Ryan
I join my father and few of his friends in the other room since the living room is busy with the party. He is having a discussion with his friend whose name is Mr. Calum.
I hear a little of their discussion and it is about Elena. She’s giving herself more trouble the fact she is accusing my father. What is she trying to do? She doesn’t make sense, even Daniel has started going nuts because of her.
“She has lost it.” My dad is saying.
“She was drugged. She doesn’t know what she heard.” Mr. Callum adds. I couldn’t find her since she left the kitchen. I think I lost her in the crowd. I don’t want her doing anything stupid.
I hear she was on drugs, and I become curious. ” Did you drug her?” I ask, directing the question to Mr. Callum.
“I did, but for her to sleep.” He answers. The answer doesn’t sit right with me though, but why will he drug her?
“Ryan, he is Elena’s stepfather. He probably wanted her to relax. She’s been stressed of late.” Dad explains more, and I agree she has been stressed out of late. It was our doing. We’ve made life hectic for her since the day I found out that she had me framed.
“Drugs make people see and imagine things, I think that should be the cause.” If he hadn’t given her drugs, Elena is capable of always doing the worse. So when she started to accuse my dad, I don’t believe her one bit. Drugged or not.
He shakes his head and smile, “Maybe she needs a psychiatrist.” Mr. Callum says and a frown settles on my face.
“You want to take your stepdaughter to a psychiatrist?” It sounds odd so I ask.
” If I do that, it is for her good. With everything that is going on, I think she’s slowly having emotional damage and it is a great thing a stepfather should do for his daughter.” He explains. I don’t say a word as my mind keeps replaying the words she said to me back in the kitchen.
“They could probably put her on pills, or lock her up in an isolated room, if she persists on saying things that ain’t true.” My dad says, take off his suit. He is always in a suit and dresses responsibly. The party is still going on, but dad is here because of the meeting. Well, he always allows me whenever he is having a meeting.
“I think you should just hand her over to the cops and lock her up once and for all. She’s never gonna change.” I roll my eyes, and the two of them suddenly look at each other as though they don’t have plans to involve the cops. I wonder why because the cops are here to make things easy.
“There won’t be any need for that, at least, not now.” Dad tells me.
“We can handle her. I also can, she’s my stepdaughter and she lives under my roof after all.” He smirks.
“Since she is accusing dad of what he didn’t do, what do you plan to do to her now?” I throw the question to the two of them.
“I…” Dad begins to say when I hear my phone ringing in my pocket. “Who is that? Pick it up?” Dad demands.
The caller is Darius. I baffle at why he is ringing me because I know he is busy in his room with the ladies he got for tonight. None of our parents knows about it, but as brothers, we are good at keeping each other’s secrets.
I pull it out of my pocket, ” Hello?”
“Hey, Bro turn on the TV, on channel two.” He says in his heavy breath. He must have had several rounds. I’m just curious about what he wants with the TV when he is fucking the girls.
“Dad, could you pass me the remote please?” I request. He frowns as he looks confused. I also do, but I have to do as he says to solve this puzzle.
“What would I be looking for exactly? Is everything okay?” I ask Darius.
“You wouldn’t be able to miss this madness. Have fun while watching it. I’m also doing the same.” he says and hangs up. Oh shit! I breathe out as I pop my jaw again.
I switch on the TV and navigate it to the exact channel he told me. I turn it on as I see the news. Elena is about to give an information and report to give.
Damn! What does she think she’s doing?
” I am Elena Deloris, a final year student of Ivy prose high school. I’m here to give an information and report a highly important person in this society about his deadly deeds.”
What. The. Fuck.
I turn my face to see my dad. He is boiling in anger. His hands are unconsciously digging into the chair. This is a mess. Elena wants to ruin us, and this is the beginning of it.
“Stop her! Someone should bloody stop her!” he screams aggressively as he holds out to make a phone call, his hands are trembling.
“Dad, let her continue. There’s no need to stop her when she’s telling a lie. No one will believe her.” I say calmly. I look at Mr. Callum. He looks uneasy as well. I’m the only calm one in the room and I don’t understand the sudden tension.
