pointing at the door.

El looked at me, her sly eyes never leaving my face. Fuck, this girl knew how to unnerve me.

"She's taking a shower. So unless you want to come across as a complete creep, don't go in there," El warned me, flashing me an evil smile.

Two could play at that game.

I shot her an even bigger smile, letting some of the hate I felt for her leak into my eyes and voice.

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind," I told her, then walked into the bedroom, shooting her the finger before slamming the door in her face.

I ignored her rude remark and walked into the en suite bathroom, where I could hear the shower running. I could see Lola's silhouette through the shower curtain; her head was bowed and her hands were running frantically through her. She was the picture of stress.

I grabbed a towel off of the rail and took off of my shoes and sweater, leaving just my jeans and T-shirt on. I pushed aside the shower curtain then screwed my eyes shut and wrapped the towel round Lola. She screamed in fright and hit me a couple of times before she realised who I was. Once I had her safely wrapped up like a sexy burrito, I lifted her out of the shower and sat down on the seat of the toilet, settling her softly on my lap. I had gotten quite a soaking from the shower and now Lola was dripping water onto me, but I had other clothes.

"What are you doing?" Lola asked me incredulously as she nervously fiddled with a wet strand of her hair.

"Comforting my girl,"I confidently replied, then watched as her face crumpled.

I put my hand on the back of her neck and pulled her head onto my chest where she promptly burst out crying. I rocked her back and forth soothingly, murmuring reassurances whilst she twined her arms round my neck in a death grip.

"Everything's fine, my Lola. You're going to be okay," I whispered in her ear and she sobbed harder.

"I'm going t-to miss Scotland," she choked out and the loss and hurt in her voice just about floored me.

I was such a knob. How could I not have realised how huge a deal this was for her? She was leaving her home behind and following me halfway across the world, when she wasn't even sure if anything would come out of it. How did I assure her that she wasn't just a fling and that I planned on keeping her for a very long while?

"I'm here for you, never forget that. I adore you, Lola," I told her truthfully, letting my care for her seep into my voice.

She tightened her grip round my neck at my statement, but lifted her head up so she could join her hungry mouth with my own. I tried to keep it quick and chaste, but as soon as I felt her soft tongue ask for entrance, I was gone. She swept in and we met in a collision of passion as her hands reached under my shirt and travelled over my chest and back. I groaned into her open mouth at the electricity she caused with just her bare hands and she bit down on my lower lip, eliciting another groan of pleasure from me. I slid my hands down from her hair and stroked her sexy curves through the towel. I felt as if I couldn't get close enough to her, and she appeared to feel the same as she ground down into my lap, massaging my groin with her pert ass. Fuck, if she kept this up I wouldn't be able to wait.

I tore my my mouth from hers and pushed her off of my lap before bolting out of the bathroom, leaving her standing in the bathroom.

I shut the door after me but called out to Lola, "Not your fault, Lola. I was getting a bit carried away. I'll see you downstairs once you're ready, ok?"

She let out a shy giggle and got back into the shower. I stood for a moment in the bedroom, letting myself calm down (or certain parts of me calm down) before leaving.

I had to muffle a shout of pure shock when I walked out of the bedroom and straight into El. She was standing out in the hall, her arms crossed and the perpetual smirk plastered on her face.

"Who's the creep now?" I hissed at her, trying my best to slow down my thumping heart. "What've you been doing, listening to me and Lola?"

"As if," she snorted. "I was waiting for you to come back out."

I shoved my hands in my damp pockets and stared at her warily.

"I just wanted to remind you of our little agreement," she simpered, her sugary sweet voice doing its best to hide the witch inside. She didn't fool me though.

"I remember it," I growled at her, pushing roughly past her to go back downstairs.

"Good. Because if you break it, the consequences won't be good for you," she laughed.

I pivoted on my feet and turned back to her, grabbing her small wrist in my hand. The urge to slap her was growing with each poisonous word that came out of her deceitful lips. But I restrained myself, knowing I don't want to give her anymore shit against me.

"Don't ever threaten me. I've been alive a lot longer than you and I've seen much scarier things than a seventeen year old girl who thinks she's clever. Fucking watch yourself," I told her, my voice sounding eerily cold and deadly even to my own ears. Her smile dropped for a second and I saw a flash of fear in her brown eyes before she covered it up with a high pitched giggle.

I dropped her wrist like it was on fire and stepped away from her. Then I went downstairs to join my friends.

Notes

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