“She doesn’t have to be right before we stop her! Once she mentions my name, people will begin to have doubts about me!” he yells, his breath is hot. I sit up as I grip the remote.
“A girl was raped, and a guy was accused of being the rapist. I don’t know how that came about, since he is a popular guy in school, they didn’t believe he was the one who raped her. Then someone framed me for doing a fake video of him raping the girl, whereas I knew nothing about it and we later found out that, the rapist in the video isn’t him but someone else who has a similar voice as him.” She begins to narrate.
“What?” I look over to the door, it’s Tyson who screams at the news he sees us watching.
“She’s going wild man. She’s so desperate to ruin all of us.” he says in shock. My father is sweating profusely. He couldn’t stand a second to watch the news. He gets up, grabbing his suit as he barges out of the room. I don’t flinch, as I have faith in my dad that he would do nothing as such.
” I found out who’s the real culprit. I know his secret now, then he began to threaten me.” She keeps her head straight as she speaks. I’m astonished at her braveness but I can bet her it will lead her nowhere because she’s accusing a powerful man who is even innocent on top of it.
I don’t want to continue to watch the nonsense, so I switch it off as I turn to Tyson. “Where is Daniel? Have you seen him today?” I ask.
He sits beside me. ” I haven’t seen him, bro.”
“Come on, get up. We need to find him.” I stand up swiftly. It is already a bit late and mom must be in her room already. Our housemaid would soon dismiss everyone to go home.
Since people are already leaving, locating my car wasn’t a big task anymore. “Get in my car, I will drive us.” It’s faster to drive in one car, as I tell Tyson.
Daniel has been drifting from us recently. We need to bring back our brother. As I hit the road, I pull out my phone from my pocket. I throw it to Tyson to help me ring Daniel while I focus on the road.
I hear the phone ring on his hand but no response. Is he fucking not answering his brothers’ calls anymore? I frown and hit the road harder as I drive at high speed.
“Could you track his phone? Do it now!” I order angrily. He doesn’t say anything as he begins to track his location. He tells me his location and I speed up, I don’t believe he would be there. I don’t want to believe he took her there.
“This is getting worse.” Tyson tells me with a grumpy face.
“We got to deal with him. He is a fucking coward!” I speed up, and in about thirty minutes we hit the location and get out of the car immediately.
As we run forward, we see some people coming too, making our pace slower. “Hey, I think it’s them. Elena and Daniel and some other people!” Tyson screams as he sees them.
“I will be back to continue this. I don’t care if your dad is a highly respected man or not.” I hear her argue. From that I can see the show has ended. They didn’t allow her to finish up or call the name of the person she was calling a culprit. And that could only be my father’s doing.
I smile as I stand. “You have no idea what you are doing, Elena.” I scoff as we reach her. I have a lot to say to her, but I don’t focus on her yet. I go to talk to Daniel.
“Just so you know, Daniel. I don’t need your fucking help! I told you I don’t wanna see you around me or my friends.” She yells at him with her first clenched.
“Are you proving to be a coward?” I walk to him and halt in front of him.
He says nothing but laughs at me. He begins to grin so hard, that it makes me angry.
” You are all bloody fools!” She hisses and walks out of us. I don’t turn to see where she goes but I hear the sound of her car.
I’m now with my brother and I need to correct his senses. How dare he? I wouldn’t mind if he is my twin, I would do anything to make him think healthy again.
” She is our mate. My mate. I do the fuck I want.” He sneers at me and I shriek in outrage. I raise a ball of my fist, attempting to throw it at his face when he catches it in an instant.
“I also want to teach you a lesson, Ryan. How about we fight? Bring your fucking payment and I bring mine…” He tells me, I throw my face to the side laughing. The money is not the problem. The beauty of it is who gets to be taught the lesson or whose senses get corrected.
“Deal. Fight at the sport complex.” Our father’s abandon building. He agrees with a handshake. Tyson is already screaming at us that we are going nuts.
This is what it could only lead to, brothers going nuts because of a girl.